Spot on. I'd have played Hall, Langley, Crossley or one of the Burgess twins before Sculthorpe.

If it was a 1 year deal because there was absolutley nobody else available then that would have been easier to accept, but a 2 year deal and the fact that we have obviously outbid 2 other clubs just disappoints me. We can't even aim higher than Sculthorpe ?

It's not a good signing.

He's 30, injury prone and unfit.

He can make good yards in short concentrated bursts and produce thge odd lauititi pass but he'll also make mistakes and give penalties away.

He's not going to tangibly improve your team, he's just another player in the squad.

Honestly your team has been absolutly decimated since 05/06.

You've leaked star quality faster than blood flows from a main artery and all you ever do is sign wakefield rejects.

When they are ready I'm sure we'll play any of the young props coming through (Crossley/Burgess'sssss) Point is they are judged by the club at the moment as not ready for February 2010, so we needed some experience at prop so we dont get rolled over and the young lads thrown in too early with teir development put back accordingly.

I would hope that by the end of next season at least 1 hopefully 2 of our junior products have had game time at prop, but there is no point putting them in for the sake of it when they are not ready.

IF the much denied Walker deal doesn't materialise then I think we'll be in very deep doo doo next season.

This is another signing that fails to get my juices going, but it could work out ok if he is well coached. As the Hudds chaps have mentioned, he looked good at their place after an unsettled period at Wakey.

You've got to love contrasting the last quote in the T&A article with the comments that follow though. Sculthorpe's sure got his work cut out to convert the doubters!

What difference is Walker going to make to the current shower? We need a quality player taking up our last quota spot or 10th/11th spot is ours.

Name that player

I was amused by this on the BBC siteSculthorpe will fill the void left by the departure of Sam Burgess, who has signed a four-year deal with Australian side South Sydney Rabbitohs.'"

Exactly.

Thackray??
King??
Feather??
Boyle??
G Horne??

...no, wait, I know, its Moi Moi or Hayne...yes, thats the answer, I'll just wait for them to rock up at Odsal top and all will be fine.

The Eternal Optimist is someone that always aims for the top and once that is unattainable they aim for the next best on so on always confident that the best outcome can be sought by always making the best of a situation.

First I thought we'd keep Burgess, then I thought we'd replace him with Moi Moi, then I thought we'd replace him with Fielden, then I thought we'd replace him with Richard Moore and now we have replaced him with Danny Sculthorpe. It could be worse at least we are getting to a situation where we are able to name a 25 man squad for next season.

I didn't say world class, and I said taking up our last quota spot.

Just for the record, I'd have taken Thackray, Feather or King over Svulthorpe.

He was talking about a quota player - and it'll be a back - no doubt Walker.

The fact that other SL clubs were after him shows the lack of talent around in SL.

It also shows what a c0ck up it was to allow a player like Peacock to leave. Despite the story that he wanted to play for his home-city club I do feel that if we'd made him a decent offer he wouldn't have needed to move.

We must do our best to hang onto our home grown products that come good.

Peacock wanted a better deal but the club said they didn't have neough money. Peacock was happy with that but then you went out and spent mega bucks on harris.

Peacock and many others felt let down by this and decided to leave.

That's from his autobiography.

peacock would have stayed had he not been shafted by caisley. came from someone very close to JP