As we all know, Calderwood's had several injury set backs this season...but do we gamble on giving him a 1 year deal on reduced pay?

If he can prove his fitness in November then I would say yes, as we won't find another winger of his quality available at short notice. And he is one of our few players who can do something unexpected and not just the boring drives up the middle.

all depends on his fitness, and if we can secure him on a lower paid deal I suppose.

In an ideal world we'd sign another top class winger, a half, a prop and cover at fullback...but there simply isn't the cap space.

personally id like the club to bring in a top quality overseas centre but this aint gonna happen so an option could be to give calders another year on reduced pay and maybe put briscoe in centres not sure on that 1 but it gives us the option which we aint had in the past.

I like/rate Calders but TBH do we need him now ? We have already Lynne, Sharpe, Briscoe, Whiting etc. I think that we should look to spend his salary elsewhere.

Need to start getting the ball out wide more often before we worry about this, our priority needs to be at halfback yet again.

Calders has been unfortunate with injury and although when he has played he as always given 100% i think we have had enough problems with injuries over the past few years to even contemplate taking a risk on someone who has become injury prone.

Priority has to be a centre. Then again, I've been saying that since Barnett senior left!

so we need a centre more than half cover

We already have a top quality overseas centre

how anyone thinks we need a centre is beyond me, we need 6/7 cover (in an ideal world we'd get a new 6/7 of some repute!)

Can't afford to have salary cap tied up in someone who has repeated hamstring problems. I like Calderwood but with Briscoe, Sharp and Lyne we have bigger priorities. I hope we use our cap and quota space for a FB / HB

I think Lyne is at least another year from being first choice. Rovers targeted him and other teams will do the same. He is too light for now but will be a good player i'm sure.

we do need a top quality centre berro is solid but nothing more, players such as greame horne, whiting, turner who have played in this posistion over the past few years are nothng more then average we need a quaity strike player that offers us some good attacking ability. but i do agree we need halfback cover and a quality prop so its about getting the balance right in the squad.

please, nurse, my sides have split!

yeah, so "solid and nothing more" that he played in the position for Australia.

some people, f'ing hilarious.

Am I mising something on here.Why do people still have Whiting down as a winger/centre.As much as I like the bloke go back to the semi final in 2005.He made a break then and was to slow to score so he gave a silly pass out which fortunatley for us came off.If he was not fast enough in 2005 why do people think he is fast enough now.Let's play wingers on the wing and centre's in the centre.As for rich IMO standin 6 or 13.

Calderwood has been offered a one year deal from the club, offered to him about a month ago.

The deal is on a reduced 'base' salary, with a bonus depending on how many game he plays. Should he play all the games, he'll bank a similar amount next year to what he earns now.

I imagine he's weighing up his options, Catalans were the only club to show any interest.

Should Calders recover properly from his injury and remain fit for the season then I see him scoring a bagful of tries next season playing outside of Berro. I predict a Gidley and Gardner type relationship.

I agree, but for his own development he'll need some game time next year. So I think he should be our "3rd winger" behind Sharp and Briscoe.

-i saw more in 2 games at centre from berro to suggest this will be his position next year!!halfback positions are the ones to concentrate on.

Just like we have for the last few years. Yet people still keep saying that centre/winger/fb are more important and i just cannot see it. We have 3 players who can play at full back to varying degrees of ability (Horne/Tansey/Whiting) We also have a myriad of players who can play centre, on the Wing yes we need someone but it is pointless having a winger who can score tries if we have nobody in the middle who can engineer it.

We don't need a centre as we have 4, Berro, Whiting, Yeaman, Turner. We also have three wingers Briscoe, Sharp and Lyne.

The deal for Calderwood I don't know, it would have top be cheap but halfback is the priority then prop and I would also like a young hooker.

You're just asking for trouble with that!!

I'd have absolutely no problems with that whatsoever provided the money spent doesn't restrict our search for a halfback.

The worrying thing from Calderwoods point of view is, what if we have needed to bring loanee players in again at some stage during the season, it may get to the stage where we can't afford to play him due to cap restraints.

If Berro is staying as some have said we need another Hooker then as Houghton cant play 80 every week it will kill the poor lad.

Always goes back to the cheerleader thread

I dont think we need a winger or a centre and i'd let Calders leave.

We desperately need a prop, a halfback and a hooker. (for Berro to play centre)