Extremely underwhelmed!

Let's hope and pray Rich's signings produce for us otherwise it'll be a long 2012.

Where did I say that? The talk was of a Manu type player or even Dale F, but this is average to say the least! Very underwhelming. For me it's the worse signing of the off season.

In fairness the old regime had the full cap to work with, AP has come in late on.

Very surprising.

Martin and Aspinwall are both risks but they could turn out to be shrewd signing? If the don't turn out well they only have one year contracts so will be moved on.

In: Tony Martin, Jamie Ellis, Andy Lynch, Eamon O'Carroll, Wade McKinnon, Aaron Heremaia, Brett Seymour, Martin Aspinwall.
Out: Epalahame Lauaki, Danny Washbrook, Lee Radford, Sean Long, Craig Fitzgibbon, Ewan Dowes, Cameron Phelps, Mike Burnett, Martin Gleeson, Sam Obst.

Maybe.

Can Obst play second row, Dave? He adds depth and competition, gone from first string to second string. Not inspiring, but experienced back up.

Again, another case of fans believing their own hype.

AP/July - ''We need to bring in one or two top players and try to push on. We've got some good targets in mind to bring in.''

True but surely we would have being better with one (quality) new player than 2 average player in Martin/Aspinwall.

I thought the day's of average was behind us.

You got him.

We've got three quality backrowers, supposedly a couple of young playeds pushing for first team selection and a general agitation for the latter to get more chances. This signing brings in very experienced back row cover but not a signing that would signal a lack of opportunity for the academy players. Seems quite sensible to me. I'm not a big Aspinwall fan at all, but understand the signing in the context of our squad.

Absolute sheite signing. We get promised big name signings and cas and crusader cast offs is what we get

Has he still got his tag on?