Great news if true, Dorny:- London through and through.

Now all we need is Tommy and we will have the golden triangle again.

Put it this way, without naming names my source was from within the club and speaks to Dorny on a regular basis and told me after the Saints game he was coming back to London for next year.

Hopefully if true I will be proved wrong but this is a disaster IMO. We got the best out of him, was looked jaded towards the end and has gone downhill since.

Went downhill at Salford, but who didn't? Seems to be doing OK at Cas from what I've seen. Still missing tackles though.

See what i have put on our forum, I get a lot of stuff from inside the club and Luke Dorn is likely to be deemed surplus to requirements as Cas are chasing a couple of top Stand Offs from Australia

Right, so surplus to requirements at Cas, who are currently bottom of the ladder, so we will pick him up just because he played for us a couple of seasons ago and we feel sympathetic towards him, while Cas are looking for a decent stand off.

FFS.

We also have the problem we have just signed Ryan Mcgoldrick up to a ridiculous 4 year 100k contract so we cant afford to keep both players - As ryan is as good as Luke

Although a quality stand off would release ryan to the centre

You really are becoming the Forums very own grumpy old man ain't ya Can you really see the current coaching staff bringing Luke back for sentinemtal reasons ?

Btw in his "jaded" form towards the end he managed a hat trick on his last home outing in the 40-18 drubbing of........................................Salford.
16/09/06.

Last time I looked he was also in the top ten try scorers this season, not bad for a side at the bottom of the table.

Lister, you have become a joke.Why do you persist in knocking players? You are getting like that Aussie that was on here - the world of Loondon RL is not good enough for you. I suggest you go and follow Leeds or Saints and give us rest.

I'm with Dave on this, it's not a step forward. I like Dorn, he's a good strike player, but he's not going to give us the organisation we need to replace HP and Hill. I'd rather we used the money to find a good Australian halfback.

Really pleased by this, if true.

BUT ...

Dorn and McLinden are problem defenders in the line. The better defender of the two needs to play at 6. I notice that Dorn played at 1 earlier in the year for Cas - maybe Dorn at 1, McLinden at 6 and Orr at 7? Whatever the case, one of Dorn and McLinden will need to be well hidden and putting crap defenders at centre does *not* work.

well, I for one think he will be a handy squad player. Always liked his commitment and he scored some great tries when with us. Shame he didn't win anything on his trip up north, which was his "quoted" comment when he left for Salford. Mind you, if they had kept him on, he would now a have a cup winners medal

Compare Dorny's stats with the other SL stand-offs (including our current one) and they don't look at all shabby to me.

And another thing, Dorn has barely missed a game since he's been in Sl which is more than you can say for a lot of our players.

I'm beginning to really like players that you get more than half a season out of...

Mind you, I'll put up with Marty even if we only get one game out of him

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.