Think he will be quite successful given the amount of 5hit he has worked with this year

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I would take Manu , Briscoe (must travel down under ) , Houghton . That's it nobody else . For me a lot boils down to recruitment and HFC should be looking at imports who are of similar standard to previous excellent ones e.g Kearney and Swain .
Assuming Long has one more year left in him then either you recruit a young lad from the academy or start looking for an experienced number 7 quick.

I heard recently that Longy has an option for a third season, linked to appearances.

He expects it to be activated.

Anybody know if this fact or fiction ?

nope

this season i would like cusack,calderwood,dowes,radders and burnett all to go with a young halfback, a top quality centre and prop to come in. then for 2012 is when the major transfer will happen with fitzy,long and berro most likely all to leave theres some money.

With the money we've got spare I'm guessing we could bring in 2 big players.

I bet we don't.

I would like us to go for Jason Taylor!!

It won't be through lack of effort.

Exactly!

I wonder how many Wigan players were classed as 'dead wood' before Maguire took over?
I wonder how many Warrington players were classed as 'dead wood' before Smith took over?

Excellent point

Horne, Washbrook, Yeaman, Radford, Dowes. 80% of which is the mainstay of our fantastic crop of local talent !!!

Most of the quality players are already signed up and apart from that i think most of the so called deadwood are not actually deadwood. We have shown this year that bringing in 3 or 4 quality players made no difference to the way we play the game.

If it's ball players it does.