Agreed but i cant see him getting in ahead of Sammut or Godinet.

it may work out that we can spell mcshane by bringing him on and moving godinet to hooker

Or is he a straight replacement for Sykes? Who is no spring chicken any more.

I'd have thought that was sammut doing that. Godinet was brought over to be a half back. I'd imagine he'd be mightily ed off if we shifted him to hooker, and ed off players are not what we need in a relegation season. I'd suggest we went for Siejka, then the opportunity for sammut arrived and was too good to pass up. At least it's depth.

Pointless signing. Nigel Wood's proposal is already setting back the development of home grown kids in this country. Will the total cost of Seijka's salary surpass Kay's demands. I suspect so.

Just have to hope that the extra cash in the game is used to develop British players. We were just starting to see the benefits to the game as a whole.

The clubs at the top will continue to develop juniors. The clubs at the bottom will, as before, look overseas instead. The only difference now is the quality will be lower.

I know I am going to regret this... But:

I am sick of you all creaming over Wildie and lamenting the loss of Bobby Goulding who on heir best days are nowhere near the quality of Harry Seijka...

Great player to have in the squad...

No ones mentioned them on this thread have they?? Certainly all I have said is that I can't see how he will play unless there is an injury or we godinet off by moving him to hooker. I've also stated I think it's been a mistake getting rid of licensing and hope the RFL invest heavily in developing British kids. Don't turn this into another goulding/wildie debate

Never creamed over wildie blighty old boy just thought he's been badly used at the club given a chance here an there usually in games against strong opposition to save our senior players for easier games .Goulding if you check my posts when he signed I said it wads a mistake having seen him several times with warring tons academy.now harry I haven't seen I'll take your word for it but he'll have to be quality to justify a signing in my opinion

We are under the high ball as it is. Why compound it? Defence is 50% of the game. I'm really surprised people don't appreciate it as much as they should. We need to be solid under the ball to allow us to attack.

That he was kid that showed great talent and did not live up to his potential?

I am not slating the signing don't know anything about him other than what most others know, could be great could be poor who knows? All we can hope is that the club have planned for his arrival and how he will be integrated into the team. I doubt that he will be here to sit in the stands so the most likely scenario for me is, Godinet to provide impact hooker option with Sammut at 7 and Siejka at 6.

While I think Mathers is a poor player he does seem to be a leader and you need leaders in a dogfight so I doubt he will be dropped.

wait and see mate