Entitled to your opinion BELLY but very bold statement, I'd love to agree but don't see players like this ending up at Wakefield currently.

If we still had Williams this year I think we would have won at least 3 or 4 of those close games, the guy was so underrated by most of our fan base.

Then surely that's all the more reason to keep Hampshire, instead of creating a quota spot at the expense of Tinny Arona.

Agree really, I would say with a real top quality half (Gale or even Brough standard) that we would be a team that could challenge for the top 4. However it would be a gamble to sign an unproven Aussie or one with injury problems, particularly when we have a young hungry half who clearly has potential. Personally think the squad would be better if we retained Arona and signed a back up to Miller and Rocky that doesn't take up a quota spot as has been suggested.

On Sam Williams - agree that he had a touch of class and a lot of his good work went unnoticed.

I thought Williams was a good player Alftofts Wildcat, and should have been given more game time to play alongside Miller.

Opposing sides knew he was a threat, as every time he had the ball, they were rushing to close him down.

Those 3 or 4 close games, we could have won, we could be really within touching distance of the top 4, especially when Warrington have beaten us twice by small margins and also Castleford and Hull at Easter.

It’s going to be interesting to see how the Jowitt/Miller/Hampshire combination goes in the upcoming super 8’s.

If you dig down and analyse how we’ve gone when these three have played it could be decent going forward...

We lost the first 3 times they played together...Hull (a) 26-27...Leeds (h) 26-28...and Cas (a) 4-24...another factor through that spell though could have been big Dave missing those games as he’s a huge influence on the way our pack plays...could those two close defeats have been wins if Dave had played, quite possibly so?

Since then they’ve played together 6 times which has brought 4 wins, 1 draw and a 30-32 defeat at home to Warrington...in amongst that period Finn has been brought back in twice for defeats to Huddersfield and Catalans...

I think there’s already enough evidence to say these three could be a success going forward...I imagine the next 7 games will tell us more...

Up to a month a go I reckon a huge percentage of fans were screaming out for us to go get a big money 7...have things changed a bit now though and is the solution already here in Hampshire?

Arona was looking like the casualty of we were to go for a quota player, but if we stick with Hampshire and Miller and we can get Arona to stay on a deal that suits us then that would be fantastic as we know what we get week in week out with Arona and for me that’s massive...

That would just leave us to find some cover but there’s still Grix who could slot in and maybe even Woody if we’re really stretched or Even Finn for the odd game...