Not questioning the signing because I've never seen him play but how does it work? According to reports this was put in place when MA was coach and previous owners. Presumably Powell is ok with this??

No easy games next season to ease ourselves into the league , everyone n their dog will want a piece of us and take the points . Going to be a torrid few games to get up to speed I suspect, let’s hope the fixture list is kind .

Seen Storton a few times now and he will be a good signing for us on the left edge. Does seem to be spelled a bit so I suspect we may carry someone like Vagana/Scott on the bench to come on for him or vice versa.

Happy with our second row options in Storton, Niketemo, Scott, Mckmeeken and Vagana if needed.

I think Scott will be starting right centre

Storton got through some work early on before swapping with Kelepi. I'm not sure if they spell Storton for Storton or Tanginoa.
He also plays right which is handy.

I imagine he and Niketemo will start with Vagana on the bench but it would be nice to have Batch back on yesterday's showing.

What gives you the impression Batchelor wants to leave HKR? I certainly dont see anything other than a guy whose loving it in east hull moreso than during his time here.

I don’t think PT’s saying Batch is coming back, so much as it would be nice to have him back.

On the above, I’m not bigging us up so much as predicting league finishing places. I’m not bigging Wigan up by saying they’ll finish top again. And I’m not slagging Cas off by saying they’ll finish bottom. It’s quite easy to spot trends on which clubs will rise and fall, with the odd surprise here and there.