A small player who's game is reliant on explosive speed who turns 30 next season with a history of injuries, and hasn't played the sport in 7 years.

No thanks.

My guess is, the club are looking for a headline signing and one to attract more punters. Who would you suggest we go for Quickening?

Not George Williams

Rather see the money spent on a transfer fee or a marquee NRL player. I think we have seen that average NRL backs can look very good in SL. Eastmond *could* turn out to be good after an adjustment period but IMO not nearly as much chance of that as if we get a decent proven player from the NRL or even a transfer of a SL player like Gale etc.

INOUT

That's a very good point. He's a big risk for me, then offsetting of money does make it a lesser risk to be fair.

Realistically is he likely to be better than Hiku was?

No question.
We played 3 SL teams worse than us and 4 from a division lower. The whole shatty team looked good through that period.
Hiku was great for us...don't get me wrong here....but he wasn't tested under top conditions.

I disagree RD, Hiku was head and shoulders above the rest of his team mates and dragged them up a level.

I don't disagree with that... but you must add Savelio and Pomeroy to that mix too. Hiku would have made little difference without them.

My points was only that Eastmond is/was better player than Hiku. Hiku wasn't playing big games for us...we were playing the likes of Halifax London etc

If Eastmond had stayed in RL and been an England regular it would be easy to judge him against Hiku.

Hiku is a current NZ international, a lot younger and shows clear class (he did play against some teams at a higher level e.g. Wigan). We don’t know whether Eastmond will make a decent RL player again. History suggests not, but there are some exceptions to the rule.

League Express revealed last week a deal for Kyle Eastmond was nearing completion it is understood it is now finalised.

It goes on to say who makes way for Eastmond is yet to be determined though League Expressunderstands the Wolves are preparing to make a significant announcement which could pave the way for Eastmond’s arrival.

All this is in a piece regarding Patton’s future in today’s paper.