TBF Dykes is probably a 'better' player than Dobson, it's just the fact Dykes' never played but when he did he was awesome imo.

Dead right, we needed to play the game and buckled under the pressure.

Didnt shifty miss nearly half of last season though through injury? and the odd game this season too

Just looked and he played 20 games last year and 9 so far this so his fitness is better the Dykes - as dykes played 12 but interestingly dykes made more tackles then shifty

This is what I am struggling with right now.

Prince - Signed a new deal this season.
Cronk - Signed a new 5 year deal last season.
Orford - Despite him being top class there is a chance he might just fancy SL. Last season he won everything there was to win both as a team and an individual. He won't play for Aus and probably won't get picked for Origin so he may be tempted to move.

I can't see us getting any of those three tbh and after that I am not sure who is available.

He was good, but 'awesome' he wasn't imo. Still think Dobson represents better value for money bearing in mind he plays every week.

Ok, I have asked this before, but why not Matty Head?

He seems to be injury free now, and available/ish.

Dobson proved how good he was at Catalan and Wigan, we should have signed him there and then. If we didn't have space on the cap for that year we should have given him what we had and made up the difference the following years.
Dobson is becoming a better player under an excellent coach as are most of the 'ordinary' players there, I don't think that that would be the case if he was here IMO.

exactly, nothing left for him to achieve, so lets make him an offer he can't refuse

one of the few 'name' players left in the game that would shift some shirts and passes as well

Orford.....warrington linked. Monaghan replacement.

The only thing is signing someone like Orford due to his age, he would only be here for about 2 seasons 3 max and then I would imagine we will be back to square one.

I'd take 1 season!

A lot can happen in 2 or 3 years and a top class 7 like Orford could play SL til at least 35/36.

Who is to say that if Orford signs for 3 years we wont have unearthed a really good local 17 year old 7 than can learn from him for 3 seasons then take over the reigns?

Time for our club to spend where needed i think!!