I do agree that we look to need another senior prop as not only have we lost the likes of Boof, LMS (possibly to 2nd row) with Sia & Manu also going, we've lost a whole lot of experience and knowledge from this pack, how many years between Boof/Sia/Manu went with them?

However, I disagree that you can't play a 19 y.o. for a full season if they're up for it. Lets not forget, not too long ago at this club we had a certain Mr Graham playing full seasons from the age of 19 and did it very well for 7 years and look where he is now, being voted as the best prop in the world!! I think Thompson could enjoy the same kind of success if they moved him to prop.

Think I'd have hall before any of our wingers to be honest. One dropped ball over the line doesn't make him bad.

Only need to look at Hall try scoring record for club and country to show what a top class quality winger he is.

I think the fact we're all discussing the squad and saying we possibly need a prop or a three quarter suggests we're in a very good position next season.

The squad has a very good spine with lots of size in the pack, good halves and a young backline. We also have a very flexible squad with a number of players being able to cover different positions.

We could maybe do with another player to add a little bit more depth but with the likes of Thompsion and Richards becoming 1st team players the next conveyor belt of talent like Savelio & Fozard will be looking to push their way in.

Pretty much agree with the above...

Of the players we have lost, Gardner, Beaumont & Clough & Forster (plus other young players) were non-existent to us in 2014, McDonnell was only ever short term, Laffranchi was effectively already replaced by Richards at end of last season, Soliola has been replaced by Vea, Manu is effectively replaced by Thompson (bearing in mind Wilkin & Flanagan will also be competing for back row spots again next year & LMS hopefully moving there permanently) and Wheeler is effectively replaced by Burns (with Lance covering the "utility" tag) which IMO puts us stronger than last season (Soliola aside).

My only (slight) worry would be that we need another prop, as we currently have Masoe, Amor, Walmsley & Richards as our first choices, after that we will be relying on Walker/Hand or moving a back rower such as Thompson/Savelio/LMS up to prop as cover which wouldnt be ideal...especially if we picked up a couple of injuries (Amor & Masoe both had injuries last year and were missing for parts of the season. a Wigan's pack looks a lot stronger than last year with Tautai, Mossop & Patrick added to their front row, with plodders like Dudson being released and I would like to see us have a similar depth & competition for places in the front row like we have in pretty much every other position. That said, would rather see us wait for the right player to become available than panic buy for the sake of it.

Looking at Wigan's signings, they must surely need to shed some players off their books and a year's deal for Scott Taylor could be a good addition for us if we could get him?

I think we are pretty much well covered for short term injuries next season, if we don't suffer as much in previous years then it gives us the chance to rotate our squad a bit and give more game time to Greenwood, Sav, Charnock and Hewitt.
We are in a decent position with LMS and Thompson moving up to the front row if needed with Lance, Dawson and maybe Wello covering in the backs.
For me we will miss Manu's unpredictable style of play, with Walsh and Burns I can see us being a bit more structured, if we only have half the injuries of last season I can see us going very well for 2015. Saints and Warrington are my top 2 next season.

If we can rotate the front row without affecting the back row then I'm more than happy for the next gen kids to be brought through. I guess the easiest thing will just be to bring lms back into the front row and bring Flanaghan or greenwood in ...

Does anyone know which kids are being brought through to first team next year?

(Also not convinced by Warrington being top 2, I don't do predictions but on paper I'd say Saints and Wigan are so far ahead of the rest it's scary...)