Looks like a smart bit of recruitment.

Butler- Fleming played for us last year. He was very good going forward and is quite strong. However, he used to make some defensive brainfarts which is why we didn't keep him. I do however think that giving him a consistent run of games will get him up to speed as he came to us with a knee injury and never really got into his stride.

Brown has retired? Alex Brown?

Not a lot wrong with this signing in my opinion, quality player that needs game time/wants to play.

We’ve just lost one of the signings Kear brought in to add competition for places (Brown) so this puts us back in the same position or arguably better.

If he enjoys himself and we want him to stay we can extend the loan. If it doesn’t work out Toronto can have him back.

I see Dan King now has a picture and squad number on the website. Andrade announced on social media himself that he has signed and Burnett got a line in a T&A article about a different subject. Does anyone know why the club are not announcing these guys as signings/squad players?

Watched Oakes in the recent reserves game against Keighley, their side was fairly poor but we were looking to find him early and he had a fair bit of joy down his side. I'm looking forward to watching him next Thursday against Wigan reserves, coming up against a bit better quality in either Forsyth or Higginson to guage where hes at.

On the TW agreement, I cant see Kear being told what to do by them. I'm sure he has the final say and will only take from them if it is of benefit to the team and not TW. Doesn't strike me as a yes man

I think it's wrong that smaller clubs are dictated to by bigger clubs about playing players and dropping there own in order to satisfy. Look at York tom Sheens dictates what happens there

I believe this is why Davies isn't playing.

This deal makes even more sense now. Toronto have just signed Chase Stanley, and had Gary Wheeler back from injury last night.

You do have to wonder why they even signed JBF in the first place.

Cos they have too much money. Sorry to say this but players going there are chasing the money.

Of course they are. And I have a suspicion it will bite them on the backside eventually in the same way it is doing Leigh. Players more bothered about the pay day and don't give two sheets about the club.

I didn't see anything from Butler-Fleming today that made him seem a better option than Ross Oakes

Agreed and Ricketts should be pushing the wingers close with a Hat-trick mid week. Fortunately for them though Grant picked one up today and Ethan hasn't done anything wrong.

JBF should be given his chance to prove his worth, however.

I'm still not convinced on Oakes for reasons highlighted earlier.

I only saw bits of the stream today and not the whole game. While JBF didn't stand out in what I saw, he also didn't show a massive weak spot like Oakes has at times. And he's not as "heavy" as Lee Smith who he replaced. I'd be happy to give him chance to gel into the side before I judge him one way or the other.

Hard to judge from just yesterday's game because he never got the ball in space. None of our backs did because we barely managed to string a set of passes together. Grant's three tries were all from kicks. Gibson is completely removing Ryan as an attacking threat in our side through his poor centre play.