When it was announced earlier this year he'd be leaving I was pretty gutted as last year he was great, and had a top year in 2011 under Terry Matterson.

However, this year he's been pretty poor and hasn't been in the side as much - whether this is due simply to poor form or because his mind is elsewhere is uncertain, but he has potential. Not the biggest second row, but when he ran with pace around the ruck in 2011 he was occasionally pretty devastating off the bench - scoring with his first touch of the game a few times I remember - and played above his weight.

I must admit I'm glad to see we've got Frankie Mariano in his place - I feel at Cas we have quite a physically small team, with players like Thompson in the pack we sometimes struggle against bigger, stronger forwards.

If you can get him back in that form, he'll do a good job, otherwise on the 2013 form even under Powell I imagine he'll be a squad player at best.

Anyone concerned we've recruited 5 players from the bottom two clubs?

We are botton 3 and we have only got 2 points from Salford and a point from London so not much better IMO.

Do we have any more overseas spots available?

One more Ex Hull player signed, in Scott Wheeldon.

As a youngster he looked outstanding and in his first season he looked like he would be a stand out SL prop, after that he never kicked on and went backwards, hopefully Powell ( who I think is a great coach) is the man to help Scott get his form back.

Solid,and reliable prop,decent signing.