Mossop and Tautai have been pretty poor to be honest, but have backed up well on occasions. The rise of Crosby, Clubb and Flower is down to Wane instilling the win at all costs mentality and making them believe they are invincible. He did it with Smith, Green, Sarginson and Williams. Our coach doesn't appear to be able to do that with our players hence the difference in trophy cabinets.

We are in dire need of a quality prop to add to the current recruitment!

Dodds is a decent powerful interchange prop for a decent NRL team. Therefore he will be one of the best props in SL.

Warrington rugby league club making a mockery of the sport by making it look like rugby league clubs are well run and have money to spend.

So what if we've spent £300k on two internationals under 25.....

Hull have that money now. .so its still in the English game as are those two players.. Let's see what Hull do with that money eh ?

Well it's kind of exactly how many businesses run to grow and establish themselves. Speculate to accumulate. Take the chance to spend big and then sustain from there. Plus we are already a profitable business and aren't worried about money in the bank before you even factor in the owner.

Not an international but we've also got Jack Hughes and another international, Darryl Clark from the year before.

Of all the things I worry about regarding The Wire, our financial situation is not one of them - in the slightest.

Seems the club are damned if they do and damned if they don't at least in some eyes. To my mind it shows the club weren't any happier with last season than the rest of us and have decided to do something about it. Time will tell if they got it right.

Well, my hesitency is purely on lack of knowledge of him, from what i've read on here, and other people watching the nrl since we announced his signature, he seems like a defensive prop, rather than a go forward type, which is pretty good since we need to toughen up there, but arguably its overall numbers that concern me. He's number 3 in a rotation where we worked 1 and 2 to death, there's an injury ? over number 4 in harrison, one over number 5 in Evans and a kid in king.

To go back to the wigan props, crosby is the youngest and probably biggest out of the lot who's played more and more minutes over the year, the rest have been consistantly fit so far, but also backed up by Wigans 3/4 line doing extra work for them, so they've not been over worked due to style of play.

We were a prop short after woody leaving last pre season and IMO we're still a prop short now.

This season Smith has bemoaned the lack of option takers hence the early announcement of Gidley, when Sandow arrived responsibility fell squarely on his shoulders as there was no one else, next season Sandow will have Gidley and Westerman sharing options with some great players outside to take up Smiths "play it as you see it" mantra.

£150.000 is no great shakes if you say it slowly, I hope we can fit in another prop though.

Is Manu still in England then?

Hull are maxed out on overseas players though Michaels, Fonua, Tuimavave, Paleaaesina, Manu, Pritchard, Minichiello and Talanoa. Too many IMO it should be three or four max.

I've got a RL edition of The Apprentice in my head

LLS Lord Lefty Sugar
WTDP Warrington Transfer Delegation Party

Prokefiev's Romeo & Juliet plays, as WTDP enters the boardroom.

LLS "Ahhh. The brains traaaast. Sit dahhnn"

WTDP "Thank you, Lord Sugar"

LLS "Right ven. Four maanths ago, I gave you lot over free handred big un's to get Warrington sam decent players. They've been a load of old pony this year. They deserve sammat better"

WTDP "Yes, Lord Sugar. Well, we've scoured the globe, and made several enquiries to all the best available players, and....."

LLS "Cut the bull, sunshine. I've heard it from proper professionals. Who did you get?"

WTDP "Lineham and Westerman from Hull, Lord Sugar"

LLS "Stone me! I thought that Kermit, Miss Piggy and Gonzo were just Mappets. Turns out, I'm employin' 'em, to buy me ragby players. YOU BAWT 'OOOO?. LINEHAM? I'd ravver have got Des Lynham. An' Westerbleedinman. 'e was good abart 4 years ago. FREE ANDRED AND ODD FAHSAND PAHND DAHN THE BLEEDIN' PAN.. For that much, I coulda got an Ukuma Ta'ai, sam one from ve NRL, AND STILL 'ad change ...........

(he shakes his head)
......get ahhht of my office. YOU'RE FIRED.

(they shuffle out)

Free andred and odd grand. STREWF, VEY BETTER BE GOOD. Hull must be laughing their taters off"

Two good non quota players that will undoubtedly improve the squad. Couldn't care less how much we've paid. Gidley will guide this team round nicely.

My comments about splashing the cash were linked to a mentality that we could rely on a 'sugar daddy' or continual inputs of cash or 'soft loans / sponsorship' from directors (new or exisiting).

If we are making good profits then great - and I guess that's what Drapers job is linked to rather than the minutiae of the first team.

Underwhelmed.

So who should they have signed Lord Lefty, and how much should they have paid?