saints and wigan churn out better quality young players than us on a consistent basis. We'll be fine unless we get 3 or 4 injuries in the forwards when we'll be in a hole

Pack next year likely to be

taylor
houghton
satae

jones
ma'u

sao

ellis
savelio
griffin
bowden

back up props/13

brown
masi
fash
bienek?
nzongou?

3 of those have barely played a SL game between them

2nd row

lane
cator? - is he even a back rower? Don't know anything about him other than he player for rovers

hooker

no one, but fash will go there if we lose houghton which would be a disaster if long term

So we need to pray we don't get too many injuries or our pack simply won't be competitive. 3 or more and we're in the mire IMO

Think it would look less fragile if one of Green or Paea was staying

Hopefully Masi will continue his progression.

Rangi Chase as back up half back/hooker

If masi ran as hard as fash does he'd be much better

Couldn’t agree more , plus Ellis for me is getting less effective now and picking up more niggles and injuries. It’s swift we shouldn’t have signed , especially if we was planning on keeping the 2 wingers who are playing at the minute . The balance of the squad is odd at the minute unless things change , way to many decent backs ., who will be on a decent wage .

Try Jack Brown there Dave, he’s stocky fit, and aggressive ala Kieron Cunningham, we can use the reserves to try out candidates.

Absolutely no chance of that!

Looking at the stats for Sao and Satae in the NSW they both look a handfull and chew up metres for fun. both get well over 100m per game, and look to have a decent offload game. https://www.nswrl.com.au/players/nsw-cu ... /ligi-sao/ https://www.nswrl.com.au/players/nsw-cu ... ita-satae/ Obviously hooker is a concern, but I seem to remember Cator doing a good job for Rovers at our place last year when it chucked it down. He started that game and put himself about. I'd also like us to sign up another british prop, If we are planning to use Ellis as our fourth prop, it leaves us a little thin on the ground.

Looking at the stats for Sao and Satae in the NSW they both look a handfull and chew up metres for fun. both get well over 100m per game, and look to have a decent offload game. https://www.nswrl.com.au/players/nsw-cu ... /ligi-sao/ https://www.nswrl.com.au/players/nsw-cu ... ita-satae/ Obviously hooker is a concern, but I seem to remember Cator doing a good job for Rovers at our place last year when it chucked it down. He started that game and put himself about. I'd also like us to sign up another british prop, If we are planning to use Ellis as our fourth prop, it leaves us a little thin on the ground.

mwindass wrote:Looking at the stats for Sao and Satae in the NSW they both look a handfull and chew up metres for fun. both get well over 100m per game, and look to have a decent offload game. https://www.nswrl.com.au/players/nsw-cu ... /ligi-sao/ https://www.nswrl.com.au/players/nsw-cu ... ita-satae/ Obviously hooker is a concern, but I seem to remember Cator doing a good job for Rovers at our place last year when it chucked it down. He started that game and put himself about. I'd also like us to sign up another british prop, If we are planning to use Ellis as our fourth prop, it leaves us a little thin on the ground. Great stats, thanks for sharing. The 4 incoming forwards all look like they'll bring some quality to the pack. Agree on another prop.

mwindass wrote:Looking at the stats for Sao and Satae in the NSW they both look a handfull and chew up metres for fun. both get well over 100m per game, and look to have a decent offload game. https://www.nswrl.com.au/players/nsw-cu ... /ligi-sao/ https://www.nswrl.com.au/players/nsw-cu ... ita-satae/ Obviously hooker is a concern, but I seem to remember Cator doing a good job for Rovers at our place last year when it chucked it down. He started that game and put himself about. I'd also like us to sign up another british prop, If we are planning to use Ellis as our fourth prop, it leaves us a little thin on the ground. Great stats, thanks for sharing. The 4 incoming forwards all look like they'll bring some quality to the pack. Agree on another prop.

Am I right in thinking that Sao and Satae have not been announced and therefore not 100% our players for next season?

…. correct.