Hudds fans think that Darnell Macintosh has signed for fc.

Good signing if true. I think he'd be an improvement.

Where's this?

Yep.

Backline would look a lot quicker with him and Swift as wingers

Wonder if the rule changes will change the direction in which some teams recruit?

The lack of scrums and six again has quickened the game up. I suppose it depends what happens to the rule changes going forward.

Scrums back for me mate, it’s all right speeding the game up, but we seem to be perpetually defending, we berate ourselves for I’ll discipline, but every match they stick it to us.

For me scrums in rugby league are a complete waste of time and make rugby league a joke to other sports looking in.

They are uncontested, with the ball fed in diagonally through the props legs. Teams then rarely have any imaginative moves. Can’t remember last time I saw a team score from a scrum. Most teams only know the different miss move combinations out wide on the attacking left edge in general play. Very little originality, although last weekend Warrington did try several little chips over the top, which can quite often come off and open play up.

Would love to see a team score a try again from a runaround move after winning a scrum against the head, ala the 1982 Challenge Cup Replay.

So for me, unless they are going to have them contested, or at least have the ball fed in straight and a hooker ‘hook’ the ball, we might as well carry on as we are.

Most clubs top earners will be 150k +

Who will ours be? Reynolds, Taylor, Connor and Houghton?

Houghton on over 100k and he tackles and that's it!

Sneyd will be on over 100k aswell and I'd have Fages over him 100%

Don’t know if it’s just me but I don’t see what is so good about Fages, he looks ok in the St’s team but who wouldn’t with they way they are set up?

Agree on Houghton though as we need more than a tackle machine at 9 as our distribution and attacking threat in this area is poor, someone like Parcell would make a huge difference to our play.

I see your point Chris about Houghton but when we have started with Johnstone and Danny Houghton comes on off the bench we look a much better team.