It amazing what a derby victory/loss can do.

just shows you cant believe everyone can you it was a work colleague who told me about it ive just listened and he doesnt say anything does he? apart from alot of agents coming to the club to see if we would show an intrest
and they do that just to get that player a bigger contract from another club 90% of the time
they will obviously be signings but who? my list of priority
1-stand off
2-fullback
3-prop
4-prop
and a few squad players

If both Gentle and Mcrae have said Horne will be moving to fb, then I can't see us signing one.

We've got the salary cap to take into account and having Horne, who i'm guessing is on a fairly decent wage, as a squad player wont work.

With Bulls looking like going into administration I would be looking at some of there players. Bateman will go to Wire and Burgess abroad but Kopzack is an option at prop and Lulia at .

I really don't think centre is a priority next year.

I'd rather sign Kearney who is miles better FB than Horne.

I'd also look at Whitehead as a long term replacement for Tickle.

Hull Daily Mail linking us to Oliver Elima

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Elima's quite a good player and would fit the mobile pack Gentle is said to favour. He's no replacement for Moa, though, if he's being considered as a prop.

He has to be considered as prop, we shouldn't be spending more money in the back row.

Our squad needs balance.

Elima is a good strong player, my main concern would be he seems to be a bit undisciplined and we don't really need another player who gives away stupid penalties.

Kearney might be better than Horne at fullback but he's a poor option imo.

Elima decent player but not sure using him at prop, rather have a recognised prop also seems to give penalties away

Imentioned Elima the other day after hearing about him at the weekend and I was disappointed with it tbh. He's a penalty machine which is the last thing we need. A Bradford fan told me last night he is expected to go back to Catalans.

They type of names i'm hearing are not exactly mindblowing tbh. McDonnell, Kearney, Crookes, Elima, Holdsworth, Watts and add in to that Pitts some decent players but not exactly what AP talked about and certainly not the sort of players that will see us challenging. It's definately going to be a long haul for us before we are challenging for trophies.

I'd rather sign McDonnell than Kearney as a fullback. His pace is better and he is a younger option. Also think Kopzack is a far better prop than Elima so I would be looking at him even if it involves a small fee.

I don't understand the point in picking off average sides average players.

Quite. That's what we've largely been doing for the last few seasons with predictable results. Not exactly the change of direction indicated by AP when he took over.

Agree with all of that Paul,

I like McDonnell,wouldnt mind Lovegrove or Kopczak either, but Kearney and Elima, no thanks.

IF Warrington's offer for Chase £300,000 was rejected,as much as we need Chase, he certainly aint worth that amount of money.- even if we did offer the same fee as Wigan and Warrington,he'd probably go to either of the big guns anyway.