What's the point of a month?

I had hoped these signings were behind us.

To try and help the club win games this month.

The club had no other choice as we don't have any specialised FB's.

Lyne isn't good enough, and we need Horne and Seymour at halfbacks as the other two aren't good enough at the moment.

Indication of the clubs youth policy when your borrowing an 18 year old from the Pies.

Developing young players from the big clubs just shows you how far behind we are.

Whilst I agree, you can't have players in either position coming through, we have given game-time to a centre, halfbacks, props and backrow forwards.

We also have a winger and hooker who could come through.

FB seems to be a position we are struggling in at this present time.

Interestingly Luke Briscoe played a lot at FB for the youth teams and could have made his debut this year, instead of sat on the bench for Leeds under 20's.

What do we do in a month when he returns to wigan with 4 games extra experience in the bag?

Back to square one.

I'd imagine that we will have either signed a replacement or he will stay for another month.

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Sign him for another month or play Horney there? It's evident that Gentle doesn't think Lyne is up to the job and it wasn't exactly in the plans for McKinnon to go back. I'm not a huge fan of loan spells either, but had Lyne/J.Briscoe/whoever had more 1st team experience in the past couple of years we wouldn't be in this position.

A replacement or an extension of Russels loan ?

Injuries permitting I think Wigan will allow this to keep being extended as long as that's what Hull and the lad want.

I think he'll go very well. This lad is electric in attack and will rack up plenty of breaks, tackle busts, metres and try's. The one thing you'll need to be is patient in defence. I've not seen any huge issues with his one on one defence but his positional play and dealing of kicks needs some work. The lads 18/19 though so that's not unexpected.

Looking forward to watching him.

Sounds an exciting prospect, looking forward to seeing how he goes, regarding his defense if any-one can improve this area Gentle is the man, done wonders for some of our lads who were lacking in this area.

Hope so mate.

If he develops his defence then he can be top class. His attack brilliant to watch.

Is the lad not a natural full back? has he played some/most of his junior rugby in another position, hence why he maybe a bit off with his positional play?

Totally agree, unless there is the remotest chance of him moving here permenantly i just cant see the point of this signing at all. Why develop a rival clubs player for them for him to come back and bite you in the a** a few years down the line, we should play one of our own youngsters, this was one of the reasons they did away with relegation from SL wasnt it? so clubs could develop their own players?