Very true about brough. Don't think many giants fans had much time for him when we signed him and look how that one turned out. Im more comfortable with our spine as it is, but im not going to doubt what Anderson thinks best.

in anderson we trust!!

many wrote off ferres when we signed him

Aye Ferres always caught my eye whenever I watched Cas but no way could I ever of imagined he would of made the impact like he did.

In Anderson we trust!!!

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They might have shown an interest, but he's not going.

Apart from any other information, we complained all last season that we hadn't enough props, so why should we let one go?

Where there's smoke there's fire? Not in this case.

There is smoke here for sure but Phil Wilkinson also went public on the Paul Wood to Wigan rumour which never happened.

Twitter has a lot to answer for!

wigan have shown interest.. upto anderson if he lets patrick go, maybe will if he wants sammut..

for now patrick is off to portugal with the rest of the lads for pre season warm weather training in the morning!

Just remember guys Wigan can now buy who ever they want within reason, they are cashed up and Huddersfield are not in a position financially to turn down a large cash offer if he wants to leave as he would leave next next season without a fee, financially it makes sense to move him on if the price is right, ask Hull KR with Taylor and green.

Larne is signed up till end of 2016. www.giantsrl.com/news/article/13 ... erm-giants So think we have the power really. I don't think money is an issue really with Uncle Ken, cant see him grabbing cash at this stage of his investment. Only reason we will let him go in my eyes is if Anderson sees fit or he really wants to go. Its a slightly different financial situation at Hull KR than at the Giants. Of which I for one relly appreciate!!!

Larne is signed up till end of 2016. www.giantsrl.com/news/article/13 ... erm-giants So think we have the power really. I don't think money is an issue really with Uncle Ken, cant see him grabbing cash at this stage of his investment. Only reason we will let him go in my eyes is if Anderson sees fit or he really wants to go. Its a slightly different financial situation at Hull KR than at the Giants. Of which I for one relly appreciate!!!

Phil Wilkinson gets his stories off the Wigan Warriors Rumour Mill. Look closely and you will see that nothing has been mentioned by the club, least of all confirmed.

Its just lazy reporting!

Correct. Phil Wilkinson is a clown who is robbing a living as a journalist.

As do the majority of them.
Two years ago id be really upset by the thought of larne being targeted by Wigan. Now I'm not that bothered. Players want to stay at the giants but if the club are willing to let him go then that's fine by me- it's been a while since we lost a player who hasn't been replaced by as good or better- or who we have missed- even longer since we lost a player because we needed the money. If we can cope without Luke o Donnell, Patrick going is not going to be an issue.
If he stays let's hope he has an improved season and contributes to the same for our team.

Firstly I wouldn't want larne to go, a mobile explosive player who gives it his all, a certain in my 17 man squad!

However if we did lose him to Wigan we have to look at the options we have at prop.
Eorl and koppy starting props, big lads able to do big minutes.
Kafusi would say a interchange prop who can replace either of the starting props without losing anything
Mullay big lad who didn't make the mark I thought he would last year a certain work in progress for the club but could feel more game time would be great for him.
Taai a very big aggressive lad, in comparison to Patrick he isn't a agile or as fast but would say bigger, stronger and more of a chance to offload in the tackle.
Fuey, yes fuey, the times he filled in at prop he really surprised me. Didn't take a backwards step and managed to make some decent metres.
So if Patrick left would we have enough with eorl and koppy interchanging with kafusi and taai? I think so.

If Patrick did go it would be a very clear message by the club that one of Mullally, Mason or Johnson was ready to step up to be pretty much a full time prop.

Unless one of those is ready NOW then we have to keep Patrick.

We can not go into the season with three props, an untried Ta ai and a utlity back ( fooey) as our main props.

The one thing about many teams recruitment over the season was to build their packs up ( ie look at Saints recruitment).

Next year will be a hard year for the forwards and so we need a good squad of forwards ( even though i think Patrick has been fairly ineffective as a prop compared to a couple of years ago ).