He's a real trier Clough and I think it's fair to say he runs above his weight, but I wouldn't be too impressed if he was being called upon to 'lead' the pack. He's pretty good in the contact for his size but he won't be dominating the collision in attack or defence.

Agree. Back row, outside backs including stand off is comparable to anything in the bottom half of SL.
We're obviously dependent on Harry S but every side has a limited number of players who can go to 7. Hull have signed a bus load of scrum halves and HKR haven't got a 1, 6,7 or 9 as of right now.

If we were able to hold out own in the middle third, I reckon we could beat some of the lower SL sides. Right now it's quite a big 'if'.

When we signed Clough, I immediately considered him as a 2nd rower, not a prop.
In my mind I had our pack lining up like this:

Addy or Peterson at loose
Ferguson & Clough in 2nd row
Sidlow/Offerdahl/Tahraoui/Davies as props
AoB/Halafihi as hookers

And we would have had Fleming as back up or rotation prop, with Clough being able to move up to the front row if necessary as we have plenty of second rowers.

Offerdahl leaving means we're a prop short in my scenario, it's as simple as that.

If I were Jimmy, I'd be having a look round the SL sides to see if there were any big units from the reserves/U19s who fancied a season's loan with us.
Failing that, have a look at the reserve grades overseas or anyone available from the Championship.

I don't think we could afford Carvell, and I'd consider him a risky signing after that recent neck injury anyway?

Has Richard Moore's future been officially sorted? I'd take him in Offerdahl's place if not.

Even in rainbow lovey-dovey world of hippies where flowery bygones are bygones, surely to goodness no one can advocate trying to sign someone who walked out on us. That would be mind-bogglingly odd in my opinion.

Moore, I think, has joined Halifax

table with players vital stats now on 2015 squad thread original post, so you can chew over the options with a bit of background info however difficult it is to compare the different standards in the respective leagues each player was in last season.

Great work mate thanks for keeping this updated btw think Offerdahl needs deleting

thanks FA. I have put "Gone" as his alternate position, reading between the PR lines if he gets fit approaching the super 8s we would be interested if nobody else has been drafted in.

Moore is definitely off to Fax.

Interestingly it wasn't for much money from what I hear.

Anyone else been looking on the Mackay Cutters website to see who'll probably be replacing Offerdahl?!