London bronco's have signed brock lamb 22yr old half back from south sydney,with immediate effect.

Is he one of the lads roopy mentioned a few years ago, who Newcastle had picked out at an early age for intensive development? Vaguely rings a bell.

Announced Hadley & Litten, signed with immediate effect.

And they are having talks with another x hull fc player he is playing for Toronto at the moment

Nick Rawsthorne? Possibly Matty Russell? Although we only had him on loan.

Nice to see big brother looking after little brother.

Wins against London, Leeds and now lending you players?

Seriously though, two decent signing, I think we may regret the Litten one.

Ive heard weve been Trout fishing

I remember reading an article years ago when he was coming through the ranks at Wakefield and him being one of their top prospects back then. One of those names that lodges itself in your brain, I guess.

Played 25 games for Wakefield in amongst an array of loans and dual reg spells. He’s had spells with Sheffield and Dewsbury since then. Second chance for him to give it a go in a full-time environment, and for us to look at him maybe. Another option in the middle wouldn’t do any harm.

I think if we really want to be playing higher up the league Kyke Trout's not the type of player we need, he'd only be a squad filler at best when we really need to be strengthening the starting 13.

True but we are going to have A teams are we not so we need back up players

Yeah but if it's him or Addy in the 17....

Addy becoming the new Drinkwater? Not his fault he's been mostly played at hooker since returning from serious injury. He is in danger of becoming a Washbrook/G Horne type and his ability to cover pretty much any position can hinder a player sometimes. Think better will be seen with him if we ever get a settled side and he gets a run in the back row. Is he contracted next season? If I was going to single any players out for negatives from yesterday it would be Keinhorst and his Tig style tackling and up until his heroics McGuire was having a bit of a stinker. Who cares? We won in thrilling fashion.

Most of the points were conceded whilst Addy was on the pitch.

His missed tackles lead directly to 2 tries (defense was the one thing I thought he was good at). His inept passing lead to a third. He is the slowest to get back in the line when defending and made virtually no metres with ball in hand.

Drinkwater has improved as the season has progressed, especially under a proper coach. Addy had one good game this season in the opening game.

Yes, Addy is no hooker or HB but his loose pass shows he thinks he is. He's also struggling to be an effective forward.

We won but lets not shy away from what we still need to improve.

You may not like it but the cheer from the East Stand when he was taken off was very telling - and shows I'm not alone in seeing all this. Sad but true.

Tomkins is no Captain either.

Addy never settled in a regular position when he was with us yet played everywhere bar wing or fullback. He’s made a career of being able to do a job filling in and not done bad at it. He’s never going to excel in any position but can occasionally do something good. He’s also capable of being infuriatingly bad at times. IMO he’s not SL quality.

Agreed. In the championship he'd do a fair bit better.