manu is only 31 so is hardly ageing but suffered from injuries last year. Minichello was probably our best back rower last year and is in great shape but needs to play less minutes to get the best out of him. Hadley is decent back up

I don't expect us to trouble the top 5 next year but still expect us to finish above rovers

masoe has been pretty anonymous whenever I've watched him play for rovers

Being your best back rower is not necessarily a big compliment as he is being compared with average SL players. Looking at our back row I cannot see anyone that I would swap for Minichello at this stage of his career. I would take Tomkins and Greenwood at this point in time but then we are all entitled to our own opinion.

You obviously saw little of Masoe.

We all have our expectations that is what this time of year is all about.

Happy with Garbutt, if we can keep him fit he's a great signing and makes a very good starting front row with Mulhern.
Masoe i want to see more from him, for every big drive theres a quiet spell IMO. on his day though he can be really hard to handle
Im happy with the pack as it is but think we need a young hooker from somewhere as lunt seems to be stuck in an injury cycle unfortunatly.

I think your pack is looking very strong. I would even suggest Mulhern doing some big minutes at 13 with the try threat from Tomkins and Greenwood in the back row, backed up by your backline looking forward to how you will go this year

So in league weekly we have signed Morgan smith from Warrington, looking to maybe sign nil player Blake Ayesford and still in hunt for Josh Drinkwater both Kr and Leeds are after him, but also apparently a marquee signing is being announced Tuesday according to some on Facebook

I think what with Lunts injuries that Morgan Smith is a good signingand certainly one for the long term.
As for Blake Asyhford ive only ever seen him play centre which were pretty well covered IMO. and he's bang average too. Some reporters seem to add positions to certain players for some reason as if they are agents haha

Id be happy with Drinkwater and Smith to finish our squad.

If you can believe HDM there is no interest in Morgan Smith but there might be legs in the Ayesford and Drinkwater rumours.

The same HDM who told us we had no interest in garbutt, I genuinely don't believe them

They must get there info from someone at Rovers surely haha

Sammut is not staying at London. Would he be worth a punt?

Not for me. Has he left before fixing something else up?

Looks like he has something fixed up. He’s on twitter asking for a Wigan dictionary?!

Sneeeyyd?

I think the halfback signing could have a big effect on Will Dagger, sign a back up hb and he gets a good run at fullback but if we sign a starting hb like Drinkwater then he's more than likely dropped for Atkin. I know he's still young but id like to see him get a run of games under his belt.

Jarrod Sammut has a job with the police force up in Workington ive just read so looks like a part time clubs got him.