Really disappointing news which takes the shine off the taylor signing for me. Leaves us weaker in the front row that I was expecting. ellis is OK at prop but he's a workhorse, not an impact payer. We'll really miss paea

Very disappointing news but this was looking more and more likely.

Good luck to him for the future, I'm sure he'll give his all for the rest of the season and he'll be leaving one Hull club at least on good terms.

yep dissappointed but life goes on and imo we have got a cracker in taylor,cant wait to see who our other signings are

Is Paea an impact player, he just drives hard and makes good yards, exactly what Taylor does, but with more minutes and better defence?

Gutted to be losing Paea, best prop in the league imo.

Presume we have a massive wedge of salary cap available if he was offered a contract to make him our 2nd highest player

Disappointed, but a fairly even swap with Taylor coming in. Would have liked to see both, but never mind.

Wouldn't mind replacing Paleaaesina with a tackle-buster who can play longer now. Depends on Thompson's long-term position.

Disappointed to be losing Paea as this season he has for me not only been a stand out performer for us as a club but in terms of SL in general too as the form prop.

I would hope we would look to replace Paea with another player similar to him as Taylor will have been an addition to the forwards not just a replacement. So a like for like replacement for Paea is a must.

Losing Paea is a big blow. If we had him, Taylor and Watts we would have 3 of the best props in SL.

I can't criticise him for wanting to take the family back home and play first grade NRL. He's been great for us and I hope his form continues for the rest of the season.

It leaves us with 2 very good starting props in Watts and Taylor but the back up is not so good. I'm assuming Feka will be released and Ellis will move up to prop but as has been said he is a work horse and seems to be picking up more and more injuries.

If you add Green and Bowden together they probably make one decent prop.

I really like Thompson but I'm not convinced he is a prop.

I haven't seen enough of BTW to judge him.

So, do we need another prop?

I'd say so. The club had already signed Taylor and still attempted to re-sign Paea so I'd expect us to bring someone else in.