Without rumour this board would be boring, to be fair that only 2 or so hours a week, there could be a lot more to it, weather, school, family etc.

He can probably earn a fair wedge more back in the NRL too

If he does go I still think we would be a better balanced side without the need to shoehorn him into a role that has proven to be ineffective.
If they have the space and his family are wanting to be back home then it's pointless trying to keep hold of him especially as it's the only way we are going to have a chance to sign someone of note for whatever position that Radford feels we need to bolster.

Piece here from Australia not much new but he has a get out clause in his contract and it states that his main motivation is a Grand final ring c.newsnow.co.uk/A/856237717?-4338:2393:0

Piece here from Australia not much new but he has a get out clause in his contract and it states that his main motivation is a Grand final ring c.newsnow.co.uk/A/856237717?-4338:2393:0

Love the bloke but he just hasn't played to his potential. Will be sad to see him go but don't think its a massive loss to the 1st 17.

Leaves us a bit short in the forwards if he goes. I reckon we will bring in another prop to replace him.

Not if we're spending the cap on a winger and a stand off

As said another thread, gives us a chance to play some reserve forwards, thibkbwe look to have good depth in the forwards

Props
Watts
Taylor
Bowden
Green
Osborne
Matonga

Backrowes
Ellis
Mini
Manu
Washy
Tomo
Hadley
Fash
Turgut
Downs


That's 15 players, plus a couple of other young players like Silk and Lane, plus Litten to play hooker, plenty of cover.

A few of those can play prop or back row of hitch gives us options.

Yep. When we signed Frank we were already very strong in the back row. A year later and we are even stronger. Those young players have had a year training under Hatton and they will all be bigger and tougher than before. Even if we don't recruit another forward I am very happy with our pack.

agree he has been a success as an overall signing including marketing shirt sales, but performance wise I would put his value about the same as Bowden who is on 100k less so from a value in the cap point of view and bringing in the necessary players to move us forward next year to move him on early and free that money up and a quata spot to bring in a quality 6 for me would be a great move. I like Frank he is a great character and maybe this year he will be totally different some players need a year in England before they hit there top form so I would not be disappointed if he stays but I think we desperately need an off half to compliment Sneyd , I was kinda hoping that would be Brough so no one had to go

Maybe we're also going to be saving on a backloaded contract?

If Pritchards going (and he i hope hes not) then i hope he takes Tuimavave back with him. Not fit for first team in any position and the team would look a whole lot better without him in it

Bit unfair he's played out of position a fair bit for our club, we will see the better out of him if he gets regular game time at centre.

Not unfair mate, His NRL stats are none existent as quite frankly he was a bit part player. We signed him post last season when we was to be quite honest fighting around for scraps but then things changed. Abdull deserves to play before him as hes a better player and now weve got Conner who can play there too who is also better then an abundance of centres who are also better meaning Tuimavave isnt needed.

You don't just bin someone off because we've got better. It's upto them to push eachother, healthy competition, look at fetuli now he couldn't get a gig either.