You ting me? Crabtree can gain 20 and still off load.

Gains an average of 8.6 metres per carry and has made 36 offloads from 216 hit ups. Whilst i agree he'd be a decent signing i think his overall effectiveness is being a tad over stated.

Whilst I go on the fact he mashes us every game and dont give a crap about stats as they change for every team played against his overal effectiveness I would suggest is sign him up.

Calld up for England is I admit a declaration of his poor play.

Where have i said he is poor???

The point i was making is that if you are expecting 10 and 20 metre hit ups consistantly from the guy you're in for shock.

4 a game would be good. We have other forwards as well. The point is we dont have one of those at the moment.

I can't see Chev, Fitz, Mills, Stanley or Makali being here next season.

Due to the quota rulings, don't we have to lose one of our overseas contingent anyways? If that is the case we would need to lose two off our team to bring one in.

I'd like to see us bring in another centre to act as cover, I don't see anything wrong with Webster and Welham as our starting centres. An impact prop would compliment Vella, Fozzard and Wheeldon well also. Crabtree would be an excellent signing imo, just depends on his availability and willingness to move clubs.

I actually don't think we would need to bring too many more players into our side to be a threat to the top 2. So hopefully our recruitment will have a "quality not quantity" aspect to it.

The 'revolving door' recruitment has finished now , as stated in the recent YP article we should be looking at a couple of quality additions for next season.

As for Crabtree would be a good signing but as he is contracted for 2010 at Huddersfield , I doubt he will be at Rovers next season.

The rest of the squad would miss him trust me.
They love having him out on the field doing a share of their defensive work as well as his own.

The game is a squad game now more than ever and Nev is a good squad player.
He should be retained IMO.

Love that guy,built like the proverbial brick s**thouse.

Full back.
Shaun Briscoe
Ben Cockayne
Wings
Peter Fox
Liam Colbon
Centre
Jake Webster
Kris Welham
[iA new centre. Loan Kris out to a NL1 side get more experiance[/i
Halves
[iPaul Cooke[/i
Michael Dobson

Props
Michael Vella
Liam Watts
Scott Wheldon
[iStarting Prop[/i
[iimpact prop[/i
Hookers
[iTop class hooker[/i
Ben Fisher
Scott Spavern
2nd row
Ben Galea
Clint Newton
Loose
Scott Murrell

[iGood Utillaty Forward[/i

OUT

Rhys Lovegrove
Daniel Fitzhenry
Nick Fozzard
Chaz I'Anson
Makali Aizue
Jason Netherton
David Mills
Ryan Esders
Stanley Gene
Chev Walker

Got to agree with Alex Mc re opinion on Welham, had a cracking season for an ex Hull academy late developer, (he is definately not "young" nor a "prospect", see the likes of Wheeler, Eastmond, Tompkins, Myler, Watkins , T Briscoe for such a description, even Craig Hall is younger....)but he defo aint up to it against the class players, as to the last "bad" game he had, he had an absolute shocker against Wigan and he has a nightmare few minutes minimum in every single game, no coincidence his side is getting targetted every match...good squad player , but will never win you trophies...

And to be even more against the grain, i would wager anybody that Rovers will never win anything whilst Dobson is the scrum half and "general", massively overated and no coincidence he was a reserve in Aus, if the rumours are true i would snap Wigans hand off....a very good individual in the middle reaches of SL but again will never win anything...and not a top class scrum half by any stretch.

I think JM has made a large rod for his own back with these and others and was far too quick to hand out lengthy contracts to various players, tying Rovers into nearly the same (not quite good enough) squad for a few years...with the failure to get to Wembley knocking a massive hole in the income expectations i think this may well be Rovers peak season for a while....expect a " i have taken Rovers as far as i can" statement anytime soon...

Absolute tosh!!!