If Lenegan does not get his finger out and bring in McGuire quick he will end up at Newcastle Knights. Just released there coach early and they happen to play Melbourne Storm tomorrow when a deal could be done.

still to agree terms with darrell griffin.
not there yet!

Given Hudds success he may decide to stay put then. When is his contract up at Hudds?

im not sure when his contract is up mate...

as obvious as it sounds its all gonna come down to how much money were prepared to offer him, so who know's whats gonna happen.

think hes keen to come though thats the impression i get.

He said we haven't signed anyone yet and the reason he hadn't signed a Prop was that he couldn't get value for Money.

At that point a disgruntled fan said "You told us we had the Money to sign someone but now your telling us we can't afford anyone" and IL got a bit Irate.

He said "We can afford someone but he CHOSE NOT to as signing a Prop for example on 200k a Year could potentially mena not being able to Keep and Pay 4 youngsters on say 50k a year".

He then said that "If" we choose to stay with what we have this year for Next then this will allow him to Keep and upgrade the contracts of more juniors than originally planned.

He Never said we "Wouldn't be sigining anyone" or gave an impression that we weren't likely to sign someone.

I think he was just playing his cards close to his chest and as he said "We aren't going in over the odds for Back End of their career players i.e 30/31 year olds with possible Off the Field problems or potential injury risks if that puts at risk the Junior development".

PS

I am not agreeing or disagreeing with him BTW just getting frustrated at Inaccurate reporting of what was said.

Thanks Juke. i wasnt at the forum and so can only go off this board.

Hopefully the deal will be done or very close to being finished and for obvious reasons of not disrupting the end of the season we haven't announced it yet, what I would say is if we have signed McGuire when is the right time to announce it?

If we are going to sign Griffijn then excellent but who next year is he going to take the spot of, for me both Presscot and Coley deserve there starting place and the impact that Feka brings is immense so I can't see us leaving him out, that only leaves Fielden and If Noble is in charge there's no way he'll be dropped, however if Mcguire is in charge then he'll have no favoritism towards any player so that'll be an interesting call.

So say we dont make any new signings but get mcguire as coach and lam as assistant, would be interesting to see wha these two can do what noble couldnt with a squad of:

1. Phelps
2. Roberts
3. Gleeson
4. Goulding (no signs of carmont resigning yet)
5. Richards
6. Sam
7. Leuluai
8. Prescott (would love it if he was given the number
9. Riddell
10. Coley
11. Hansen
12. Joel
13. Lockers

14. Feka
15. Fielden
16. Mossop
17. McIlorum

18. Farrell
19. Ainscough
20. O'Carroll
21. Pryce
22. Thornley
23. Davies
24. Tuson
25. Vievers

Carmont is staying on next season.

1- Phelps
2- Roberts
3- Gleeson
4- Carmont
5- Richards
6- Tomkins
7- Leuluai
8- Coley
9- Riddell
10- LMS
11- Hansen
12- Tomkins
13- O'Loughlin

14- Fielden
15- Palea'aesina
16- McIllorum
17- Mossop

18- Prescott
19- O'Carroll
20- Goulding
21- Farrell


Ainscough, Pryce, Flannagan, Tusson out on loan NRL/NL1 or 2 clubs for the season.

I would bring in LMS if not I would keep Bailey on for one more year and try to bring LMS in next year.

Wouldn't be overly upset if we bought Griffin as it would be competition for places but LMS is something special and I would pay a transfer fee I just hope IL has the cohoneys to try to sign him without being scared of being accused of favouritism towards us.

Morley/Burgess/Graham or LMS are the only props I would be really interested in us signing with LMS being the favoured one IMO.