Ideally for me Hill to stay and Bullock being a solid improvement on Sita but I suppose time will tell!

I would like us to keep Ashton, but his injury record isn’t great unfortunately for him.

Not a signing that gives me the yippee’s.

I find this intriguing. Is it deliberate given relative lack of success in recent overseas signings or is it linked to where we are on the cap? Wonder if any other SL team has so few overseas players.

Also, wonder what will happen to Keanan Brand. Currently playing full back for Leigh. Will he be back next year with us?

The calibre of players that are willing to leave the NRL to play Super League has diminished incredibly.

We, along with others have been burnt badly.

In my opinion he plays better now for Tony Smith than for Powell at Cas.

Rather him than some Aussie on a pension.

I'm sorry but do people even watch the game. Bullock is Wigan's version of Sita but worse. He plays similar minutes, is the same liability in defence with slow movement laterally and doesn't have the impact where Sita can injure someone when taking the ball up.

Bullock wasn't even in the 17 man squad for the game at the weekend, he came in due to injury to Gildart. If he went straight into the side then Wigan wouldn't have lost a substitution from the permitted amount. Lam gave up a substitution to put him on the bench as he is rated so little. He cant get in, in front of there forwards who offer nothing as it is.

The one thing in common between both players is they were both ex wingers. I would rather have Sita than Bullock every day of the week

I'm not enthused by our signings either. I was pleased with Powell's appointment and liked the way he reshaped the Leeds squad and built a Cas team from bottom to top in 4 years without big money by picking up unheralded players, but it does feel like he's reassembling a Cas squad that was plateauing over here.

George Williams is a signing that could take us a step forward, the other guys are much of a muchness with what we already have and I have a nagging suspicion that by the time all the ins and outs are finished we'll go in to 2022 with a squad that is slightly weaker than in 2021. Of course rubber duckie will tell us its the greatest squad in history and will win the lot.

Unfortunately that's the limitations of a salary capped sport. We have given Toby a big hike to keep him. Money has got to come from somehwere to pay for it. Possibly Minikin on less than Lineham? I'm quite happy with the signings however I am worried about the front row. You win nothing behind a bad pack, what's the point in having Widdop and Williams with no props putting us on the front foot?

If you look back to years gone by, at some of the Saints top teams they had Danny Arnold and Joey Hayes (average players) on the wings as the money was spent on the rest of the team. Whether the game has changed too much i dont know. They were both decent finishers but not top quality by any means.

Are you sam beckett by any chance?

I don't even know who that is, so i don't know if that's a compliment or derogatory. It is true though, there is no point having star studded half backs and a powder puff pack.

It was a quantum leap reference since you went all the way back to 1996 for your point.

Which im not entirely sure I understand. If you wouldn't mind clarifying/expanding

Even if the squad is ever so slightly weaker on paper next year, I’d back Powell to get more out of his squad fillers than Price. It’s true that we do need to retain some power up front. Maybe the cheaper wing options are a result of wanting to keep Hill. He and Cooper backed up by Philbin and Mulhern is good enough to provide a platform for Widdop and Williams to win us a grand final.

I’m happy that our half-backs for next year are both big game players with a full skill set. The wings may not be NRL standard but outside of two fairly decent centres with Williams and Widdop pulling the strings, it shouldn’t matter too much. Our spine is excellent and we have some very good juniors coming through in key positions. I’d be far more worried if we had Austin and Fages at half back with NRL retirees in the centres and a couple of star wingers not even gettig the ball.

Let’s relax and see how we shape up next season.

Minikin, Mata'utia, Holmes, Harrison and possibly Bullock.

I bet Saints, Wigan and Leeds are bricking it.