Whats the situation with his contract?

I just had a call telling me he'd agreed terms with Huddersfield for next season?

If he wants to move on then fair play to him but we need a decision soon. We don't want another Carvell situation.

Would rather he stayed but if he wants to go then so be it. He is not irreplaceable and we have a lot of backrow options.

I came to exactly the same conclusion. If he is going lets hope he makes his mind up soon to give us time to replace him.

If he goes, then we've got Lauaki, Burnett, Manu, Fitzgibbon and Whiting as back row options, with Washbrook too if he stays. That'll do for me.

If Fitz and Tickle go then maybe we would need another backrow with a bit of experience though.

We also have Kent, Cunningham and Crookes coming through in the backrow.

Would not give tickle too much longer as we will need to look at options and as someone has said above we dont want a Carvell situation.