With all respect mate thats balanced at best the three quarter line is still not enuf, glenn hall cud go yet, flannery and meli will come in, addy aint a stand off, more a back row forward who is doing a great job, lemme give u a better idea:

1 Kearney
2 Ainscough
3 Sykes
4 Walker
5 Meli
6 Bosc
7 Orford
8 Scruton
9 L'estrange
10 Lynch
11 Elima
12 Flannery
13 Langley

14 Godwin
15 Whitehead
16 Donaldson
17 Dowes/Hall (IF HE STAYS)

18 Kopczak
19 Worrincy
20 Halley
21 Crookes
22 Platt
23 Addy
24 Wardle
25 Olbison
26 Southernwood
27 G.Burgess
28 T.Burgess
29 Sculthorpe
30 Finnegan

I think that is a far better team and much realistic which ulitmately will pull fans, probs up to the salary cap with that!

What do people think?

Of course Addy is ready.

addy is ready
he is a loose forward because of his size but he plays pretty dammmmmm well in the halves considering he doesnt have an experienced pair in the halves atm (sykes)
with orford he will thirve and hopefully form a deadley partnership........................
IF and a big if he is played at 6 next year

i agree but would go further, as I said last off season, without two good halfs we can forget it. I thought we had one good one in orford and a potential good gamble in kearney. As it turns out kearney is better at fB for us and Orford missed half the season so the season went with him.

Same this time, we should have one good half with Orford, we have a potential good half in southernwood, we have cover with Addy/Kearney/Sykes...but we need an actual creative stand off...Recruitment starts and ends there for me again this year.

papers in france have stated that elima has signed for us.................nothing at all in UK papers or from the club yet

Totally agree. Addy has done well for a 19 yr old loose forward and perhaps would be even better a year older with Orford beside him but his defence is suspect (see Clint Newton) and he's not quick enough to be one man further away from the ruck. Southernwood will have a full pre-season to put weight on and get stronger. Donno looks a more ball handling loose forward than Langers but is still very young.

Hence, an injury to Orford would leave us with no recognised half back aged over 20 and if we're serious about challenging the top 4/5/6 then that's a hopeless situation. Elima, Ainscough, Walker are all better than we have but a stand off is essential with a good quality prop.