I agree, I'd love to be pumping out young players on a conveyor belt like Wigan, Leeds and Saints, but we'd have to have had this improved academy in place for about 6 years already if we wanted to be seeing results now, which since that was about our 3rd season in Super League after a long absence from the top flight, would be an unrealistic expectation, I think.

Spot on, and faux outrage sums it up perfectly. Dress it up how they like, it's just inter club point scoring. With the injuries we have and the difficulty in finding any SL quality forward at this stage of the season we should be very happy with this signing.

Well said.

At the risk of repeating all that's been said before including by me, our current front row crisis is unprecedented and our back rowers are below size by SL standards.

We have no props who can make the step up from the U19s at the mo. So TP is and will be a good acquisition and we have to be grateful that Salford have cocked up on their overseas signings this year.

Finally, well done to Dave K for getting us to almost 10 pages on this thread. Shame you're a Derty berd, though. You need some re-lobotomising to get rid of your dark side tendencies.

As much as I'd like to see A teams brought back, it could open a right can of worms salary cap and running costs wise.
Would there be a limit on salaries paid in the A team? If not would this enable the richer teams to run with bigger squads, or would money paid to "A.N Others" count on the main cap.
It's all sortable, but looking at the way the clowns in charge run our game you've got to wonder.

I think this could be a good acquisition by Rovers .....Being the consummate professional that Puletua is, I don't think he would like his last year within the game to be tarnished with the dispute he had at Salford. I think he would like to go out with a bang and finish his career with memorable performances, so, hopefully, Rovers will benefit from this giant of a man within his twilight year .....Fingers crossed!

I personally believe that Rovers should be thrown out of Superleague over this heinous behavior.

In addition, I believe that the Magic game should be changed to 4pm Sunday.