Does it? Isn't he just replacing Tuson/Carvell? Haven't we just given Abdull a run and extended Hadley's contract? What intentions do you think the club have for the Tyson Wilsons, Turgut, Lancaster etc? He may be bang average, but Storm and Roosters tabled offers, so he's not completely useless it seems.

Problem is, you make a couple of valid points, especially the one about Hadley. But it's all wrapped in this anti-Radford rhetoric which does it no favours.

Personally I think an extra bit of experience won't hurt, we have a lot of younger kids coming through and the squad needs balance.

Where does all this leave Rich Whiting?

Most prob at feth!

I think he'll be moving on. Based on no insight, but we've got back rowers coming through the academy who Radford will want to give opportunities to.

Said on Twitter he'll definitely be here next year.

Thompson also ?. As for Minichiello I can see some peoples frustrations the signing isn't top draw but he will bring added experience and aggression to the team .

The difficulty signing Australian players at the moment is they have such disregard for SL it's untrue. Only last week I watched Soward laughing saying his spell at London was great cause he could get fat and drink beer. Bowen was doing the same just before the WCC.

I'd have Minichiello over Pritchard every day of the week though.

Keith Mason said on there he'll be playing next season. However i think he'll have other things on his plate

Why's that?

Whiting will be what he always is, a utility player, every season, we get will Whiting get a game and every season he plays over 20 games ( although he may fall slightly short this year).

After Thompson's impressive start this year he has been very poor the 2nd half of the season and needs to have a good finish and pre season.

No way Bowen could drink beer and get fat playing at Wigan, he might of thought he could, but it wont of happened. In fact, i think your talking e

Soward didn't do a bad job of getting fat at ST George either .

He also said this about his time at London
“[iIt was just such a fantastic three months. Tony told me to play footy. He told me to chip and chase, kick, step, go to the other side of the field, do whatever I wanted. I loved footy again. And I realised what it was I loved about footy.[/i

Firstly I'm not a fan of "impact" players. To many errors in their game. Pritchards also a bit lazy in pre season and keeping himself in nick, the injuries are catching up with him.

There's a interview of Bowen before the WCC of him laughing with Fittler about his weight gain in pre season.

I'd add getting rid of the shoulder charge has taken a big part of his game away as it has with a few big players this season .

What's that got to do with how serious he took it? Shall I ignore his interview last week?

You brought it up .

It hasn't effected the top players, I actually think it's effected the smaller players more. Players like Josh Reynolds and Chris Sandow have had to improve their technique.

I agree with how its affected the smaller players more , But I think some of the impact of the big hitters like Masoe , Williams , Pritchard has really lessened imo. Stupid decision to get rid .

Quote ="Greavsie"Radford as intimated that Ellis will move to prop for next year, a move a lot of back rowers make to help prolong their careers.'" Minichiello is a left sided player so something will have to be worked on. Below is his personal profile from the official Titans site. Pity they could not get his birth date right. www.titans.com.au/team/profiles/ ... iello.html

Quote ="Greavsie"Radford as intimated that Ellis will move to prop for next year, a move a lot of back rowers make to help prolong their careers.'" Minichiello is a left sided player so something will have to be worked on. Below is his personal profile from the official Titans site. Pity they could not get his birth date right. www.titans.com.au/team/profiles/ ... iello.html

Titans v Sea Eagles, tomorrow on Premier Sports. 6am.
Make your own conclusions, then.
(channel 428 on Sky)

I'm optimistic he will have a similar impact on our team as Shane Mcmenemy had a decade ago.
More recently our last second row Aussie signing in Galea worked out pretty much as many predicted but I've got high hopes for Minichiello. Despite us being crap our average squad age much have decreased these past few years so I'm all for abit more experience.

Played well this morning

Watched him this morning & he was very good in attack & defence, & he played on the right.