Thats a big if for someone who only played a handful of games when over there, and not set the game alight over here. I'd agree with you it would be best all round though, just dont think its very likely

miles greenwood ??? would be very surprised at that coming off or being true.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Winitana out of contract strike centre who would come cheap and can score tries

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Winitana out of contract strike centre who would come cheap and can score tries

I think people have expected far too much of Simpson, combine that with only a handful of starts I find it strange that so many have made a final judgement on him.

I saw enough at Leeds to be confident that given a pre-season under Nathan Brown he could be a good player.

There is a reason Nathan Brown signed him, I just think we are yet to really see it.

I thought it looked more like a Thewlis signing ala Korkidas and Finnigan, than a Nathan Brown signing to be honest. My opinion is that if we sign from down under they should be Origin or International quality. We have plenty of British 'Simpson' quality players on the books. Nothing against the lad, but he is not of the quality we need in the backs.

So Possible Players to leave are:

Griffin to Leeds ( not sure whats going on with this )
Kirmond to Cas ( Rumour on Cas Boards )
Raleigh to Hull KR ( Rumour )

Possible Ins:

Greg Eden ( Likely )
Luke George ( Likely )
Chris Heighington ( would love to see him at Giants it but i doubt we could afford him )
Ben Flower ( can see if Griffin goes to Leeds )

Where does the Heighington rumour come from. Apart from the fact he is a good player and has a British passport i have not seen any link and as far as i know he has just extended his contract at Wests.
If Hodgson leaves and George comes in that leaves us in the same position as this year for senior backs. Eden would be more of a project player who would not be considered first team initially. It may also be the case that Lawrence is used more in the forwards next season.

there was an australlian site a few weeks back that said Heighington is been tracked by several english clubs for 2012 and has been given permission to speak to them - we were one mentioned, ill try find the link

I really don't see us having much money spare for big overseas signings, personally. Hopefully in the next 3 or 4 years we're going to see more and more young home grown lads push through and long term this is surely the best way to go as the NRL cap increases which in turn will help them retain their best players.

it was Leeds or Widnes but he decided to stay in NRL

There is no reason not to have announced the Giff move. I'm going to assume it's not happening till it's official from the club.

Thought he was one of the few players who played well against Salford - and he had a difficult comeback playing at a few different positions in that game.

Having just watched super league supermen, I thought that Sam tomkins came across quite well, so Nathan now has my permission to sign him as a giant.

A rumour from a workmates daughter who works/knows someone at Fax,,,dunno if there's anything in it but thats what i heard