Ouch, sore point there

Have to agree 100%. Dorn is a fine strike player but is not a creative standoff which is what we need. Salford made that mistake when they signed him to replace Dunniman and got relegated for it.
We must replace Hill with a quality playmaker. If Cas can find one then surely we could. We have some fine young athletes coming through but they are not ballplayers. Fine if Mac makes a full recovery and plays in the halves but I think Dorn will struggle if he expects Orr to create chances for him let alone create for others. Is there no one in NL1 like the guy at Whitehaven pushing for a chance.

2 people have agreed with me so i'm not alone in thinking this. It seems that many on here are prepared to accept mediocrity year after year. I want the club to move forwards and make progress and Luke Dorn is not what we should be looking at.

Dorn is a proven try scorer snd a reliable goal kicker, that is sufficuent to get him in the side. As regards his defence I expect the coaching team to improve that, that's what they do. Dorn will not fill all the deficiencies in the team, we will after all be losing three playmakers, but he is part of the jigsaw and if he is good enough for Brian Mc, he is good enough for me!

We will not except mediocity, that is why we are so vocal in out support, it is called encouragement. We need quality, 100% per cent players, Dorn is in that category.

Maybe you could suggest players, who (a) will come (b) we can afford and (c) meet your standards. I won't hold my breath

I stopped reading here

I've always liked Dorn, agree with the earlier posts that Salford were stupid to replace Andrew Dunneman with the very individually minded Luke Dorn.

Brian Mac played Dorn at 7, and he looked real good there, free of responsibility and ran around like a crazy person.

Now Hill seems to run all of our wider running plays, and Dorn would fit the bill as a 6 there.

He would be a popular return to London, not exactly gonna make headlines, but he appears to be one of the best and most realistic players we have been linked with.

It appears we are going to go Australian, and Dorny already playing for us and in England for many years knows the difference between the European game and the NRL.

Dorn has shirt no. 1 at Cas and that's where he started the season. But Matterson soon realised that it wasn't a good idea at all and moved him to the halves where he belongs. It was about as successful as TR's experiment in playing Dennis Moran at full back a few seasons ago.

rl... and here's another "old boy" who may be in line for a return?rl Don't think so.

Wouldn't touch him with Wigans barge pole!

poplar panther must be getting excited about a possible return for this world class forward who can tackle well.

Oh he'd be more than welcome. Sign for us and then get an offer to play in the NRL, can't believe we didn't ask for something in return for him from North Queensland, he plays every week out there

Not sure what to make of this. Part of me thinks that second spells are rarely as productive as their first and I don't honestly think he's developed as a player [ithat[/i much since leaving us. On the other hand, we're plainly unable to compete for the big australian players, so maybe its a case of making the best of what we've got.

Can we stop pretending that either HP or Scott Hill are 'organisers'. Neither is or has ever been a first receiver. So we don't necessarily require a first receiver to replace either of them.