The only hope may be an Aussie import who can't find a squad place at home, with their club part funding his wage.

Worked out ok with Latu, didn't it?

Haha well if that doesn't raise optimism levels through the roof then nothing will.

Think I've convinced myself we'll be ok, and that Powell will want us to be more mobile rather than a straight up running down the middle approach.

Yeah I agree, I'd take an improvement in playing style with the quality we have in the halves and hooker that should see us win more than we lose.

Just going off other clubs ins and outs and looking at ours.saints are the team to beat..no doubt Leeds and Wigan will look to improve.catalans will still be up there and don't count out sir Tony's kr they.ll be sniffing around the top 6 with us..hope I'm wrong

I feel ill…..

I agree with you that i also thought we were done with regard to next years playing roster. However, this thread, (also by somebody who thought we'd completed our squad) threw up a couple speculative posts in reply. However, I still believe that's it on the new signings front, too.

If we are making no further prop signings, who do we think Powell might be able to take up a level to help us out from Philbin, Butler and Bullock. Butler had a bit of a non season last year but came with a really good rep in the Championship, Bullock doesn’t run his weight according to wigan fans and Philbin plateaued at just below average last year.

They all have the potential to step up a gear. I don’t know why Philbin didn’t seem to progress last year, that’s up to the new coach to work out, but these things do happen and he may pick up next season. Bullock may benefit from a change of scene, but no guarantees. Sometimes players flourish with a change, sometimes they just continue to disappoint but in different colours. Butler was unlucky with the covid situation last season resulting in no reserve grade competition.

With Price gone we have a clean slate with Butler and Doro, and a change of club for Bullock. We had Hill & Cooper as first choice and major minute props, without anybody that looked able to fill their shoes. With Hill gone, there's a fair bit of stepping up to do for Mulhern, who hasn't been a starting prop for us on a regular basis, and for other three being able to fit in as starting prop, should anything happen to Cooper and Mulhern injury wise. A very difficult task for Powell to get right in 2022, as a number of posters on here have already commented on, having to cover for Chris Hill's regular contribution. We seemed to struggle at times with both Hill and Cooper in the side, with the go forward to dropping when they were spelled, now we may have a problem with the go forward from the first whistle. Hope that I, and liked minded folk on here are pleasantly surprised in '22.

Shaun Wane has picked Philbin (and Cooper) in his 20 for next week's match. So, he obviously has no problems with Philbin.