Navarette to Wigan now confirmed also.

Lots of announcements in the next 48 hours apparently

Really? I will stay tuned.

Moa joins.

Not seen much of the NRL lately, remember him being very solid a few years ago though.

Didn't have an amazing year but still solid. Was one of the best props in the game 2-3 years ago. Should be one of the best in super league. Great signing imo.

Yeah, happy with that. Stellar in 2015, not so much in 2016, but still more than good enough

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I met some Catalan fans ,who seemed to know what's been going on,at the grand final.It would appear that the rumors about Carney,Taylor and Escare are true.The club will not be employing any more Australians in the near future and want to have 18 Frenchmen in the squad of 25 by 2020.My sources claim the contracts of the terrible trio will have to be paid up in full.I commented that in that case we might as well keep them and that if there were 18 Frenchmen in the squad-given that only Bousquet has come through during the last 5 years-we would be relegated.They seemed to think that the club's prospects are fine.
They agreed that Pelissier was too much an individual player,but would not express a view as to how and why Garcia was always picked at centre.They like our English players and want more of them.The match itself was played at an intensity wit which we would not have been able to cope.

Garcia was picked at centre because of a lack of anyone else to play there with Gigot having to play full back. It is clear they will not play Garcia at centre when we have fit centres.

Of course they will employ aussies and kiwis, they are talking rubbish. We have literally just signed Sam Moa.

You also can't put Escare in the same boat as Taylor and Carney, I am almost certain he does not have the same off the field issues that Carney and Taylor have.

I think Morgan has suffered from not being able to back up that first season.

Also once people got into him for being a bad defender he stopped being as good going forward.

And when he played we werent using him properly. He was devastating at pushing with offloads and also being the last link runner round the back

I feel that it is unfair to tell you the identity of my sources,but I am very confident of their veracity, and I shall say that they were not just "ordinary fans." They lump Escare with Carney and Taylor.They say "no more Australians" .New Zealanders,Islanders and Brits are not Australians. My opinion is that Escare's defence was bad in 2014,2015 and 2016. Most of his successful attacks came on the left flank,often feeding off Taia, and our opposition got wise.My sources ,however, are of the view that Escare was physically unfit this year As I said before Escare was our best player in his last match for the club and by the end of the season I wanted Gigot at centre and Escare at full back ,because Garcia was playing so badly.The thing I find hard to accept is that the club is going to pay 2 years salary to get three players,one of whom has been outstanding this year,off the books.I also think that 18 Frenchmen good enough for superleague do not exist and will not exist in 2020.Indeed Casty Bosc Duport and probably Baitieri will be gone by then.

Who asked for your sources Catalanglais?

Why would Todd Carney be leaving? St George-Illawarra cannot sign him because the NRL won't allow it. He would seem to have no other option than Catalans.