will be a great signing for us - good pre season and could be pushing for 1st team, would say he would definitely be one of the fastest players in super league

Go on Cas Website and search in TigersTv for "9's"



There are 2 videos on there from Bradford & Fev. Where Greg was the stand out player, Certainly showed some skills. That with the right coaching, You lot will get to enjoy for years to come.



Just give him a chance at Full back. I am sure it will prove a good signing

RL express article says we are close to announcing Luke George - this makes me think maybe jamie simpson will be going home at the end of the year

with 2 years of a contract left to be paid to him?? maybe 2 much competition for places in the backs, (not as much as our 2nd row though!!) if the eden and george signings are both confirmed.



Grix/Eden

Jerry/Simpson

Wardle/Lawrence

Cudjoe/Gilmour

George

if hes found a contract else where in the NRL we wouldn't have to pay anything

Thats a big if for someone who only played a handful of games when over there, and not set the game alight over here. I'd agree with you it would be best all round though, just dont think its very likely

miles greenwood ??? would be very surprised at that coming off or being true.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Winitana out of contract strike centre who would come cheap and can score tries

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Winitana out of contract strike centre who would come cheap and can score tries

I think people have expected far too much of Simpson, combine that with only a handful of starts I find it strange that so many have made a final judgement on him.



I saw enough at Leeds to be confident that given a pre-season under Nathan Brown he could be a good player.



There is a reason Nathan Brown signed him, I just think we are yet to really see it.

I thought it looked more like a Thewlis signing ala Korkidas and Finnigan, than a Nathan Brown signing to be honest. My opinion is that if we sign from down under they should be Origin or International quality. We have plenty of British 'Simpson' quality players on the books. Nothing against the lad, but he is not of the quality we need in the backs.

So Possible Players to leave are:



Griffin to Leeds ( not sure whats going on with this )

Kirmond to Cas ( Rumour on Cas Boards )

Raleigh to Hull KR ( Rumour )



Possible Ins:



Greg Eden ( Likely )

Luke George ( Likely )

Chris Heighington ( would love to see him at Giants it but i doubt we could afford him )

Ben Flower ( can see if Griffin goes to Leeds )

Where does the Heighington rumour come from. Apart from the fact he is a good player and has a British passport i have not seen any link and as far as i know he has just extended his contract at Wests.

If Hodgson leaves and George comes in that leaves us in the same position as this year for senior backs. Eden would be more of a project player who would not be considered first team initially. It may also be the case that Lawrence is used more in the forwards next season.

there was an australlian site a few weeks back that said Heighington is been tracked by several english clubs for 2012 and has been given permission to speak to them - we were one mentioned, ill try find the link

I really don't see us having much money spare for big overseas signings, personally. Hopefully in the next 3 or 4 years we're going to see more and more young home grown lads push through and long term this is surely the best way to go as the NRL cap increases which in turn will help them retain their best players.

it was Leeds or Widnes but he decided to stay in NRL

would of thought the griffin situation would of been announced by now? if he stays thats good news but was supposed to be a done deal and prob still is.



wont be happy if kirmond goes! sure he has two years left on his contract too

There is no reason not to have announced the Giff move. I'm going to assume it's not happening till it's official from the club.

Thought he was one of the few players who played well against Salford - and he had a difficult comeback playing at a few different positions in that game.

Having just watched super league supermen, I thought that Sam tomkins came across quite well, so Nathan now has my permission to sign him as a giant.

A rumour from a workmates daughter who works/knows someone at Fax,,,dunno if there's anything in it but thats what i heard

I wonder if the signing of Eden plus Wakey staying in SL means that Aaron Murphy will not be coming now

cant see us signing greenwood - what would be the point grixy doing a great job, we have cover there now as for murphy dont think we now need him either tbh - he only was interested because everyone expected wakey not to get a licence he doesnt really want to come or he would have come with fergie earlier.

would not have thought he had shown up well enough for any SL team showing interest.

I guess the idea would have been to nurture him and possibly make him a utility player,possibly like Grix or Kirmond ??



not seen enough of him myself but looks ok when i've seen him on TV

Griff will be announced at Leeds when they need to boost their season ticket sales by announcing the capture of an England International.



Assuming they've the funds to pay the transfer fee.