I'm very pleased with his signing and like you have stated he will bring some great attributes that will complement our squad. Solid defender, good kicking game and a natural half back. Having natural playmakers at 6 and 7 next year will reap benefits for the club. Good signing in my opinion. Look at Blake Green at HKR, injury prone wasn't a consistent performer there in my opinion, signed for Wigan and has become one of the best 6's in the league. Too many people are castigating our signings before giving them a chance to shine.

Very happy with the Burns signing. Having two specialist halves who know each other so well is something I'm quite looking forward to. As for our team next year, I'd go with:
Lomax
Makinson
Turner
Percival
Swift
Burns
Walsh
Amor
Roby
Walmsley
Vea
Jones
Wilkin

Hohaia
Masoe
LMS
Flanagan

Plenty decent backup with Wello, Dawson, Richards, Greenwood, Savelio, Thompson, etc. Still hoping for another forward to come in though.

Just to throw a couple of stats in there too to see how he compares to other stand offs in SL (I didn't include Green as he has missed a fair chunk of the season):

Tries - Burns 3 Brough 3 Brown 12 Sneyd 6
Try Assists - Burns 21 Brough 31 Brown 24 Sneyd 30
40/20 - Burns 4 Brough 9 Brown 1 Sneyd 1
Tackle Busts - Burns 78 Brough 58 Brown 31 Sneyd 56
Clean Breaks - Burns 9 Brough 11 Brown 7 Sneyd 11
Offloads - Burns 38 Brough 20 Brown 14 Sneyd 11

Playing for the worst side out of the 4 in question, the stats don't look bad at all.

On a good day, Turner's a great player. he just seems to puntucate them with horrors, much like LMS, much like Saints.

As Percy has developed, he seems more and more like our star centre. I think its much more likely that Turner will play centre and Jones will(should) play 13. Jones at 13 should be able to combine the high defensive workload that you need somewhere in your back row with a dynamic pseudo centre attacking game outwide - in a similar manner to when Darren Smith was here. Leaving the other two back row slots to be filled by bigger lads.

I'd go
Lomax
Swift Percival Turner Makinson
Burns Walsh
Amor Robes Walmsley
Vea LMS
Jones

Hohaia, Masoe, Thompson, Savelio/Greenwood/Richards/Flash/Wilkin/Any new signing

I've got to say that once you dilute Wilkin's versatility, he becomes a lot less valuable to us. He's too small and nice for a top club back row in the current game.

Lance Hohaia
8 tries
12 try assists
11 clean breaks
31 tackle busts
11 offloads
0 40-20 kicks

From 2006

Leon Pryce
10 tries
12 Try Assists
25 clean breaks
58 tackle busts
59 offloads
0 40-20 kicks

There's literally no pleasing you is there?

That's what he is known for, which should complement Walsh well as Walsh isn't as keen on taking on the line (although he does do it to great effect when he chooses to). Walsh would be the organiser and provider; Burns the feisty go-to man.

You can never describe Turher as "great". He's nowhere near great, he's at times not even average and for 60% of the year been utter rubbish.

His defence is woeful. He's half hearted. He just plods in and hits the ground but every few month he churns out a decent performance but that is by no means great.

If a decent centre came available like Marsh at Widnes I'd have no hesitation in swapping him

Maybe I exaggerate, but he's done some very good things in the red vee, on occasion. That's the most frustrating thing about him, for me.

I like Turner.

I would have dropped, him early when he was poor, just like we did with swift. But I would not call him poor.

I wasn,t just going to say the same thing, we were justified to call him and LMS poor at the beginning of the season. But since we,ve had all these injury dissruptions both Turner and LMS have had to play different roles and are very prominent in how we have adapted to our different play.
In fact I would say Turner looks as though he is enjoying his rugby, gone is the frustrating search for form and now he is just getting on with it and is now looking a proper team player.