Washy is invaluable to the squad. I'm not against the other two, but they have bigger question marks. Im a big fan of Talanoa, but his injury record of late is a concern. And I've already made my case about Minichiello. Not against either signing, but I think if it was up to me I might have explored other options, especially in Mini's case.

I assume one guy that will be leaving is Michaels. Although he shouldnt have too much trouble finding another SL club.

I think to replace both Ellis and Mini in one season would have been near impossible, I see your point about Mini, but hopefully less minutes will improve his game.

I think with Fonua leaving, keeping Talanoa makes sense.

Washbrook makes sense as he will be cheap and can play numerous positions.

I was reading about Albert Kelly this morning, and it turns out Greg Inglis is his cousin! It would be rather splendid if GI joined us for 2018... we can always dream!!!

I will be disappointed if both Fonua and Michaels leave and only BJB comes in.

We will have Naughton back and also Rawsthorne will be more experienced.

I think Griffin might end up on the wing, with Connor and Carlos first choice centres and Logan also coming back to challenge.

Near impossible to replace Fonua with similar quality, as others have said, BJB is having a good season and offers real pace and skill, but lacks power to be a Radford type winger.

I'll be fairly disappointed if Motu Tony relocates the whole squad to New Zealand.

If Tala staying. Griffin to wing would be my 1st choice. Makes similar metres. Got an offload. Can play centre.
Means running with the same personel as this year but with Mahe money spare for a forward. If hull had say for instance Moors this yr. I'd chuck all my money on us being champs. All we lack imo

Willie Manu in this side would make us a title winning side. Still not had anyone like him

I agree with that.I thought he was very poor at Widnes but he does tend to be overplayed by Radford.
Personally i think he is a better option coming off the bench like Ellis is.

Mini and Ellis are fast approaching the end of their careers. I don't think we could cope with them both going at the same time. We would lose too much experience and leadership in one go. Their departures need to be managed. Personally I would give Mini another year because he is fitter and we get more game time out of him than Ellis, who is increasingly injury prone and who we should let go at the end of this season.

Totally agree. Mini running like he does at tired defences, whilst himself staying fairly fresh for his stints in defence sounds ideal to me. I think he still has another year in him after this one, and not to forget we have a very good, relatively young 2nd rower ready made to step in and cement a starting spot for us in Dean Hadley IMO (not to mention the emergence of Fash & Turgut who've really impressed this year).

mini hasn't reached his previous high standards this season IMO. His defence has always been a bit suspect but he's less effective with ball in hand so far this season but may be how he's being played