A lot depends if Tomkins wants to play 6 or stay at fullback. Salford have their halves sorted with Chase and Dobson, so he'd play fullback there and you'd suspect Leeds and Hull would want him at standoff as Leeds have Hardaker and we have Shaul.

It may also depend where he sees his England future, where he will again compete with Hardaker and Chase for a fullback or standoff place.

He'd be a massive signing who'd out bums on seats and he is an XFactor player who does the unexpected...BUT i wouldn't want to sign him at the expense of sorting the other issues with the team, such as we need at least one if not 2 props if Paea goes.

Motu sounds like is on the way home , let's hope he had bagged us at least one good NRL player.

Happy with props if Paea stays and Taylor signs.

SKD and Pritchard would be perfect .

Shaul
Naughton
SKD
Talanoa/Sa
Lineham
Pryce
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Ellis
Pritchard
Mini
Westy

Paea
Cunningham
Thompson
Watts

I thought saints were interested in skd not so long back

Find it difficult to think SKD would even think about coming here. He'll get NRL offers and Saints are interested. He's only 27. Just don't think it's remotely realistic. Besides, a big experienced NRL centre? Since when have they been on our shopping list?

In his programme notes last night Pearson said he wants to bring in at least one player of "international standard that can bring us a bit of edge and something different, plus some experience".

Sounds like a forward and Pritchard would fit the bill for sure.

So what exactly makes a player "honest"? Lol. Cliched clap trap if ever I heard it. I'll have to keep my eye out for the " Most Honest Player in Super League" award at this years Man of Steel because I cannot remember who won it last year. Was it Houghton?

Hopefully the paea to leeds rumours aren't true as he's been carrying the other props all season. Also any news on HTW? OOC this season I think

He really has, outstanding. Apparently Taylor's impressing at Salford, but we really need both IMO.

We need both plus someone else. feka is rubbish and green and bowden not much better. Gut feeling is tony will come back with a prop signed and we will make paea a much reduced offer on his current contract and he'll leave.

Probably. Taylor, Watts, Green, Bowden would need upgrading for sure.

I think our props will be

Ellis
Taylor
Paea
Watts

Green
Bowden

The two above need to really up their game to get a new deal.

Don't agree about Feka being rubbish, very effective impact prop, but doesn't play enough minutes, although not sure if that is Radfords or Feka's fault.

Was worried about Paea leaving,but after his recent comments I think he will stay and Motu bringing another friend over might help.

Need to get HTW and a few other of the 19s signing up ASAP.

Maybe rubbish was a bit harsh but feka doesn't play enough minutes because he gets spotted in defence and causes us problems. We can't afford to carry a player in such a vital position unless they're a game changing "beast" of a prop who can shift momentum with 2 or 3 barnstorming runs. Bowden and green's workrate is nowhere near what I'd expect from a front rower. Not sure who decided which player takes the ball up when but neither do anywhere near the work of paea

Bowden is great in D. But doesn't offer much going forward.
Green was doing ok in the last couple before injury in my opinion. His metre stats were very good. But going forward I'd like Ellis paea watts taylor as a minimum with green n Bowden backing up. Ellis to prop providing we could find a line breaking back row

Feka is a crowd pleaser but only does 20 minutes work a game and I'm sure he will be going. I'm not at all convinced by Bowden and Green, especially Green and can't see either of them as more than back up and maybe we can only afford to have one of them. I haven't seen BTW but hopefully he will be better than either of them.