Never mind loans,spend some money.

Not on the RFL charged list as of tonight

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Bad one that,he'll get five for it.As Mr Patterson used the elbow,not the shoulder.

Did not realise there was a Next Page

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Patterson - 3 Game Ban , £300 quid fine

Averaging 2 ban & 2 injuries a game , at this rate Chase will have no team mates by the time he makes it back on the field .

they might even be forced to play Locke ......

So we’re missing:

J Griffin
Sa’u
Dobson
Ben Jones Bishop
Walton
Lee
Paterson
Chase
Hauraki
D Griffin
A Walne
J Walne
Menzies
England (on loan)
Ford (on loan)

And we're looking at registering Ian Watson as a player.

I’ve never known anything like it. If it was Saints, Wigan or Leeds missing this amount of players the TV pundits would explode.

No, our 19’s at the moment are struggling. We have no where near the quality of academy players that Wigan, Saints, Leeds etc. For us to throw a young 16/17 year halfback straight into a super league match when we don’t even have one training fulltime (I don’t think) would be criminal. Not only for the team, but for their confidence as well, especially if he makes a few mistakes early doors and our fans start getting edgy. First of all they have to earn a place in the first team by playing well at u19’s level and if the coaches don’t feel that the players we currently have in that position are good enough then we have to respect that decision, at the end of the day they watch them every day in training and are trained to develop the young lads properly.

Our academy at the moment is a work in progress, we have a number of good products playing in the first team already: Fages, the Walne Brothers, Walton and Matty Gee and Ryan Lannon were both on the bench against Leeds last week, so we’re getting there. Plus we have also let a number of players leave in the past: Ratchford, Turner, Sneyd so we do produce them, maybe not on the scale of a Wigan or Leeds, but I'll say it again we’re getting there.

FWIW I don’t think Watson will play, I just think he’s being registered as a last resort.

Anyway didn't you lot register Radford the other year after he had retired?

Tried that last year at Widnes,playing the centre whose name I forget,but difficult to pronounce anyway,and the poor lad was totally out of his depth and hasn't been seen since.

Some fair points, but I still think playing a 17/18 year old is better than playing Watson and Godwin. What is the point in playing Watson?

He gives us a little experience at half back as Theo Fages is still only 20 and doesn't have the experience in guiding the team around the pitch. The only other options are playing people out of position and in a season in which teams can't really afford to lose many games, we need all the chances of winning as we can get. Playing Watson in order to direct the team around the field gives us slightly more of a chance. Plus we only have maximum 17 available players, so if someone were to pull up in training or the warm-up, we won't have enough players full stop.

God help whoever were playing when Rangi comes back! hes our talisman and we will have bodies back, expect magic!!