Oh and thankfully it's not Ben Cross that we've signed, which was my initial thought!

Been told by someone that Andy Powell may well be heading to Broncos and that Wigan are looking at loaning out James Greenwood, brother of Saints' Joe. However, Greenwood played at South Wales last year so I would not be surprised to see him go to a Championship team instead of a Super League team.

Quote: Moe Lester "Been told by someone that Andy Powell may well be heading to Broncos and that Wigan are looking at loaning out James Greenwood, brother of Saints' Joe. However, Greenwood played at South Wales last year so I would not be surprised to see him go to a Championship team instead of a Super League team.'" Really www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/other- ... -by-a-tram

Quote: Moe Lester "Been told by someone that Andy Powell may well be heading to Broncos and that Wigan are looking at loaning out James Greenwood, brother of Saints' Joe. However, Greenwood played at South Wales last year so I would not be surprised to see him go to a Championship team instead of a Super League team.'" Really www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/other- ... -by-a-tram

problem with powell is he can't put the drink down, just look at the tweets from his wife. Wouldn't be surprised to see either Sam powell or George Williams going to you guys on loan. Both high quality prospects and real traditional half backs.

Would they let us have Sam Powell. Seems to have got some good game time in 2013?

I'd take him as we need size, and nothing wrong with a bit of brainless biff, well until he runs the wrong lines or messes up in defence, but we seriously need grunt as kids won't cart the ball out from under our own sticks.

Rossy is a rock to build upon, but Andy Powell may have to be the sort of quality that we can bring in on loan to give us 6 props in the squad.

well there is George Williams, Sam Powell and Ryan Hampshire all vying for game time in the halves and Sam powell is a little bit further on that Williams so i think he might get given a shot at london.

So we have:

Forwards; Ross, Foster, Moore, Griffin, Cook, Dollapi, Krasniqi and McMeeken.

Backs; Solomona, Mataitonga, Minns, Duckworth, Dixon, Agboke, Caton-Brown, Lovell, Macani, and Wickes.

Halves: Bishay and Woodburn-Hall.

I'm aware some can play elsewhere too, Bishay for instance is a better forward than a half-back. McMeeken is a better than Forward.

We're missing a couple of forwards for sure, the bench will be extremely lightweight without them.

If we are meant to$be getting a couple from either Wigan or Wire. then if so I wouldn't mind seeing Hampshire or O'Brien in the halves for us.
I'm unsure about props but Wigan fans seem to think greenwood is ok ,which is ok but still young. there was a prop at Wire who went out on loan to the Bulls last season Ben Evans who the bulls fan would like to see back there. so in a cock eyed way of looking at these options I would like to take the two props who fans like and seem to think will go well for them in the future..... I know.

Have they enquired as to Gaz O'brien's availability?

if they haven't then they are mad (then again this is broncos we are talking about lol). Hes a very good player and got a lot of bottle to. Looks strong in attack and don't mind getting stuck in on defence as well. plus hes got a good kicking game.

Would TS let him come to a club like London(as I always got the impression that London wasn't high of his Christmas card list to be polite), or would he prefer to keep him closer to home with a club up north to keep more of an eye on him for a quick recall if need be

Massive step in the right direction, another five players of this calibre and I think we can be competitive in the lower half of the table. Two experienced props, an experienced halfback, and a couple of experienced backs.

On the face of it, it sounds great that we have signed an experienced prop in Ross and I really hope he goes well for us. I just hope that TR has done his homework on this guy, his injury issues etc, as we have been taken for a ride before or at the very least had supposedly good players not live up to their billing. People normally retire for good reasons and I do wonder whether physically and mentally he will be in good shape to provide what we need. If he cannot do a job for us and spends the season on the sick bench, we will be royally stuffed. Lets hope he is of the same mould as Danny Williams, Hoppo etc and prepared to give his all.

Tend to agree, this seems the most promising signing to date.

Can we call him Bross?