Actually I thought Fusitu’a had 2 years subsidised salary from the Warriors. Could be wrong. There are a few seniors who need to step up or leave at the moment it’s fair to say.

If so and I know we are all guessing on here, we’ve got 2 poor value marquee players.

Marquee players need to play every game and make a difference in each one.

McDonnell is bigger than I thought.

Prior,Tet and Fusitua really haven't done well this year.
Looks like Fusitua has a knee injury that won't heal,Prior is too old to keep up and even when Tet managed to not get banned the best was still just "not bad".

If we haven’t signed said Nene MacDonald yet, Maizen looked handy today.

Definitely

Sts have a few big forwards better than Tetevano and Makinson is a better winger than Fustiu'a has shown to date. I don't think a winger should be on marquee money anyway, but when you do go big it needs to be for players who make a real difference every game they play. We've got to get these signings right in the future.

TBH thats an extremely "Leeds" signing. Thats the problem.

George Burgess released this morning, doubt any other NRL club will go in for him. Possible return to SL, get him at Leeds and then entice the brother over the year later? No quota issue and could be cheap.

Another injury prone signing is the last thing we need. If we're are close to the cap we shouldn't be risking money on Burgess, no matter how good he was.

I’d be happy for him to train with us to get / keep fit, but I don’t really see a viable signing.

He's also got a criminal charge to fight I think.

Wonder if we ever considered offering Prior a 1 year coaching deal as either JJB or Sean Longs replacement. Might have been a good way out for all parties given his physical decline but existing contract! He seems to have been considered a good role model.

Doesn't strike me as someone who would go into coaching.

maybe pay him his wage to be assistant to JJB.
another made up job

Sangares workrate bothers me, I just can't see a top player in him.

He’s got some great raw materials to work with, but like many French players, I’m not sure he is willing to work hard enough. Let’s see, if he can adopt the right attitude he’s going to be a real handful, but we’ve both seen plenty that look like Tarzan and play like Jane (no offence intended…).

Even if he only does short minutes as a wrecking ball he'll add something to our pack. Holroyd (if he ever gets fit) aside none of our props really dent the line.

George Burgess

That's the NRL quality isn't it. Not sure he would sign for us? You'd imagine the Panthers, Eels, Storm would be interested if he was available

He's been dumped by the Dragons after barely playing. There will be very few NRL clubs interested, at least until his criminal case is done with.

Not worth the risk even without that IMO. Wigan took a gamble on him and it just didn't work. Eight games in two years for them, 4 games this year for the Dragons. That makes Tom Holroyd look like Keith Elwell.

Ah yes. That's right. He is completely busted and has been for a number of years.

Having watched PNG tonight, any doubts I had about Macdonald not being an improvement have been dispelled. Extremely good out of yardage. If of course that is the way Leeds are wanting to go with the quota spot.

He's very good out of yardage, you are absolutely right, the question mark is his defence which has been exposed on a few occasions in the Championship this season (and for one of Tonga's tries tonight).

Walker going to Bradford or so I’ve heard