Great Signing,

Will bring some much needed strength to our pack and a good replacement for Fitzgibbon in terms of presence. Plenty of minutes, Strong Defence and natural Leader, everything we were going to miss from Fitz.

Welcome Andy.

Very good signing.

4th highest meters gained player currently in SL.

And when you consider how poor Bradford are that is a highly impressive stat.

Lynch with O'Meley (needs a good pre-season) as starting props very happy with that.

I think i would prefer to keep with Moa and O'Meley starting with Lynch and O/Carroll/Radford off the bench, or the other way around. That we we keep an impact and grafter prop on all the time.

Would you not have done the same if you had the chance?

What's your valuation and what's it based on?

I heard we paid £50k for him which to me seems very fair.

Sporting Life quotes a 'significent six figure fee'.

Does it really matter what we paid for him? Pearson was happy to do so and could afford to do it. If he wasn't then Lynch would still be a Bull. BtW welcome aboard Andy.

IF Westerman was £125k then I agree with you, the £40/50k mark is decent value, he's a solid performer, nothing mre than that, but English props are at a premium.

It was the "significant six figure sum" that made me concerned, a small six figure sum is £100,000.

Anyway, we'll never know for certain, so this is all a bit pointless.

I’m happy with this signing. In fact if you look at the players going out and those replacing them in the same position then we do have a much improved squad for next year.

still need a 6 and a centre

Agree!

I think it has more to do with the team structure as a whole. A prop of his proven ability was needed (priority) for the betterment of the whole team. Do you spend all that money and then risk failure, because you wouldn’t pay that bit more for a much needed player? It may be 50k+ more than his actual individual value, but it could cost Person and the chances of the team’s success a lot more not to have him. He may end up being the difference between silverware, and also ran’s.

A player's transfer fee isn't really an indication of what he is worth as a player, but more of what he is worth to the club wanting to sign him. We need to strengthen in the forwards, Lynch is the man we believe is the best for the job and the fee reflects that.

Very good signing in my opinion.

I've checked his stats against Peacock and Morley and Carvell (and Dowes just to make sure)adjusting their data because he has played more games than most and his are way better than theirs overall. So, if he's nothing more than solid, neither are any of the others that I mention. Or was that your point?

Tbh I would say better than solid, only Graham made more yardage last season and only three players in total made more yardage. He has also just made the team of the year from the best stats.

He is among the best 5 props in SL imo.