Tolouse have announced they have signed an nrl prop for the relegation battle.

Obviously seen our pack in action and know the weakness

They obviously realise that they must win their next game. It is a shame he is not applying through the U.K. home office for a work visa he would probably not get one until next season.

That’s exactly as I see it

The prop issue was obvious last season
That’s it’s not being sorted going in to this year beggars belief

It may be fantasy rugby league but if we could have got Dave and his brother Andrew on the pitch together
Arona and battye would have completed them really well on rotation

I think personally, at times we’ve panick bought some players just because they’ve become available, and the Gigot one was a perfect example.

With a low budget, we have to get the balance right and unfortunately, not got it right. We’ve been in need of a couple of quality props for a couple of years.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t agree with Gaskell instead of Rocky, and think Tashs’ contract extension was a little long, but other than that, 2 decent props, to replace Battye and Arona, I don’t think we’d have a bad squad. Whitbread isn’t flashy but gets through a fair bit of work.

Props are out there, as other clubs have managed to strengthen there. For me we desperately need one, that might just get us through. Would even look at deregistering Tupou, to free funds and a quota spot, for the right signing

First of all if you de register Tupou you would have to pay him up, solving nothing financially, this quota spot player you would want to replace Tupou with would come from where exactly? is there a club in this country that has a quota spot player available to us in the middle of the season, or would you dip into the bottomless pit in OZ we keep hearing about, bearing in mind the post below which I've put up as if true and I don't have a clue myself then it might not seem as easy as you think.

You make a couple of good points, it isn't that simple sometimes, and it's a juggling act at times. Does anyone actually have any info. re. Tupou's injury situation officially? I think it's a year ago in June when he got injured against Cas. Just on that, without wanting to bash the powers that be anymore! we did sign Langi didn't we, was he a replacement for Bill or not? Meaning if he had honoured his decision obviously we wouldn't have signed Hall, or at least I doubt we would have. Langi would have counted on the quota at the expense of who??

Bring back Pauli-Pauli

I think Hall might have been brought in more as a long term signing but ended up stepping up much earlier than anticipated?

I don't know why some are down on Hood. Before he got injured the forwards were working really well.

Because he was signed by CC seems to be the reason.

He's not the player I was expecting TBH (style wise) but he's been a decent signing all the same.