I think it's obvious to everyone we need signings all over the park. If you could pick one player from SL and one from the NRL (try and be realistic) to bring to Saints who would you pick.

Gareth Ellis

Gareth Widdop as well (he can carry Gareth's bags through customs)

Mickey Paea - Hull KR
One of the Morris brothers or Uate on our wing from NRL

All over the Park???

He means pitch

We need a prop (or 2) and a pukka scrum half would be nice too. Hardly signings needed "all over the park"...

I was messing.

I think we are in dire need of two props and scrum half. I'd also like a good centre, not a lad been thrown in at centre who was a stand off but a centre that can make a break and give to his winger.

I was having a meal in the hospitality suite last week before the Catalan game and they had Paul loughlin as a guest speaker and I was just thinking he's just the player we could do with. Top class centre!

Wheeler doing a great job at the moment and I like him but he's not a out and out centre.

Well we will have to differ.

Still not seen the match in full, but out attack did not seam to be struggling too much, neither did the half backs
Wheeler to managed an intercept and a Meli barge over.
After watching the Catalans tries there was a lot of ball going to ground, that just seamed to bounce the right way.
TP seamed to go well but apart from that, not much else from the Props. In that senario it's amazing we where so far ahead.

I can conceed at present it looks like we are 2 props light not just the one. Glad we kept TP. But apart from that the rest of the propage are yet to impress.

Agree on all points, but there simply aren't very many Dobbins around these days. I think our current centre options are realistically as good as they could be and as good as practically every other team in the league overall. Prop/SH are much higher priorities - Meli/Wheeler/Shenton would be vastly more dangerous if they got a pass on the move from a #7 every now and then...

Im ok with shenton and wheeler but in a ideal world I'd love a centre like loughlin, he was the perfect centre.

We desperate for two props and a good experinced scrum half.

It wasn't and they weren't. Our forwards were the problem. They weren't taking the ball forward with gusto, shall we say, and they were lazy in defence too, some of them. We need an aggressive prop or two who will make yards for us. Perry should have been that man of course but so far he's been a bit wimpy really. But I'd go for a prop if I could only choose one and had to choose for this season.


That was far better than any barge over Meli has ever done. It was very courageous and he spun around to protect the ball and give himself more momentum. Meli just uses his weight and runs forward. He could be a fine prop except that he would go missing in defence.

I'd have Ellis in a heartbeat. He'll probably go back to Leeds, but if many NRL experts still think he is the best second row in their competition and Wests felt like he was worth at least another year, he would still be brilliant in our league. If a player that good becomes available I think you'd have to be mad not to be in the mix for him.

Plus, he's bigger than most of our props anyway.

IMO we need a winger, left centre, a scrum half and 2 big props. I'd say 5 out of a starting 13 is pretty much all over the park.