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.

Did well for a 10 year old.

Players like Morley or Sonny Bill Williams are few, and no question would you make an exception for fitness professionals like those guys.
Even so, we still got Morley going on 29, which is close enough to a 27/28 age guide.

By and large a 27/28 year signing is going to give you 3+ years of worthy investment, so when they reach 31/32 you’d be thinking about the worth of an extension or not.

We don’t want to be signing the likes of Kasiano and Dudson again.

Hull made an approach, but it's been knocked back.

i think we should sign more 10 year olds

dammit

Especially as props don't usually reach their peak until about 11.