I nicked it off the Saints board.

Am I missing a trick or is the salary cap going to remain unchanged for next season ?

It's great that AP is making noises that there are futher big signings to come (to add to G.Ellis)
but it begs the question will we have to also show the door to some players who most fans seemingly would now like to keep ?

I'm thinking of players like Aspinwall, Turner, Ogre & Moa (accept these 2 may go anyway), and perhaps even Whiting and Manu. Lets face it, Martin and Burnett are not going to free up much cap space if it has not already been allocated to Mr Ellis.

Personally, on current form I'd love to keep Turner, with him and Yeamo as 1st choice centres and Arundel seemingly coming as cover. Does that just leave one or two props to now get signed up ? (1 rising starlet from SL and 1 big name from NRL perhaps).

Just throwing a name into the ring here, but we may be after a centre and not knowing whats happening with Turner. Willie Tonga? I reckon he could be tempted away from Parra!

How could you tempt a player whos getting paid as a rep player away from Parra?

Yeah my bad, late night typo.

It certainly would be an interesting sight to see him stretching his legs down the sideline though.

Speaking of Cordoba, how's he doing now because I know he got a pretty bad injury a couple of seasons back.

I remember him getting into a fight in about half the games he played for us, including the derby, which was quite amusing.

With Arundel coming and IF Turner stays then along with Yeaman we have three centres so we won't be signing an overseas centre.

Has this been announced?

Can't announce it until Spetmeber can we? presume there will be a compo payment for cas at some stage

No, like Jake says they can't announce it yet.

Guy I was talking to last night said we're trying to sign Lopini Paea from Catalans. He'd be impressive next to Sam Moa!

Got told a few weeks ago he could be linking up with his brother at Rovers.

rovers bound apparently

Nah, we can announce it if it had have happened. IIRC we announced the signing of Sean Long around may/june time.


The ruling, I think, is that you can't approach an OOC player until September unless the player's club has given you permission to approach the player beforehand.

So the only way we could have signed Arundel would be if Cas have given us permission to talk to him and he has accepted.

To get rid of Turner and bring in Arundel would be foolish, IMHO.