still no news on who the 7 might be?

If it isn't Clune, then I can only imagine it would be Flanagan or Wakeham. Outside chance of the Souths halfback - Hawkins

Unless it's someone under contract?

just hope its clune.wakeham is poor and flanagan or failagan as the bulldogs fans call him isnt much better.bulldogs fans really happy they have signed toby sexton to replace flanagan.

That doesn't count unless he is judging Houghton. I'd be surprised if he has even seen Ackers play.

Just because the Bulldogs don't rate he and he isn't doing great in the NRL, that doesn't mean he wouldn't do well in SL.

I believe Croft was heavily targeted for criticism in the NRL too - he has gone OK over here. I see enough in Flanagan's game to see that he would go well over here. Controlling half, never stops trying even when things are not working

its true you never know how a player will do over here,but ive seen every game flanagan has played over there and hes average at best.

I wonder if players ask for this clause the club could put a financial release clause (like football clubs do) of say 75/100/150K or something similar as compensation for losing the players early, I imagine that sort of money would be classed as small change to NRL clubs but would be a lot for the game over here.

Not sure any NRL club would be willing to pay a transfer fee and in any case the player/players agent would refuse to have a such a clause included in the contract.

Basically if a player wants out he's gone and I can see this becoming the norm in future.

As far as the NRL are concerned SL is a development competition.