Just a quick one, as I've seen comments about it a few times now: Why is Radford getting the credit for Thompson when he was signed by Gentle/McRae? Did Radford identify him, or is it just part of a 'good recruitment = Radford/Tony, bad recruitment = Gentle/McRae' campaign?

Do think Miller should be playing sooner rather than later and Azza should stay at 9, not saying he has been bad in the halves so far. He also doesn't seem to play as long as Houghton when he is at 9, plays 30 odd minutes either side of half time, maybe swap him for starting at 9 and Houghton come off the bench?

Something else Radford has done the last few games, having Rankin come on for the last 20 minutes or less, seems a bit odd having a bench space taken up by a player who is only intended to come on for a short space of time rather than to spell with another player like the forwards do

I still think Miller can't now be played because of the cap, but I said that about Pitts, so who knows.

And just to add that Radford is also getting praise for nearly winning at St's, Warrington and Cas. All places that Gentle's side won at!

Signed under Gentle and not a lot of people, myself included, saw this as great signing particularly for a position we seemed to be well covered in. He has impressed so far, filling in at prop quite well, and thats probably where Radford is getting some credit, same with Bowden, looks a different player to last year

If Thompson really was as bad a signing as a lot on here would have us believe, then Radford deserves all the credit.

My starting HB pairing would have been Miller and Rankin and I would have given them and extended run together to allow them to gel. However it was obvious Radford wasn't going to play Miller from the lack of game time he was given in the friendlies.

Radford started with Horne and Rankin. Fair enough. We beat Cats and then lost two tough away games at Wire and Saints. Then just as we start a run of "easier" games Radford drops Rankin and starts Heremaia at half back.

After two matches of that we may have a change this Sunday. We are struggling to field two props so lets throw on Miller to play behind a weakened pack. A self-fulfilling prophecy if ever I saw one.

Miller counts on the cap regardless of whether he plays (assuming he is in the top 25 earners), the same goes for Shannon.

If not playing a player meant they were off cap then we would get a lot of backloaded contracts and players not playing in their final year.

As the caps live your right, if Miller and/McDonnel left before playing a game all their cap would be available.

if miller isn`t going to get a game how much would it cost to pay him off,and give him his airfare home,so he can kickstart his career,back in aus.

Depends what he wanted. Max is his current contract.

That would depend on whether he has an offer from another club. Unless he has another club to go to why would he leave at all? Would you?