Brayden Williame, the Fijian international, is likely to be replaced in the Catalan centres by a Frenchman -- either Arthur Romano or new signing from Toulouse Gavin Marguerite.

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Matty Smith to Widnes according to Gareth walker on Twitter

Good signing for Widnes that

I think bringing Sheens in and having a spine of

Owens

Craven/Smith

Tomkins

In the championship will be massive for us.

I agree with you...feels really weird doing so though !

Smith is a cog in the machine player. He has all the individual flare of a lump of coal but if he clicks as part of a team he’s a good player. So it depends what the team do, if they just expect him to perform magic he won’t and being in the championship won’t make any difference. If they all play their part then Smith will be a huge asset.

I'm sure Budge was talking to Steph.

I don’t and never have seen Smith as any kind of flare player or creative genius. Our strike will come from Owens and craven who were both fantastic last season.

He does however bring a wealth of experience and a decent kicking game, he’ll more than be an asset to Widnes in the championship.

Correct and probably should have stepped down to the Championship a few years back but who is going to turn down a year or two in Perpignan. Be interesting to see how he goes..

A pair of good halfbacks can change an honest, 'ordinary' team, into a very good one. You have two good half backs there.

Yeah I think so. Rather have good half backs and ordinary outside backs rather than the other way around.

We still need a centre and at least one prop, then we start to look good.

Logan Tomkins and Matty Smith are very welcome additions.

Any whispers on who Saints and Wire are dual Reg’ing with? Without deflecting the topic of conversation. Leigh aren’t with Saints this year.

I suspect no one? Given they have to field a reserve team every week next season?