Etu and Walker gone to Dewsbury on loan.

Hopefully that paves the way for us to announce our new star 7.

Who funnily enough, I believe is now at Keighley too. I would say behind Adam Brook in the pecking order, but I believe Richie is a fullback nowadays.

Well what an inspired signing Johnny Walker turned out to be

Neither. NSW Country Origin team once. That was after he'd been with us and gone back to Australia. I forget what happened but he only did a couple years more before he was out of the game. Top flight at any rate. Still only 32 now, he could still be playing somewhere if he didn't quit because of injury.

He moved into the second row for a while and then retired because of injury iirc.

nah , I got that bit wrong - I thought he'd played for Aus after he returned, but no.

He did play for the NSW Country side and everything else still applies, of course..

Making room on the cap for a return of Leon Pryce?

Didn't Ben Harris retire and train as a pilot? Retired due to injury

Hmm. Maybe we could get that Spitfire on loan, and have Harris zoom in from over the Coral Stand on 70 minutes and strafe the opposition. I've checked the Rules, and can't see anything against it

Assuming Lowes has the last say on who he wants and who he gets....

Well if he agreed to take charge of the side without having much say on recruitment then he's a fool. It's not like he was out of a job and desperate.

Thomas Bosc is not the solution either so I have no idea why people would want him to sign. We need an organiser to marshall the team around the pitch, Bosc is not this player.

Unfortunately there isn't that many players around who can do this and would be available. I'm still gutted that the Bulls never gave Brook a run in the side as we will never know how good he could have been. Instead he's now in a part time environment playing with part time players. Very difficult to judge.

The only ones I can realistically see us getting in before end of the season are Theo Farges if he drops down the pecking order at Saints for a period of time or maybe Kyle Wood (although I wouldnt be sure if Wood would be the right fit either).

Only other option is we get an unknown from Oz/NZ in just before the Middle 8's but this is a dangerous strategy which backfired on Leigh and us (with Neilson) in the fact they were either unfit or not used to playing with the team. At half back that could be a problem.

Unfortunately I think the ship has sailed and whatever we get is not going to be good enough!!!

Speaking to Steve Ferris today I asked him about the need for a scrum half. He said you tell me where I can find one as there is a real shortage in the game and we are not the only Club in the market, he also mentioned Saints had been over to Oz twice recently and had no luck.He went on to say they have had no luck at all in signing one and have been thwarted for various reasons and cited one that got away from about 2 weeks ago. He confirmed that the negotiations for the lease from the RFL is still ongoing and we had a robust discussion about his press releases. He also feels confident that the Team performances will turn round in the next week or two!

Totally agree - think we should have given Brook a few more games. Hoping that Adrian Purtell can give us a bit more stability on the pitch - we shall see. Think we need a settled team and not a team of individual players who keep changing every game. I know we have had injuries, but so have other teams, but we wont succeed until we have some consistency and take away the panic factor, which creates mistakes.