If Drinkwater is fit, why would Catalans release him? He's got another year on his contract there. He also spoke about how he was loving life in France and couldn't imagine leaving and missed a few months with a mystery foot injury that puzzled doctors around the world. If you're signing him, who are Catalans getting? They were very happy with Drinkwater, so must be someone big.

Josh Drinkwater is an Aussie.

They seemed to prefer Tyrone May there at the end of last year and are lining up 2 new centres. I guess they would need to release Drinkwater for cap purposes.

Taukeiaho, Plus Tomkins, plus Pearce plus 2 new centres (think they where chasing Luetele?) won’t come cheap

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All these suggestions of who we might or not be signing & who might be going are a pretty poor reflection on the man who has had his finger on the pulse for over 18 months. We will no doubt be dragged into a late spending spree once more to bring the overpaid over here to under perform.
And the club wants to sell season tickets.

Every time I saw Drinkwater last year he looked a stone overweight.

I recall seeing him make a break in one match and you could actually see the physio preparing the oxygen tent on the touchline.

As Saddened said earlier, he’s happy in France and he’s under contract. To me that says he wouldn’t be heading here for anything other than more money on a longer deal.

It’s a no from me. If Williams is good enough to be the England captain he should be good enough to steer us around the park behind a bigger pack. I’m sure Dean or Hayes have a good enough long kicking game to justify the other HB jersey (if Ratchford isn’t up to standard as we suspect).

I just hope we don’t throw too much money at Gildart for centre. He’s above average, but nothing that justifies King-style wages.

We aren’t half in a mess right now. I actually felt better last month at the end of an awful season.

So assuming we sign Drinkwater the squad for next season is looking something like:-

1. Dufty
2. Ashton
3. Ma'atutia
4. Ratchford
5. Thewlis
6. Williams
7. Drinkwater
8. Vaughan
9. Clark
10. Dudson
11. Currie
12. Nicholson
13. McGuire

Walker
Kasiano
Mikaele
Harrison
Bullock
Philbin
Wrench
Minikin

It`s looking like we will sign both a centre and a halfback for 2023.

Releasing Holmes and possibly A.N. Other will allow us to do that.

With the meagre salary that he will be on, I can`t see how it would affect our Salary Cap that much, and I would like to retain Longstaff.

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Were we supposed to be after him?

Yes, we were linked with him part the way through last season.