Maggot watch! He,s back had a win GF here they come

I know a great signing for next season
Nearly made Aussie man of Steel and getting rave reviews and still young
Josh Hodgson

Why, to replace Houghton? He's not going to make enough impact to justify the salary IMHO (because he'd be the highest paid player at the club to draw him back).
I wasn't all that impressed with him at the WC either.

If bumpy doesn't rate him, SIGN HIM UP!

Totally agree, why we would spend a large amount of cap when we have one of the best hookers in the league?

Plus why we would he leave the NRL, got be realistic with targets and target a position we need.

Josh hodgson signed with canberra till 2022.

Maybe Hodgson wouldn't be the best value for money but we definitely need to start looking at another hooker to work with DH. Its unrealistic to think DH can continue playing 80 mins as he hits his 30's and hes starting to pick up injuries which previously he never did. If Litten is the answer then great but I cant see Washbrook being here next season so if Litten still isn't ready then we need an alternative.

Matty Russell rumour doing the rounds!!!

I agree, think Litten could be the answer and should be ready for a few more games next year, hopefully he will get a good run of games at Donny and will benefit like Abdul did.

If we don't think he will be ready I'd look to bring James Cunningham back to the club.

I hope not, although he is a Radford type winger, too many errors in his game, I'd rather have Lineham back.

Interesting one. Wire obviously signed another back today & seemed to have plenty of options anyway and we're probably an outside back short in the squad.


It's quite difficult to say where & when we should use Watts's cap space. We're well-stocked at prop & centre. Right now we need a hooker, but how much game time would a new hooker be likely to get when Houghton returns? At half we have Sneyd & Kelly with Connor likely moving to 6 next year. Wings we're ok, maybe need a backup as mentioned. Fullback, I've spoken about Shaul, he's brilliant at certain things, but useless if we try and use him as a pivot in attack, Miloudi backup. I'd probably say 2nd row, after Mini & Manu we're straight onto our youngsters (although I'm really impressed with Lane), assuming Hadley & Abdul spell each other at 13.

We need an impact player - a Willie Manu, Sam Moa (when he first came), someone who can lift the team and the intensity. At the moment, we replace like for like and have no variety

Absolutely agree with you but I'm assuming we have no quota places left so will have to wait until next year.

That's right, we have all 7 Non-Fed spots used at the mo.

Kelly, Talanoa, Manu & Mini all OOC at the end of this year.

Paea & Faraimo OOC 2019.

Tuimavave OOC 2020

Talanoa and Mini to leave for me at the end of this year (probably Kelly too), so could be some new blood next year

I agree with you.Its great to see young players coming through but at this stage you cant expect them to deliver every game they play especially if given a run of games like Masi,Fash and Jordan Lane have recently.
In the meantime i would use Griffin off the bench to provide a bit of impact into the forwards.
I still dont rate him as a centre but have seen enough of him to see when he is fresh he would have the power to bust some tackles.

Kelly is odds on to leave anyway as he and his family want to go back to Australia
Minichello looks to me as though he is playing his last season.You cant go on forever
Talanoa possibly.Wouldnt surprise me to see jack Logan take his place on Friday

I just hope we can persuade Manu to stay, as replacing him and Mini would be really hard.

Talanoa is the hard one, so effective on his day, but has issues with defence and no pace.

I would like to see Griffin replace him, as I feel it is his best position to use his skills.

Sign an overseas

Josh Jones or Taai (Or similar type) to replace Mini

Connor/Abdul to replace Kelly.

Agree with most of the above though for some reason whilst Connor linked up well with Kelly it doesn't seem to work too well when its Connor/Sneyd together for some reason.

I agree with that, the Connor/Kelly combination was great but Connor/Sneyd seems really stilted.

To be honest Dave i dont think we can replace Kelly with what he currently brings to the team.Our attack is lost without a piece of Kelly magic.
Sneyd/Connor just doesnt work and i have not seen enough of Abdull to say he could be our 6 next season.
We need to keep Manu as I think its Minis last season.
I agree on Talanaoa.he is becoming a liability in defence so its a difficult one for club.
I see what you mean about Griffin but for me he just doesnt cut it as a centre or wing.What you are suggesting is a replacement for Talanoa but he is the same with poor defence and is no faster than Talanoa.You can count on one hand the number of decent games he has had since been at the club and his try scoring record is dreadful.Very poor signing but i would still use him off the bench as an impact player until we get some injured players back.

agree with most of that Bonaire, but imo griffin has been one of our best backs this year , topping metres gained, always makes hard yards,

Agree re Griffin, think because he does not rip up trees in a way a lot of what he does goes unnoticed plus we still don't use him to his strength by getting the ball to him early enough.

Thats why i keep saying play him off the bench as an impact second row because the other aspects of his game are poor.
He will never be a quality centre.His reading of the game,defence,and assist passing to his wing all very poor.Has no footwork to beat a man but like you say makes hard yards at times with his power.
His try ratio for game time sums it up.
Must be a wingers nightmare having Griffin as a centre partner.
Living off the MPG at HKR for me.

matty russell? jesus, are we that desperate for a squad filler? He's hopeless. I would be less than impressed if we replaced one of the top 5 props in the comp with warrington's 5th choice winger