Lol hang on you make that sound like I had a source

It's Powell on Hughes I'll be interested to see play out.

Powell seems to like more dynamic 2nd rows, Ollie Holmes, McMeeken, Junior Moors, Chayse Blair, Jesse Sene-Lefao. Hughes doesn't fit this mold, Currie probably does but Hughes is a bit more of a flow breaker when he gets the ball. It'll be interesting to see if Powell opens him up from Price's "take it up the middle safely" mantra

He's pretty solid as a centre, decent speed and a decent pass. Sure he's more than just what we see on the right edge at the moment, and pretty sure we saw some fancy cut-out passes on the left during 2016/17 didn't we? Before Smith left?

Guess we'll see.

When everyone predicted he will leave at the end of his last contract...he surprised many and was very happy to extend his future here. He married local and has a child. He seems very happy and settled playing for Wire.
All this talk of him leaving goes completely against the grain to me.

If he does have an opportunity to play NRL, it’s now before his child is of a school age. However we’ve seen it’s a big thing to go so far with a baby and leave grandparents back in the uk, for all parties.

Agreed, I think every player gets a clean slate as of next season with Powell. I can't see Jason Clark staying so we do still need a workhorse and Hughes is a good one. I'm hoping at the very least the instructions change. I'd imagine Powell will pick his own captain though and if he is staying I think Daryl Clark would be a strong candidate.

I think Powell will have to use all his powers of persuasion to keep Clark. NRL clubs will be crying out for hooker. Cameron Smith and Isaac Luke both retired and I hear today that Jake Friend has announced his retirement from immediate effect. Andrew McCullogh is not getting any younger and Ben Hunt who has played hooker is out for the season so even given the talent in the NRL they could be crying out for a player like Clark.
Clark is highly rated in the NRL and there could be some big money on offer.

The Titans have offered Clark a 2 year deal starting next year, i think he might take it. If not and Widdop goes i'd make Clark one of our marquee players.

Cant see us winning the big time without Daz

I can see the Roosters making an offer now Friend has had to pack in. Clark taking off from DH and Tedesco backing up would be like how JT and Damien Cook have played for NSW recently.
I can't see us winning the big one with the way we play Clark at the moment. In the Cas game there were probably 2 occasions he took off from DH and there wasn't a player in PnB within 10 yards of him. That is all too common for us. A blind man on a galloping horse through thick fog could tell when DC is going to jump out of DH but most of the time we just stand, watch and admire.
Wellens wasnt exactly Ben Barba or Billy slater in attack but he was smart enough and put enough effort in to follow Cunningham and Roby and bagged plenty of tries off it.

If only we had an absolutely rapid young lad at the club who was a great support runner and had proved he could score a load of tries when he makes the team, we can only dream......... Oh wait.

He’s on enough money to be put as a marquee if required anyhow.

Roosters wouldn’t have the cap space and already have two good young hookers.