He might be okay in reserves

I'm more interested in the FT deals TBH. Sam Hallas good start. When i was told, i was the same of "Jesus, another awful player" But at the end of the day, we're in L1, so we're going to have rubbish players. If he ends up being our fourth best prop, we're in trouble.Have to see what the end squad is. If Mendeika's, Macani's names are in there...

I was told Mendeika wants to leave but nobody wants him.

Davies is very poor IMO. I hope recruit better than him for next year.

But we are looking at players who would do a job in that particular division, not neccsarily who we would pick given a free choice and a fantastic budget. At the risk of starting a frenzy, I name two who I would have if we could get them, based on the same reasoning. One would be Paul Sykes/and or Murrell, who can still do a job, lead the backs as well as game manage. The other would be Richard Moore, a big bugger off type of prop, who would add some steel and nous and would look after the forwards.

So, there let the frenzy begin. Who would you choose?

All good choices Beechwood. We need to put together a side that doesn't get bullied and has plenty of nous to guide the young lads. So we need some experienced heads that can still do it in the spine positions. Moore would be alright for one if he remains a free man. Not sure about Smith at fullback. I suspect Chisholm will be off, so do we go with Keyes and Aston at halfback? A Brambani type player would be ideal.

We also need 3 hard nuts in the Moore/Alex Rowe type mould. These players are highly valued by their clubs so won't be easy to attract unless we pay well and show we mean business, have a proper coach etc.

Roche off to Huddersfield: www.totalrl.com/huddersfield-sig ... star-2018/

Roche off to Huddersfield: www.totalrl.com/huddersfield-sig ... star-2018/

Totally agree with this tho if we can offer him enough I think we could keep chiz for onex season...why are we only picking part time championship player...plenty of 2nd tier antipodeans and the off super league player that would come gunna be a hybrid team you know

Is hybrid latin for

I'm happy chalow decided to do that it's an unnecessary expense is full time...no point speculating who we are going to get.

Doesn't seem that we are going to recruit anybody that I would want to pay to see.

Why do you have the 2018 team list in front of you?

Well, as a blast from the past, I got a letter from the liquidators of OK Bulls today, with the access codes for viewing the most recent liquidators report. I really can't be bothered just now. Maybe later.

I like how we are been bombarded with positive news
In order to hit the goal of 3000 tickets next month...
What a pile of doggy doo...

Went to legends Origin Legends game tonight. Can we not tempt some of these old blokes out of retirement. Sean Long, Lee Gilmour, Tommy Martyn, Chris Thorman, Richard Horne and RHP all looking very sharp still. Great evening of entertainment and Jimmy Lowes even got sent off.

Well Sam Hallas signing is excellent news. Said in T&A yesterday Gibson & Smith were contracted for next year, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will be here. If they are than that's 2 more good signings who will do well in L1. I's hard to Gage what sort of squad we will have this early. It will be a case of waiting until we have around 20 players signed up of what sort of team we will have. For example Davies been offered a P/T deal. That could be a very poor signing if the likes of Macani, Mendeika, Halafihi are signing up with him. But if we sign up a decent pack, then giving Davies a P/T deal isn't too bad. Same with Sam Hallas signing, while i'm very happy with that news, we could sign Sam Burgess and it wouldn't matter if we still have a right hand side of Macani, Mendeika, & C. Smith. Inevitably they will be poor players signing. For me i want to know who our new coach will be before this season finishes.

The challenge Chalmers will have is that there aren't many players in the current squad worthy of FT deals, those that are (Chisholm, Sironen, Campbell, Oakes) aren't likely to sign for us. For me i would offer mainly the younger players FT deals. Then we have a good young nucleus to build with. Get some rough, old seasoned PT players (someone mentioned Richard Moore earlier who would be perfect)