i personally dont rate mathers, dont like the fella either after the matt king incident but am wiling to give him a chance now hes our player, hopefully he can play well but until we see how he plays for us i will give him a chance, good luck to him hope he plays well for us.

Any thoughts on the new two and a half year deal with Mathers? Personally don't know what to make of it, felt Riley was doing a good job for us and still being a young lad learning his trade can only get better. Wouldn't be surprised to see him back on the wing.

well Riley will go onto the wing with Hicks on the other
Johnson and King will be the centres

Probably spelling the end for Reardon aswell?

At Leeds he scored 26 in 87 games, if he can rediscover his form from them days he will give us a very useful attacking weapon from fullback which we currently don't really have and haven't had for a good few years.

Possibly, anyone know what is going on with the whole Reardon situation?

Mathers has confidence in Smith and vice versa.

I think he'll do very well.

I think he's better than Riley but has lost his way over the last couple of seasons - a big slice of that due to injury.

It's not the end for Riley by any stretch of the imagination.

May be a different situation regarding Reardon - who we've only seen flashes of quality play - again linked to injury.
I doubt forthcoming off the field issues were at the front of TS's mind, but they may have been at the back of it.

Then again he's stood by others who have had problems whilst at Leeds.

Is Mathers better than Riley?

Yes, but needs to have his confidence rebuilt and TS will do that.

Riley still has a good future though if he continues to knuckle down.

We need a new centre asap. We have Johnson and who?? Grix possibly? Benny's too good as a forward to go back to being a centre. Is there anyone in the reserves who could make the step up?

Centres will be King and Johnson for the forseeable, surely?

Grix, PJ, King, Bridge, VA, Hicks, Then the Reserves centres, Hurst etc all have experience of centre.

Crikey, there's folk on here who'd tell you all day long that Bridge is a centre. Anderson played there for Saints didn't he ?

I'm sure for now, it's not really a problem, there's so many options, and right now PJ has been sensational at right centre.

If Mathers was fit, we could go, for example :

Mathers
Riley
PJ
King/Grix/Bridge
Hicks

You'd still be leaving out Penny, two of the above & Reardon if he stays.

Loads of options.

rlChris Irvine seems to?rl

Grix has been playing much better than King at 4 recently, so why are people saying King will move back to 4?

Grix has a good step, a dangerous fend and is very strong.

King can catch.

King definitely needs to stay on the wing! I quite like the combination of Grix/King and Johnson/Hicks, not many other options at the moment though to be honest!

article in RL Express today regarding Ben Cockayne being possibly disciplined by either HKR and / or RFL themselves for his assault suspended sentence and a further suspension or ban likely

maybe Reardon will have the same fate and why we have signed Mathers just-in-case ??

he knows nowt