I was surprised at Dagger going but he’s not going to dislodge Quinlan and he’s not going to get in the halves and he needs games

If we get any injuries in props then we look short there now? Suppose tickle Greenwood Tomkins can cover?

There’ll probably be less need for Blair to cover the centres and we have backrowers who can play in the middle, as you say.



Scruton, Jewitt, Kavanagh, Masoe, Mulhern...



Then Tickle, Greenwood and Clarkson as utility options, with the option of putting somebody like Lee, Lawler (not far off fitness was the rumour I heard) or Donaldson at 13.



It could be a problem down the line, but the three-quarters needed some people in urgently and these things have to be balanced, I guess.



I’m still hoping that, just for once, Mario is right and we get Gubb. Don’t even know how feasible it’d be to sort a visa for him though, and the one link i’ve seen in the press was with Widnes.

If you're pinning your hopes on Mario...



(Insert any insult you feel you can get away with here)

Yeah, I get that, and this is where we're not doing enough as a club in development.



Dagger came to Rovers for that specific aim, to play games so we should be making our pathway deliver that.

He’s got talent no doubt about it but needs to bulk up a bit in my opinion

Sheens thinks that Dagger does not have the physique to defend his line against big Super League players. Hence his disparaging description of him as the stick.



He does say Dagger is a real talent who he is expecting great things from in the next 2 years. He simply thinks he needs to bulk up first. Had we kept Dagger and left Hall at Leigh I don't think there would have been a mass protest but the coach thought differently and Hall is the more versatile & experienced.



Hall & Crooks are talented players who have shown flaws at Super league level in the past. Thing is we have Shaw, Minns & Heffernan gone for the season and Justin Carney in a recurring sequence of play one miss five.



Deadline day arrives and it's go with what we have or bring in Hall & Crooks. Even then we had to lose 3 players to stay under the cap. Both players are keen to earn contracts for next year so let's see what they can do.



I'd rather have Greg Inglis but with these two plus Todd Carney we have done about as well as we could have done with very little salary cap to play with.

sums it up well imo bud

Care to revise your statement

Ha! It was always going to happen wasn't it!?!



Nowt worse than a loud mouth on the Internet!

You were right about killing them though

My sentiments exactly Sandro