The problem with that is Dixon is flawless under the high ball in training and the warm up, I think the best thing to do is give him more support from the centre and fullback where possible.

I for one like Dixon and was in the minority that wanted to keep him at rovers (although he was on a massive wage apparently) if he's used correctly the amount of tries he'll score will far outweigh the ones he gives away, sometimes you just have to shrug and say ah well that's Dixon and get on with it, something a lot of our supporters just couldn't accept

Maybe he is like a lot of the northern lads and misses his mummy and had to come home to be close to the apron strings

I think it is something like that.

Bit of both I think. KR released him but once released he was keen to head south. From memory he openly stated he wanted to be nearer his young child, based down south. Totally understandable.

We've got a few decent backs now, it shouldn't be too difficult to give him the required cover. If he gets his confidence up to a reasonable level he'll be an asset at this level. He's seemingly mentally strong, fighting back from being released at 16, a potential career ending injury and Wembley already. I'll be surprised if he isn't in the running for player of the year.....

Kear is excellent under the high ball and Williams not bad either and this is the problem...teams will always avoid kicking to Kear if they can and target Dixon. A lot of games this season will be close affairs and defence can be the difference between wining and losing. Dixon has improved and needs to continue this improvement. Hendo will have no mercy picking somebody else if not.

Dixon's tryscoring will far outweigh anything he gives away.

Exactly my point

Over a season that is likely. The concern is the tight games against the better teams when he will be the go to player, that could cost us the crucial 2 points or MPG.......

How did our former player Purtell, Pitts and Sammut play for you? In my opinion you have got a couple of cracking players in Pitts and Sammut! Purtell is a bit slow though now a days.

Purtell was pretty quiet but decent in defence.
Sammut was Sammut, brilliant one minute then hitting the post from practically in front.
Pitts is the one that impressed me the most.
Made numerous breaks/half breaks and was difficult to put down.
According to our coach himself, he's a Super League player.

I think the Bulls have got the rough end of the stick with what we've sent them!

As the season goes on you may find yourself becoming frustrated with Purtell! Yeah Pitts is one that we are devastated to have gone. His awareness is class and his ball running speaks for itself. I think in his two seasons at this level he scored 11 and 14 tries.

Pitts has been a 'beast' the two times I've seen him - brilliant signing. Purtell, because of his experience, will be used more-and-more for coaching, so far very solid on the field, but no fireworks. Sammut has fitted into the squad really well, certainly better than the Soward of last season, and he could take a bit of a ribbing about that last missed conversion after the Swinton game. All-in-all 3 excellent signings but are they enough to help get us back to SL level?

As far as I can see our squad is good enough to finish in the top two.
The middle 8s is where it is all at and could be very interesting, we have space to recruit an overseas player in the way Soward came to us. so we could add a new dynamic to the squad. then we need to go hunting the weak Super League teams.
To progress we must at least make the MPG.

Middle 8s simple formulae win all yr games against the other championship clubs and beat one super league club then let someone else fight out 4/5. But yep this year I think we need to be aiming for one of those mil pound game slots, that's where it gets hard tho with 2 strong teams vying for top 2 in championship it means we need one of the SL teams to have a mare.
I do think this is where a flaw in the super 8s comes up though, getting in players like Soward for example just for that part of the season to strengthen the squad, everyone does it, I can see the introduction of transfer deadlines coming in like football if we stick with the system.