Who pays what is of no relevance to me the fact that he is considered a good signing does. I don't remember many complaints when we did not extend his contract and I have not seen anything to change my opinion recently.

I fear we are somewhat tieing Smith hands before he even takes over if Howarth is the best we can do. To have signed him on loan was bad enough but 18 months suggest we are looking at a replacement for one of our current squad.

Underlined is the part of my post that you are clearly upset about, if you cannot comprehend the meaning of the word hitherto, I'd be happy to explain it, the way you are playing atm is a credit to your club and fair play to Radford for that, I hope the first three words in your last sentence are a typo, because as you say you are much improved but brilliant nah don't think so, I watch 8 NRL games live every week and I would not even describe those games in that vane, and certainly not in SL and even if you do manage to get in the top 8 describing your club as brilliant is stretching it a bit.

Be nice if he went on bench to spell McShane freeing up Godinet to play at 6

Could he play at hooker with McShane allowing Godinet move into the halves????

Hope Brian Smith was involved in the decision to sign Howarth...

I meant to say not brillant!!!

Possibly freeing Miller up to leave, which complies with recent and rumoured departures of overseas players making room for B Smith recruits.

We are talking about a no 9. I know many rate the present no 9 but for me he is over rated and probably on his way at the end of the season anyway. I think How art will do a job and hopefully show some determination and guts and that will do for me. The whole squads been gutless all season , I haven't even seen them show any aggression or get upset and want a flair up after a drubbing. Let's all smile and shake hands and congratulate the opposition after being trounced. They should want to get down that tunnel ASAP and not show those sickly smiles for all to see. It's taking the ....

Not sure why you have quite such a downer on Howarth, he's not a bad squad player and I think you know it.



Although I personally rate him and as you know I'm a far better judge of a player than you - I do concur with you that he isn't what we need right now and his signing will probably make zero difference should it happen. The team is currently flu of players just like Howarth who in a half decent team can look OK. What we need is a leader and a creator or at the very least a player who at least looks like he enjoys playing.

I guess you have not seen a lot of Howarth because he is not you are hoping for and yes I believe our present number 9 is a good player the problem is the way we have been playing no one can look anything better than average.

howarth will add to our defence. and if riley plays we can expect more shooting in missing tackles etc