if BMM can turn himself into a 50-60 minute a game back rower, he will probably be the elite SL player in that position.

BMM has dropped a load of weight and is playing the minutes i hoped he would. If he carries on then he should get back to his Salford best


Burrell had a few solid runs last on Thursday which suggests he'd be better in the forward pack. He doesn't seem great at centre but i'm not going to judge him really on 2 and a quarter games just yet. He's now played 2 full games for us so knows what ge needs to do, and with a full pre-season behind him he will be much better. My only issue is he can't seem to tackle, but i'm not sure if that's just down to him not getting himself in the right position to tackle effectively? He's certainly got the strength to tackle so that's not an issue, but i thought he played alot better than his first full game and we have him for another 2 years so i'm quitely confident with him.
And i think Patton can improve next year aswell having Widdop here, he has some really good moments but i think it's just his consistency he needs to improve.
Strike centre and a solid good minutes prop for next year and we're looking good.
I have to say Tasi has annoyed me, he's been for pretty much this whole season, but now he has no club the past 2 games he's put in some hard solid big hitting performances. If he'd done this from day one we'd have been fine Prop wise and he wouldn't be struggling to get a job for next year.

I wouldn't say Luther can't tackle...more technique rusty and positional sense.

Positional sense and needs to be careful with his feet around the ruck too, especially the speed of RL compared to RU it will take time...

He’s got a lot of work to do in the pre-season if he wants a starting position in this team next year.

Luther is a rugby player, with exceptional power.... We will take 6-12 months to see him properly
No union player ever came in straight away and delivered

Davies took more than 12 months before he peaked.

the list is huge..... not one of them looked good in the first 6 months

Yeah exactly, that's why i'm not judging him yet. Good pre-season should point him in the right direction and a few more games under the belt will do him the world of good. I'm confident he will turn out to be a good player for us

i think he will end up a brilliant second row.

You can see he has strength and running power.... we just need to learn how to use him.

great move really, as its a gamble that has no salary cap effect.... for now.

. I suppose that depends on position ...Martin Offiah burst straight onto the scene.

He'll have to up his fitness 100%, he was blowing again early last week, and play wasnt down his wing much at thar point either.

Yes. My guess is he's pumping iron but not so much running.

it's interesting how awkward he looks when playing the ball, just shows you have to work at the smallest things!

I’m glad Burrell has played at all this year if I am honest, I fully expected him to be kept on the sidelines till 2020. So anything is a bonus at this stage.

Time will tell whether he makes it or not, it’s not a risk in salary cap terms obviously, he has all the physical attributes to make it in RL, has played it in the past and was an RU international.

The guy needs time, that’s all.

That is my concern. He will be 32 as we roll into next season. You could argue he hasn't really got much time.

There’s an argument to start him close to the middle and work out. He’s a big unit, in the middle there’s a bit more margin for error in defence, less ‘reading’ of the game. Out in the centre you have a lot of decisions to make, which takes time to create that instinct of when to shoot in, when to stay out.

Throw him in the middle and get him used to getting up and down, plenty of work from marker and carrying the ball. If nothing else, it’s a rest for a prop, and better to invest time in him than Tasi who is on the way out of the door.

Most of the fitness stuff will be ironed out in pre season. We’re hardly playing a brand of RL that flatters our centres at the minute, so he’s not going to look like a world beater.

We have to be mindful ,if there is a mass clearout ,who will be available to bring in to improve the quality on the pitch.
Unless Price has something else up his sleeve ,our league season so far has not been impressive despite pretending we are still the second best team in the league. Let's hope we can at least get to OT.

Is the re-signing of Dwyer a RD exclusive? haha

I wasn't talking about Dwyer returning. Although it looks like it without the post of response.

If King & Gelling are our starting centres next year, with K.Brand providing back up, we might not see Burrell in centres as often as we think.

Still has a lot of hard work to do to prove himself Burrell. I can’t see him displacing Currie, Hughes or BBM at second row, will be interesting to see what position he ends up at.

Luther is almost certainly not a centre. I think I'd use the closed season to get him to play an impact prop role akin to Philbin.

We may also see Matty Ashton coming in and playing at centre when Lineham is fit or not banned.