I've always thought he would be a Leigh player one day, as soon as PR got on the coaching ladder. I think PR sees a bit of himself in Coyle, a cheeky, opinionated, wind up merchant that gets in people's faces on the field. You could see the nods and winks between them every time we battered Widnes so there's a lot of recent history to remember there!

I think we have an abundance of back 3 forwards so maybe next season big Sam will be one of our interchange props.

Yesterday i'd completely forgot about Thornley so i doubt we will be in the market for another prop on contract,so we've got 5 props as i see it.

Personally I don't think 5 props is enough for a whole season. I'm sure we will be looking at a couple of DC's for cover and rotation but IMO 6 is the minimum number of props to have contracted to Leigh for any one season. Look at what happened last year with Bibey. All it takes is one serious injury and all of a sudden you only have 4 props for the rest of the year and can't afford any more injuries. Sure PR knows what he's doing and who he wants but i'd definately like to see one more prop signed up.

It would be nice to have a big unit to replace Bibey how intimidating was Ricky & Parker when on the field together. Some of our props aren't the biggest but in terms of numbers we do have 7 to use with Parker, Ostick, Thornley, Aspinhall, Hopkins, Duffy & Taylor then there's DC's to add to that so we have cover albiet I think Taylor & Thornley are better in't back row