It's a fine balancing act. You could argue for any signing we make that its potentially blocking path of one of our u20's and we shouldnt make the signing. You've got to balance short term results against longer term issues like bringing youth through and management of cap space. Whilst there are areas of team I'd look at signing someone for as a short term fix I dont think signing a big name half mid season is really necessary given the personnel already on board. If at the end of the season they guys we've got arent living upto expectations thats when I'd look at it again.

I don't have any burning desire for us to sign Leon Pryce

We're clearly in a much better shape for this season than we were for last. I'm not anticipating us storming to the Grand Final, but I expect us to comfortably be in the Top 8 with maybe a good cup run. We have good and bad days, but I confidently expect more good than bad.

If it turns out that we are still falling short by the end of the season, well - Leon will out of contract and - assuming he wants to come - we can sign him then without the cocky Saints being able to do anything about it

So I'm totally relaxed about it all

Shouldn't we be looking at a Full Back. www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 90,00.html

Shouldn't we be looking at a Full Back. www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 90,00.html

We don't need to sign price at all now. When we didn't have an specialist 6 it was a good plan but now we do I think we should look at spending our money elsewhere, if we need to at all.

As for full back we will have enough quality there with Kearney, Platt, Halley and Sykes can cover there if need be.

full back is the last place we need to strenghten imo

Agree whole heartedly!!

Tansey would add nothing to our Full Back options

He'd be third or fourth pick at FB with our current squad

Why on earth would we want to look at Tansey?? No shortage of fullbacks, and he seems to have considerable baggage. Don't rate him that highly anyway.

Is Paul Cooke his Agent??

Precisely. He's been overrated for his entire career and IMO isn't better than at least 3 of our current fullback options. Hull getting rid of him and a half-decent replacement in would be a massive blessing in disguise for them.

According to the 'Black & Whites' forum they are after Phelps! That is by far a better signing!

Tansey appeared to press the self destruct button a while back.

Agreed. Phelps is 10 times the fullback that Tansey is.