For all the talk of us being years behind I think three quality forwards stops the bleeding pretty quickly. At least we'd then be in a position to assess and develop our young backs accordingly. I've got nothing against Eseh, but I wouldn't target him as part of the solution unless Sangare or Goudemand leave. Please, no projects this time.

Any significant improvement doesn't have to take years. Hull KR finished 8th 2 seasons ago and are now top.

This exactly we seem to keep putting the power in the wrong place.

It has, and recognised as a failing, hence Blease coming in? He comes with some credentials, it's inconceivable, isn't it, that it hasn't been worked through?

Ollie Leyland from London would be a good signing.
Not seen him have a bad game the times I`ve seen him play.
Think he`s in his early 20`s and much better than Jack Sinfield from what I`ve seen.

He should be, he's 4 years older

going to HKR isn't he?

I believe that's his brother, who plays hooker

ok mate,cheers

If we cant get / decide against Eseh, Fenton Rodgers from Hudds could be a shout.

Got genuine size, runs it in hard and has looked pretty decent in their last cpl of outings on Sky.

This shows just how bad our recruitment of the head coaching role has been since Brian Mac left the club, and also the players that they have then signed during their head coaching role.

Our transition started after the 2015 season IMO and although we won a GF in 2017, we also had to endure 2 seasons in the "middle 8's" either side of this triumph

So our transition period is now in it's 8th year,which is absolutely ridiculous for a club with our resources

Both Leigh and Salford have been far better sides recently than we have been and that is despite them not having an academy system to feed players into their first team squad

So in reality these 2 clubs have made good head coaching choices and that they have also recruited players from rival clubs and this has enabled them to finished above us

Spot on

At what point should the club be pushing a deadline for Arthur to make a decision one way or another.

With the season most likely being over, we need to start planning for next season and beyond in terms of coaching team (assistants are also off contract) and players. I imagine Arthur would be a big draw for players moving from the NRL who he has previously coached, but we also need to move on quickly if he isn't planning on sticking around.

As a side note, I'm interested to hear his comments about SL. He's been really surprised by the facilities and professionalism of the club. It makes you wonder what people in Aus really expect coming over here.

Agree on the timescales/planning. We cannot be running around 5 minutes before pre season, but surely Blease is on this.

On his comments, is there a link?

But still only just turned 23 so has bags of potential and isn`t doing bad now in a bottom of the table team.