On Super League Backchat last night Schofield definitely doesn't rate Sandow saying he was just a "Fruit Cake "

the Eels probably only won 38% of games with Hayne at FB but that would not put me off signing him. the Eels have been leading with 20mins to go in about half a dozen games this year and gone on to loose them. That is a defence problem.
People forget that the Axe only had the cumberland throw or an interception in his defensive armoury before the Tony Smith era.
Sandow is involved in almost every point the Eels score and he can unlock defences. It would be nice if Radrada was coming with him if not Then Joel should play left wing next year because he would be at the top of the try charts.

Sandow and Semi make quite a team ,if I was a winger I'd love to play with Sandow ,just a matter of developing an understanding and the tries would flow

He'd get home sick in the spare bedroom

This homesick business seems to go back to 2008 ,when with Titans ,his partner had just given birth with ,I think, first child and he naturally wanted to be there as much as possible ,as it was he was 300miles away and missed some training sessions ,not sure of his current relationship status but, hopefully family will come over with him

Wanted at Wire as soon as possible, if this is believed

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and a good piece on why we should be happy if he does.....
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He could certainly help us out this season ,could be the spark we need

that second article is a good read....the more I read about him the more excited I get about having him on-board.

If we did manage to bring him in this year, how does that work on the salary cap?

For example if we bring him over for the 8's he would play for approx a quarter of the season. If we signed him on £240k would only a quarter of his salary count on the cap? So £60k, or would his full salary count?

£175,000 I would think.

Regardless of what his wage is, it would be his full cap value that would count? Rather than just the proportion of the season he played? I can't see how we could fit him under in that case?

If he is the marquee, then only 175 will count on the cap as proposed by SJM. 100 of Sam T at Pies.