I expect us to offer Leon 1 year, and him to go to bradford on a 3 yr deal

awful siging on a 4 year deal...2 years should have been the max...looks like simmonds is losing the plot..

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Does he have a kicking game?

He's only 28 and he still represents New Zealand. That was an awfully daft comment to make.

He does, although I've never know him to be the prominant long kicking game. He's a goal kicker too.

Like giving Sean Long a 2yr contract

Wasn't he playing NSW cup or whatever at that point and and NRL career followed?

id have expected him to do the same kind of thing that Sam Tomkins does at Wigan.

Named at FB but then moving into the halves when on the attack. I thought Wello would move to 13 to accommodate his age and then L-Ho would fill in at FB. I think Gaskell and Lomax do need playing time together but they are getting plenty of it now and producing some great performances from what i hear. It'd be silly of Royce IMO to break it up.

L-Ho would give J-Lo some great experience but id prefer Gaskell to play alongside him as its the long term plan.

Check out the video of his hit on Cinovaceva.

It gives us that element of experience in the backs that we are missing.

However another question here is overseas quota. Now I'm not sure who is a KOLPAC player but.

Lance, Perry, Flannery, Puletua, Meli.


5 into 4 don't go, Lance, Perry and Meli are all signed up for next year.

So either we get Meli to do the old passport switch or Flannery/Puletua are going end of season.

Any ideas?

The obvious selection would be Flannery to leave but it maybe that Puletua decides to go.

Meli, Puletua and Soliola are Kolpak. Perry and Flannery are quota. We have plenty of spots left to play with.

Cheers for the info Backrow.

I guess that solves that problem then

Indeed it does, anyway, even if we were upto the quota limit, we could just do a HKR and ignore it

I'd be very surprised if flannery got another extension,we've got enough non quota options in the backrow

Agreed, as an overseas player he must be on a decent wage too. We could recruit somebody from within who wouldn't be that much worse than Flannery but on a much less wage. Magennis in particular looks to be improving with game time after a shaky start. Hopefully he's got over his injury and will prove to be an asset.

exactly..awful descion.....royce and agar....sure there swapping notes

I'd have no problem with that, but I must admit I am far from a Flannery fan. I thought the previous years he has played have been wasted, great tackler, but you can get that from Dixon and the like, for alot less.

However this year he seams a new player.

Whether that's an effect of him not playing loose/centre.
Whether it's an injury free run
Whether it's playing for a contract ie 1 year rolling.

What ever the reason he seams much improved this year, so I would be tempted to offer a contract depending on other signings and how the likes of dixon and megennis etc progress.

Can you please give your reasoning on why signing a current NZ international, world cup and four nations winner is an awful decision? Because at the minute without giving any reasons, you're making yourself look incredibly stupid. If you can come up with soem blockbuster reason as to why it's awful then i'll be inclined to agree, but I struggle to see what you are possibly talking about.

Exactly its not like he's 34 like a certain warrington fullback is it?

To be fair I don't think BBM is questioning the guys ability, just the length of contract. He will be 29 a few games in next year, I would have preferred it to be a 3 year deal, but it probably took the 4th year to get him.

I really dont think 32/33 is too old

Me neither, lets face it, Wellens is 31 and at the minute is in the best form I've seen him in for some time.

Probably not, I personally would have no issue with a forward at that age, but a back I do. Not convinced that Hohaia is going to end up playing half back consistently like has been mooted, I think he will end up at FB with Wello in the pack.

We will end up paying HB salary for a FB and I would have liked it that we been on the hook for that for a shorter period.

I completely agree. I see him replacing pryce next year and teaming up with J-Lo, then the year after as wello probably retires (or moves into the backrow for a year), moving to fullback