Quote LincolnDEVILSFan="LincolnDEVILSFan"Considering the good doctor has a management consultancy, I'm sure he & Noble are more than capable of assessing the level of risk Duggan poses. There are very few players of his quality available, and if he wants to get back on the straight and narrow we may have to take that risk. If Morley wants to come for salary that reflects the amount of minutes he's capable of playing, the pride of playing for the team he supported as boy could work in our favour and bring in some extra local support.
I still believe we need to beat Warrington to the punch and get Darryl Clark. Other than that Frank Pritchard is out of contract, who would be immense in SL, and Graham might be a possibility, considering the bad press he got towards he end of last season.'"
1. One benefit of having a Coach of Nobles Past experience & knowledge of the game is he will be able to control the urge to splash out on ' ill judged ' signings , and one pleasing comment - small steps or big steps , but the right steps , the other good response to the questions raised at the press do was - he would only bring players in this season if they were the right players .
2. Re so called Marquee signings , Any Current NRL stars are basically a non starter , for the financial reasons explained in the conference , Jamie Soward , mentioned by Ed Farish earlier in the season as a ' player we were talking to' has just signed a 4 year deal with Penrith [url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/dragons-star-jamie-soward-to-join-penrith-panthers-in-2014/story-e6frexqi-1226622772010Dragons star Jamie Soward to join Penrith Panthers in 2014[/url.
The only player from NRL would be those with talent who have erred so much no other NRL club will touch them , or those who want to escape the intense scrutiny of NRL attention - aka Joel Monaghan at Warrington - Jamie lyons at St Helens went he went AWOL . their risk factor would be assessed against their impact if they get their act together.
So we still may have to risk 150-250K + for a bonefide but troubled ' Star ' and he may turn out to be a doughnut .