Good signing,and personally I am happy enough with a one year contract. I have always had reservations about giving shall we say "more experienced" players long contracts,preferr the club to keep options open with players who may be more susceptible to long term injuries ?. I have no real evidence of this to be honest,just a theory thats always stayed with me.

As I put on another thread...

[iThink our quota/non-fed players are Southern, John, Smith, Aiton & Collis. Lauitiiti, Mellars & Tony were all off quota. Agar's quoted as hoping to bring 'two or three' of his overseas targets in. I guess we are trying to shift John as well as I can't see the other three going anywhere unless for some reason Collis is going.[/i

Jeez, can't believe I missed him off!

The problem is jonh this has all the hallmarks of being Troncgate II, given the comments attributed to Thurling in one of the papers down under, he would not be coming over out of choice and would likely want to go back if he was playing well enough to attract a contract offer from the NRL.

That's the only thing that concerned me from the original article that it said he was reluctant- do we really want a player with a risk like this?