I agree. Some hilarious comments.

Only if your team's name is Warrington

When were in our brand new spanking stadium while being fighting to make the playoffs at least we can say we've done it with youth.

Well we seem to be doing fine with the youth at the minute. Running fourth in the comp, with a possibility of catching third, maybe second. We're in the quarters of the Challenge cup. Doesn't seem to bad to me. I think it was Alan Hansen who said you never win anything with youth, I think Sir Alex and the lads proved that is not the case. Lets just wait and see how it goes before we cast off these youngsters as not good enough to wear the red Vee

I was about to disagree with you and then spotted the Flannery re-signs thread.

Now I can understand your thinking

Physical maturity plays a much bigger part in RL, though. Too many kids (unless they're physical freaks) in one squad mean they'll just get pushed off the park.

Am I correct in thinking that who ever you sign from now on has to be British, because you overseas quota for next year is already full?

I think so - Perry/Lance/Laffranchi/Soliola/TP = 5 non-fed.

Flannery/Meli signed pre-08 so don't count on the non-fed quota.

Anyone know what the 2008 non-fed cut off date was? TP signed in April 2008 I think. If TP is exempt, then we have a space, otherwise we're done.

I hope we're done anyway - 7 is 2 too many in my opinion and the sooner the exemptions all expire the better.

Other than Griffin I'm not aware of any "decent" British props available for next year. So if he does indeed choose Leeds over yourselves, I'm intrigued as to who you'll sign, if anyone.

Because looking at Saints squad next year, your certainly short a prop IMO.

They don't need a game breaker, we just need someone who's heavy and hard working to carrythings on for 40 minutes a game. That why I mentioned Dowes, who's OOC.

Perry/LMS/Laffranchi/Clough are our front 4 and we certainly need someone else alongside Magennis/TP who can step in.

Starting pack and bench still v strong IMO, but sorely lacking after that (sound familiar?!)

Perry
Roby
Laffranchi
Soliola
Flannery
Wilkin

LMS
TP
Clough
Moore

2 or 3 injuries in the pack would cause problems.

Dowes is not a bad call. Does suffer from quite a lot of injury's though. Is that a quality you look for in new recruit's?

A little underwhelming if anything though after losing Graham to the NRL and with it being your maiden season in the new stadium.



Yeah you right you've no real depth after that. Like you say good starters.. Correct me If I'm wrong but isn't Laffranchi a backrower as opposed to a prop?

When I read that you resigned Flannery I was a little mystified. But having seen your short on numbers as it is, I can fully understand why he's being kept on.