Hopefully it will say that there will be competition for places from young hungry players.

Chris Borgese?
We are now in the era of Salford City Reds ( 2013 ) MKAC Investments.
Graham Lowe is a new Director of Rugby , and I reckon there will be a alot of activity in & out of the club over the season . and new ways of operating .
10 of the existing senior squad are out of contract at the end of the season , and probably only 2 or 3 tops ( Broughton being the obvious one ) will be guaranteed to be offered extended deals . how many did Veivers sign ?
Dr K , has talked about spending up to the Wage Cap next season. and we'll be a notabley bigger draw to players & player agents than in prevoius seasons.
I think the younger lads are safe , even though it looks like they are being over looked at present, look at the level of cover bigger teams have ,they have a wealth. our squad is down to the bare bones , I think it's just about getting bodies in .
This Connor Higgins has a UK passport , he'll be over here to put himself in the shop window , with the 1st team - U19's , if he doesn't make it with us , other teams will have had a look at him .

I believe you have signed Hock for next season

Who have we been linked with buying?

I heard we were in for Rangi Chase a few weeks ago but I'm assuming thats not going to happen now.

Worked with both Liam and Vic at Manly for the last two seasons. Mainly Liam though in reserve grade (NSW Cup).

Vic is solid, small in stature for a prop, but relentless. Will try and try and keep going.

Liam is a very skilful player with a good boot and kicking game.

I hope they settle in there well.

Think last night showed we desperately need at least another two props. I lost count of how many times we were getting dragged backwards 2 or 3 yards in the tackle, it was almost every single hit up.

out of the top RL sides Wigan are adept at this Maguire introduced wrestling tackle technique, - 3 men in the tackle , held up RU maul style enabling them to keep the tackle live , move the play back AND allow their defence to regroup.
It's not just the fact we are light in the pack , we are still relatively slow/bad at the play the ball , we must have lost possession 3 or 4 times due to penalties for incorrect play-the-ball .

I know it's been said many times before but last night proved we are woefully short in the front row. Mauro looks like he's going to be a 70 minute a game prop who is a blocker but we need a hard yard maker and from the way the forwards failed to protect Fages last night we need one who isn't afraid of the biff.

I'm happy to give everyone all the time needed, think McGoldrick will be a valuable interchange player, think that Theo if he gets to play @ 6 outside Foran will become a genuine world beater of a player and one who in years gone by we'd have lost to a bigger team but now we can match anything the other have to entice him.

The one who I think we missed most last night was Gleeson, he might be a bit of a numpty off the pitch but he was always solid in defense and could be relied on to make gaps for his winger.

You'd hope that with the Docs money the players are taken away from the hullabaloo of the taker over and can find somewhere in France/Spain to bond and train both before and after the Les Cats game and gear towards starting the season proper with the run of games against Hull KR, London and Wakefield when the Aussies have arrived to add some nouse, skill and backbone to the team.

How do the top teams counteract Wigan doing this?Have we not been shown how to hit the floor and play the ball quickly and correctly?

I believe we haven't signed Karl Pryce ...
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must be something bad about him for us to even overlook him dangerous near the line due to his size maybe he not all that off the field seein as no super league club wanted him

Does anyone know when the lads from Manly are due to arrive?

Would be ideal if their first game was the home tie V Hull KR and if we had Gleeson back by then and any potential other loanees or new signings that would be a winnable game with what would constitute our current best sqaud to work with.

OT I know but I keep seeing that this possibly Mozzers last year and we could do worse than go with a cheeky bid for him to add the obviously missing edge in the front row.

Manly lads look like a month or so.

We've been linked with Johnny Molloy, released from Hudds, originally Wigan. Pals with Matty Ashurst and big young back-rower. Could do a lot worse.

Unless it was a 1 year deal or a season loan I wouldn't even consider mediocre players that other clubs don't want. The last thing we need is average players tied up on contracts beyond this year. Personally I'd prefer to see our young lads given some experiance.

Let's take some pain or embarrassment this year if we have to as long as it gives us better options next year.

Liam is still training with the first grade squad here and he said he was hoping to get there in a couple of weeks.