Also saved a few tries aswell... But overall I think he's pretty stedy under the high ball but that's my opinion.

I honestly wouldn't go back in for Briscoe, he wouldn't come cheap having moved from FC to KR at a time they were throwing it about.

I'd personally like to see Phelps continue with a view to bringing through Josh Vievers if he continues to develop.

Briscoe is 27 next year, and would want a decent term contract on good money even if he would come.

The last thing i'd want to see is Josh faced with the same situation Shaun was in just before he left Wigan.

I think we just need to accept the Briscoe boat sailed

On the same note, it's why I don't want to see us going for a big money 7, i'd rather persist with TL playing alongside Sam, with a view to introducing Joe Mellor.

IL seems to share the same way of thinking. He said on the radio last night about not wanting to rush into signings and ending up with a repeat of the situation Briscoe was in. He doesn't want anyone to leave bcause they can't see a way they could make it into the team.

The development of Prescott, O'Carroll, Davies may well be part of the reason we are waiting until 2011 to bring in any props so as to replace Fielden, Feka or Coley rather than forcing a young lad to leave.

I think it's absolutely the right way to develop the club. Signings should be a small number of top quality players, and should always take into consideration the development and opportunites of the players coming through the academy.

It seemed to work out well for the Storm with bringing through the likes of Slater, Inglis and Folau (and even then the cap doesn't allow them to keep everybody).

As admirable as it is to have a team full of Wiganers, I don't think that approach will lead to silverware.

Looks for a statement that says we are "Going to have a team FULL of Wiganers"... FFS.

Apologies not a team full of Wiganers, more like 90%.

But having a team with promising youth brought through and developed in the right time and the right way, combined with some top quality signings is.

It's where most of the NRL teams have moved to, and it's also what leeds have been trying to do.

Sorry, perhaps I'm just getting impatient. How long do we wait for Vievers and Mellor and the like to develop and reach their peak? 5 years? 10 years?

The other problem is we haven't had any top quality signings since Barrett. This is what we are crying out for. At the minute we have some honest good Wiganers and in the main avergae Aussies. For these Wiganers to develop they need some experienced world class winners around them otherwise they will just get into the habit of losing.

I think you're being overly pessimistic if you think Vievers, Mellor, Thornley, Farrel etc are 5 years away.

And as for top quality signings, you can't sign somebody who's not availalbe. And to be brutally honest some of the signings made by other teams (just like we've done before) from the NRL are very average.

If SL wants to improve, and if we all genuinely want a strong England team that's going to seriously compete with Australia, then i'm afraid it's the only way to do it, which is exactly what IL seems to think as well.