Its certainly not off the table. After their initial excitement I think both Souths and Brisbane realise what a mess they've made, and how hard it would be for both coaches next year. The problem is that switching coaches so late in the day won't help for next season either, as they'll have very little scope to make any changes to their respective squads.

Speaking of furner. Wasn't he supposed to arrive today?

Yep arrives today meets the press tomorrow.

expect signings to be announced later in week if not some tomorrow.

Has the early bird offer gone now to purchase season tickets?

Finished Saturday for seat season ticket holders

I wonder what time the presser is ?

Radio silence from HQ. They really know how to make a big splash with the fans don’t they...

Well he's here. Barrie has tweeted a picture of him

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Give em chance, he only arrived early this morning. On his way to HQ as we speak. Presser later on today

If they’d have been on the ball they would have been promoting this on social media for the last week or so. Have it at lunchtime and broadcast on Facebook etc and you could easily have had a couple of thousand people watching.

Just over 150 watching live at the minute

Exactly, could have been many more. Where is the feed? The fact I need to ask highlights the point...

Nothing of great interest in the presser, JJB will be playing next year and Merrin deal is still in negotiation stages - and that's about it really

Oh,I don't know. He did mention that we're looking at 2 more World Class players. I'm presuming Merrin will be one of those. Anyone's guess who the second might be. The plot thickens....

I think one is already here..Hurrell. Merrin would make two. Quote from Yep doesn't say two more.. it says he's wanting two world class players

Suspect he meant Merrin [ior[/i another world classer, not Merrin [iand[/i another world classer. Exciting as all the rumours and signings have been, we could yet find ourselves deep in the clarts once the roster is finalised.

Where can I find the interview from today?

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Cheers

Merrin staying with Penrith

Back to the drawing board

Hopefully we don't rush in to sign anyone who's off contract to replace Merrin. That's how teams end up with imbalanced (and rubbish) squads. I'd rather leave that spot open to 2020 if we can't sign real quality. We really don't want another Galloway/Peteru IMO.

Two things re Merrin - firstly we probably dodged a bullet as he clearly didn't want to leave, and secondly, it should be an eye-opener for Furner about how difficult it will be to attract anybody close to 'world class' from the NRL>

Agreed, I think there's no where near as much jeopardy next season with regards to relegation, personally rather than rushing a signing I would rather let the new coaching set up assess what is needed long term, this squad may surprise a few people when playing with new structures and systems, which is basically what Furner said in the press conference.