In other news, Anthony Thackeray has re-signed at Widnes. So much for him having agreed terms with us as some would have us believe.

Good because he's rubbish leave him where he is.

got a feeling bulls just used again to bump up his wage with widness plus think we will be in for a better stand off then thackeray anyway

Agreed.

Surely with Langley, Hall, Elima, Whitehead and Donaldson - not to mention the fact that Worrincey might still be here and there's Olbison and Addy and Walker can play there, I can't see any need for more backrowers.

I will be quite annoyed if we get Sibbitt and can't afford a half or another centre.


Edit: which is what Redeverready said in only eight words.

I wouldn't be too disappointed to see us get Matty Smith as cover for the halves. And if we do get Pryce & lose Orford then he wouldn't be a bad option.

Just another name (who is OOC I believe)

You believe wrong.

Smith has signed permanent deal with Salford for next year.

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Well no chance of that then, unfortunately.

Sibbitt will be announced on Saturday.

As long as Worrincey goes and it doesn't inhibit us making other signings then I can live with it, but he'll have more to prove to us than any other signing so far.

Although Sibbit is hardly a player that's going to sell tickets or anything, I think it's fair to give him a chance first to see what he does.

Also remember he played centre for a long time before moving to the back row (and I think he's played a bit of prop too), so he does provide cover for more than one position. If he's coming in as cover, rather than first choice, which I suspect he is, it might not be quite as bad a signing as everyone's first reaction will suggest.

I'm at a loss to explain any new contract for Worrincy though. Sorry, he's had his chance to impress and failed miserably.

One of our biggest problems has been a lack of squad depth. When players got injured, we had nobody who could in to replace them except for going straight to the academy who weren't necessarily ready for too much game time and need time to adapt. It seems to me that Potter is trying to address that issue and make sure we have some cover that has SL experience. The way it's looking, there's only the halves that we don't seem to have much cover for now. And perhaps that's in announcements still to come.