Burgess is only going to happen in the Docs dreams, Thurston I don't know but it would be a dream signing as he is the epitomy of the type of player the club needs.

Semi Radradra though would be immense, no trouble off the field and just a try scoring machine. A million Aus is roughly £450,000 so it would kind of work out. Never going to happen but God how good would that be,

On a different tack just seen the feeds about BMM and they all show a picture of him with Sheens, right there is why he is the most important signing the club could possibly make.

I would very much doubt many Clubs would blow a marquee spot on a winger. It doesn't really matter how good they are if they don't see the ball. Marquee players will be spine players. FB, HB's, or Hookers. With a smattering of class forwards.

Radradra wouldn't score many more tries than BJB has this season, because he wouldn't get anywhere near as much of the ball as he gets at the Eels. It doesn't sound promising that we're going to sign any decent centres in the off-season either and I suspect Joel Monaghan may end up taking one of those spots.

I said that of last season when most only mentioned the hooking role, the centres we had were ok for back-up but we needed some real quality, if we bring no-one in next season will be much the same.

As for Radradra that has to be a joke at Salford, a winger on massive bucks never to see the ball deary me.

Surely we must have more signings up our sleeve other than the names we have seen mentioned... even following the Kopczak / Masila signings our pack needs strengthening massively the likes of x2 Walnes / Foster / Menzies / G Griffin / Krasniqi are simply nowhere near good enough club with top half ambitions. Hooker is another area which needs addressing and I don't mean by signing Logan Tomkins permanently, I would however be happy to play Tommy Lee at 13 next season though he's no world beater but does a decent enough job and gets through some hard work.

And hopefully Sheens will be head coach – Ian Watson is not the answer each coach we seem to employ has less experience than the other.


It's going to be an interesting to see who we sign.. I guess only time will tell.

Agree even with Kopczak and Masila we still look to be lacking experience and depth in the pack. Flanagan at Saints has been mentioned but I personally think we will need a couple of better quality forwards at the very least. We just simply aren't strong enough to lose 6 regular forwards and replace only three of them. If you include Hock and Puletua we are even more numbers down on the start of this year.


Let's see what Friday brings.

Don't forget that last season we bought very late into the off season with Paterson, also got the feeling that they might have unearthed a player or two from the lower divisions.

Whats happening with Darrell Griffin.Not sure but i think he has 12 months left on his contract.Surely he would be worth keeping given our lack of forwards and experience

How can you be so sure? I think there is a heck of a lot of knee jerking going on ATM, we still have plenty of time to recruit and need to remain calm. We are in the best possible hands - there is no way Sheens would over look strengthening centre and prop position. We need to trust in the man's judgement and give him time.

Exactly DG is a good solid prop and earlier on in the season when it is more of a slog in the worse weather he for me has a big part to play. We could do with another prop but it's not bad with how we have.

D Griffin.
A Walne.
J Walne.
Carl Forster.
Ben Murdoch-Masila.
Luke Menzies.
Craig Kopczak.

To be honest I'm not entirely convinced. It's about quality not quantity.

Forgot about Krasniqi though I'd like to see him stay at 13 in the Gallen mode.

Think of those Kopczak, Griffin and BMM are good quality props, you'd hope that one of the Walnes now steps up as this is their chance too fulfill the potential they both have. The others you'd think will get plenty of chances off the bench at various times through the season.

I'm more concerned about the centres, unless Sheens is going to play MCB in the position we bought him to play and spends the time on his coaching he needs think we are very light in the back line.

This is the key. Young players who were very good at academy level have to now grab this golden opportunity with both hands like Evalds and establish themselves as Superleague quality players. It's up to them and how much they want it. If they can't develop into top players under Sheens guidance they're never going to develop are they? There's quite a number of youngsters at the club who probably have next year to either make their mark or play in the lower leagues.

No coincidence D.Griffin hasn't featured since Sheens arrived, he isn't rated. At 34 years old time isn't on his side either and only special players can remain at the top level once they reach their mid-30s. A step down to a Yorkshire Championship club is probably a more realistic option in 2016, possibly Featherstone.

Phil Gould,The GM at Penrith was asked about BMM on Twitter.His reply..

"Powerful .. Big and strong .. Good footwork .. Mobile for big man .. Offloads. Try scorer .. Need to get to 112kgs"

Looks like we might need a food monitor to keep him out of the fridge.

Just let him try the food in the stadium that should put him off. Lmao

Hoping he means he is underweight but considering he weighed in at 150kgs as a junior then i doubt it .Keep him off the Vic Mauro diet plan and he should be OK

I know Phil answers sensible twitter questions so I thought I'd ask.

I'll get the Mrs to cook for him he'll soon be at 100kg

Not one for normally posting, especially rumours,
but what the.......

Hansen going because he was told that we would pay him his Wigan testimonial money in cash, and guess what....

Is that DOWN to 100kg because your wife is a crap cook, or is it UP to 100kg because you wife is a great cook?

I guess that, if you're explaining it to your wife, it's the latter, but if you're explaining it to us, it's the former. Am I right?

Spot on Tony

Groat has gone the Rams anyway.

He is a loose forward and when fit he is a class one at that

He is a loose forward and when fit he is a class one at that