If Parcel is out for the season, Aiton is a good short term signing. We need some more steel in the middle, having Golding as a back up 9 is asking for trouble.
Crosby is also decent option in the short term.

Sinny has also enquired about a certain former pie eating, Columbian marching powder loving loose cannon

Are you meaning Hock??

It might not go down well, but I mentioned this last night, considering our relationship with Fev, he would have made much more sense than Crosby. I have seen him a few times at Fev, and he has been very impressive. I am of course talking short term loan, not longer.

Hock?? Really?? Why not go balls deep & bring back Bailey aswell. No thanks.

Gareth Hock hahahaha

He was the first choice, but Featherstone politely told Leeds where to go.

Yes of course they did.

Crosby and aiton in

Aiton could play in a halfback role if required - he played there for spells for PNG in the World Cup. He at least would be able to add width to the play in that role. As for Crosby, we're in a needs must situation - we need a big body who can at least play decent spells.

The lack of props this year has been too much of an excuse and with better coaching could have been worked around at least to the extent we won a few more games than we have. But with the benefit of hindsight not signing a new prop once we lost Peteru and then Garbutt for long periods, we basically left ourselves two props short of where we should have been (allowing for Oledzki to replace one). We should have seriously looked once Peteru got injured the second time.