Who mentioned signing someone now? The (big) question is a long term one. Do the sums. Right now we have an excellent pack. In order to maintain it we either buy in players of the same standard or promote - with the same potential - from within.

Whilst we have plenty of excellent backs making their way through, our forwards are less impressive. At this moment I do not see a potential GB youngster in any of our academy forwards. Which means for the next two or three years we're not going to be exchanging like-for-like. Our pack will steadily become weaker.

To counter this we have no option other than spending. If we don't we don't win anything. Simple as that.

It used to before this spoiling around the ruck/floor! That killed us at halfords last week and Hull KR earlier in the season.

I'm not one for panic buying but i really believe we need to bring somone in!

is that why your chairman has been texting Andy COley?

Our chairman doesn't text anyone. He has a secretary to do that sort of low stuff.

whereas IL would fly to austrailia for two weeks and be told to "rack off" by everyone he approached

Interesting that Leeds have chosen to take a punt on young props Jay Pitts and Kyle Amor for next season. I'm not suggesting they'll be anything spectacular, but when you consider the likes of Burgess and company already coming through, their pack could be nothing short of immense.

Meanwhile, ours seems stuck in reverse.

Do we ever look to the Championship for potential?

Luke Burgess, Jay Pitts and Kyle Amor result in a pack that "could be nothing short of immense"?

Who's "Burgess and company coming through" anyway? I can't think of anyone particularly handy coming through in the forwards at Leeds and their academy/reserves are poor.

There's little to suggest Pitts and Amor will be any better than what Saints have in reserve.

Wilkin, Gardner, Higham . . .

Worrall is a cracking kid. Plenty of size and mobility. And if reports are correct there's money in the pot to strengthen. Academy results aren't a reliable indicator of quality, anyhow. I've seen championship winning academies produce few first team players and mediocre ones sending up two or three belters.



A chance of a good player is better than no chance at all. And it's not like we're producing great props at this moment. We aren't.

Kyl;e Amor played for Wigan reserves last season (it may have been the season before) and looked very good playing centre.

How has he managed to "grow" into a prop forward in such a short space of time?

I wonder why we are not. Why have we grown some talented halfbacks, too many of them it would seem, but can't grow a prop? (That is probably a rhetorical question but someone may be able to answer it!)

We've produced one more recently than any other team has to be fair.

Maybe its to tough for the lazy youth of today, they would much prefer the glamour of being a ball handler instead of grunting the ball up and getting smashed around time N time again... this youth isnt like the youth in the days when winter was winter, and summer was still winter.

LAZY YOUTH

Yes, I thought someone would have the answer.