He wont get a Visa

I understand you need some grafters in the pack but going into next season with Dowes , Cussack ,Thackery and Lauaki as our main props seems to weak .

Does that mean our (yet to be announced) greatest club signing since Sterlo, is not an overseas block busting prop?

I think it can compete. It's not the best but I won't be too disappointed if that is the case.

signing could be a centre !

2nd from bottom last season, plummeting like a stone this year says they can't to me. They are a poor unit, getting older and not getting any better.

Jordan Turner meant to be signing for next season.

He was always going to get an extension. His averageness is exactly what agar wants in the team. Still, we have seas long and a grade a licence so everything will be OK

Indeed. A very, very good player. We need a bit more grunt to compliment him and Dowes though. Lauaki (and Thackray, to an extent) will provide that, but we could really do with one more tackle-busting, hard-hitting prop.

No problem for me, good player and good character.

I would question some people's logic in that they say we have too many of Cusack's type of player, which is true, but...why would we seek to address this by releasing our best player of this type ...which Cusack definitely is.

As others have said, it depends on the final make up of the squad which we don't know yet.

As an aside, IMO we should be releasing Thackray. Yes we need "impact players" but we don't need an impact player who doesn't really provide a great deal of impact. And who also has plenty of other negative traits, both on and off the field.

Imo I think the club have gone for the old 'professional' approach with Cusack.
He is after all a very dependable prop who gives his all every game and also has no off field issues. We need this kind of player Imo, I am just not sure if he's worth a quota spot.

Next year's pack is looking poor. Unless they sign at least 1 more impact player then it will not be significantly better than this year's/ The addition of lauaiki and fitzgibbon will not turn one of the league's worst packs into one of it's best.

The signing of cusack does nothing to address the fact our pack is too small and regularly gets outmuscled