Seems to be a no from most clubs, scary to think the money that they are wasting on subsidising players salaries playing for other clubs. Wonder if Salford will take him? Last I heard, even paying 60% of his wages he would still be on a top wage - Thewlis seems to get it wrong time after time.

Let's see if I can get it right this time:



Tom Johnstone

Bill Tupou

Reece Lyne

Ben Jones-Bishop

Jacob Miller

Danny Brough

David Fifita

Kyle Wood

Matty Ashurst

Craig Kopczak

Tinirau Arona

Joe Arundal

James Batchelor

Max Jowitt

George King

Jordan Crowther

Kelepi Tanginoa

Ryan Hampshire

Joe Westerman

Alex Walker

Chris Green

Ryan Atkins

Lee Kershaw

Titus Gwaze

Jack Croft

Yusuf Aydin

Connor Bailey

Oliver Greensmith

Josh Wood

Danny Kirmond

Jay Pitts

Good Squad, isn't it. I know there's many other options I've missed but off top of my head there's loads of options in all positions. Shows how far we've come to have so many high quality players in all positions!



Full Back - BJB, Max, Rocky, Walker



Wing - Bill, BJB, Kershaw, Reece, Rocky, Tom



Centre - Arundel, Atkins, Bill, Croft, Greensmith, Reece, Tanginoa



Halves - Bailey, Brough, Miller, Rocky, Wood



Prop - Arona, Dave, Green, Gwaze, King, Koppy, Tanginoa



Hooker - Crowther, Woody, Woods



SR - Arundel, Ashurst, Atkins, Batch, Crowther, Kirmo, Pitts, Tanginoa, Westerman



Loose - Arona, Aydin, Crowther, King, Tanginoa, Westerman

Now That the squad is pretty much be interesting to see starting line up / squad numbers are going to be, for me :

1- walker

2 : tj

3 - BTupou

4 - lynne

5 - bjb

6 - miller

7 - brough

8 - fifita

9 - Kyle wood

10 - green

11 - ashurst

12 - Pitts

13 - westerman



14 - r Hampshire

15 - Craig C

16 - kelepi

17 - arona

I’m disappointed you haven’t included Jordan Crowther in the 17.

Who'd you leave out for him DS? I suppose it's a good place to be .

Why I quite like crowther and am sure he will play - but we’ve signed westerman as our starting loose forward , ashurst if fit will definitely get one second row shirt , then between potential new signing - batchelor Pitts and of the 3 known ones think both Pitts and batch are probably in front of him in pecking order - although I do aacept crowther improved last year and batch seemed to go backwards

And if the new signing isn’t a back row and becomes a prop would play kt in back row in front of Pitts etc

Batch only went backwards because of injury ,still high up in the pecking order

I agree but if he wants a starting slot he’s going to have to up his game, whereas crowther was much improved on previous year , but if Chester was content with second row don’t suppose he’d be looking down under - personally think if we have anything like a normal season - there’s going to be a lot of competition to get a game

Adding Tangata



Tom Johnstone

Bill Tupou

Reece Lyne

Ben Jones-Bishop

Jacob Miller

Danny Brough

David Fifita

Kyle Wood

Matty Ashurst

Craig Kopczak

Tinirau Arona

Joe Arundal

James Batchelor

Max Jowitt

George King

Jordan Crowther

Kelepi Tanginoa

Ryan Hampshire

Joe Westerman

Alex Walker

Chris Green

Ryan Atkins

Lee Kershaw

Titus Gwaze

Jack Croft

Yusuf Aydin

Connor Bailey

Oliver Greensmith

Josh Wood

Danny Kirmond

Jay Pitts

Adam Tangata

That's a really strong squad in my opinion and if Broughy has another season in him and Miller and Hampshire also go well then I'm fairly optimistic if we get that all-important dose of good luck, or just no bad luck will do.