Someone told me today there is a split in the camp with one group being pro Radford and the other not. Dunno if it's true but stuff he's told me before has generally been right.

Let's hope Pearson also invests in adding to the coaching staff

Gaz Ellis already now on the coaching staff and i expect he will take charge of the reserve team
I just hope the said four new senior players coming in over the winter are what we need rather than what Radford thinks we need.
I understand Adam Pearson will be taking more of a role in the new 2018/9 recruitment and is in regular contact with Motu

Can’t fault Pearson’s comments, he is passionate and knows he has to spend to get us out of this mess or he will face a financial hit in pass sales anyway. Can we fly Motu back in for a couple of months of wheeling and dealing!?

I thought Motu had swapped rugby league for a job with NZ baseball?

Presumably he's coming over anyway in a few weeks in his new position of General Manager for NZRL.

Missed that - announced 11 days ago! "General Manager for High Performance".

Sorry but Pearson sounds like a feck!n idiot. Proper ranting with no substance. All he means is he'll bin Abdull (who doesnt want to be here anyway), Washy...........errr beyond that i dont think he even knows though.

Me personally id bin the following

Talanoa - great servent but too many poor parts to his game, time to move on
Griffin - massively average - poor defense
Hadley - not 10% of the player Ellis was. Looked good at Wakey last year in a good pack. poop this year and pre-Wakey
Washy - great servent but time to move on
Mini - Will be on a decent salary that can be better used elsewhere
Green - Made of biscuit. Get rid
Paea - needs to bulk up again and find some grunt or has to go

Don't think Mini will be on the list, he is according to all the ultimate professional and has been playing up to now clearly injured.

Would see Manu as in more danger, he is probably on more money, has contributed little this year and really let the team down getting 3 match ban at crucial stage of the season.

Griffin must go, he doesn't have the right character or toughness.

its difficult to know for certain because some of them might be playing week in week out with injuries. guess we might have to wait and see who needs ops in the close season and who stays and goes. my hunch is that there won't be too many changes. the ones who on the surface seem to be underperforming are carlos, griffin, shaul, paea, manu, abdul and to some extent mini and houghton - however as i have said there may be other reasons

First piece of beautiful action from AP

The Chairman’s vote of Confidence

You all know what’s next after the hammering Cas will give us
When you threaten and abuse the players in the papers after a massive loss then they tend to repay you