See some good news from the club if true

Not sure a season long loan is a wise move, he’ll be a very handy replacement….unless we think Powell can cover it along with Ratchford…..and as long as Okunbor doesn’t come the other way!!

I would let him go. When you say he’ll be handy for them? Has he been handy for us? he’s been garbage. If we get an injury or suspension in the halfs then we can always use Ratchford or even Powell.

I’d be happy with that he’s not settled well at all with us. We would have cover I guess if true;

Hayes
Stef
Powell
Currie - 2019 CC final

Although Drinkwater has been a flop so far, and won't be getting a contract again, we haven't really had chance to see how he plays under Burgess. He might be handy cover should one of Hayes or Williams get injured, and his kicking game was always fairly decent.

It’s evidence to support the progress made of late, particularly with the current mentality of “next man up”, that we can release Kasiano, Dwyer, Dudson and potentially Drinkwater without panic buying. Particularly when you look at the number of injuries and suspensions that we’ve had.

It puts us in a good position to recruit for next year.

Can`t see Tai being kept for next year, so that would give us 3 Overseas Quota Players vacancies we could use.

The way the kids are playing with potentially more emerging too, I don`t think we will use all of our Quota opportunities.

I`ll be surprised and a little disappointed if we fail to sign another prop for this season though.

The CC final hbs were Patton & Hughes.
Although some media had Currie down as hb.

I have heard that "signing players like Kassiano and Dudson are a thing of the past" they are the two names that was mentioned. Not entirely sure what that means, age related? attitude related? playing style? No idea, but i can only think its positive neither player excelled for us. I do believe we are looking closer to home in regards to recruitment

I’ve said before that we ought not to be signing players over the age of 27/28, unless it’s a season only needs must deal.
I don’t apply that to extension of contracts in some cases.

Currie was named at Stand Off on the official team sheet, but Hughes played there from the start. A bit of mind games from Price I think.

How old was Adrian Morley when we signed him ?

Yes you are correct.

Price played Hughes there to shadow Johnny Lomax and tackle him out of the game and he was an extra forward for us, when we had the ball.

Hughes was very effective that day to give him his due and had Lomax in his pocket for all the game.

Born 1997, signed 2007 so I think 29 or 30 and he played 7 seasons for us.

Well he didn't seem too bad so perhaps we should make an exception. Better still look rather more carefully at who we are buying. Use the old grey matter, avoid journeymen, talk to players and coaches that know them well, look at their playing records and stats, ask them why they are happy to sign etc etc. Im not saying that putting on a blindfold and sticking a pin in a list of available players is not totally useless, but we do perhaps need to move on.