Wane has confirmed that an investigation is taking place and the club will release a full statement once it is complete. Until then no speculation or names please.



For those who can't help themselves, have a read of this.



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Depends who he's referring to!

I'd be careful - Think your guessing at the wrong guy

He would be great over here, he would also serve as a top notch bench hooker complementing either Powell or McIllorum's style.

Agreed, Very good player.



Don't know about the 'bench' bit, though.

Dumped into the reserves due to an Infamous night out?



Topical.

I don't mean that disrespectfully to him, I just mean I think he would provide real impact off the bench. These days I do not distinguish between the bench players and starting players that are forwards, they should all contribute equally although sometimes in different ways.

I was guessing given the person being discussed on the topic at the time. Fingers crossed it isnt t'other one

Yep. He'd be after a fair wedge though, I imagine. Which brings me to the marquee player rule; are clubs allowed one "marquee" player per season? So Sam was apparently ours for this season, could Segeyaro be the one for next year?

Caught sight of the Observer back page which says we are now favourites to sign Leuluai.

Since the rumours first started Timkins has come back in and Williams has hit form which has in turn helped Matty Smith and Sam Powell.



I now don't see the sense in signing him when there's clearly gaps elsewhere. He was outstanding for us but they can't let sentiment get in the way of building a well balanced squad. We need a new winger and a tough prop and if there's enough money a good player to kick goals.

Would anyone take Josh Griffin at Salford? Tough, young, fast(?), centre/wing who can kick goals. He's out of contract at the end of the year but heard he might be signing for Saints. I think he'd do a good job for us.

No thanks, not as good as our current centres and I'd hope we would be going for a an NRL player to replace Charney assuming we can't bag McGillvary or Solomona, who I gather are both under contract. Griffin's goal kicking isn't great either, similar percentage to Smith, perhaps slightly worse IIRC

Smith is kicking fine at the moment, and as I've argued before, his career figures are as good as so called "good" kickers like Cam Smith. Unless you're getting a Thurston or a Croker (and neither seems particularly likely), the difference between kickers is pretty marginal.

Helps if the Kickers team can score tries up the middle of the park.



I imagine that we have been mostly out wide over the last few years

Seems he's signed for Hull FC anyway! How wrong I was.

Observer saying as well as us being favourites for Leuluai that Kris Rads is currently in Australia to sign up a replacement for Charnley.



Joe Burgess hopefully (I notice he's not in the team again for the Roosters this weekend).

The last time I saw Joe play for the Roosters he had a complete, mare; dropping balls, defensively out of position...



I suppose it's a bit of a vicious circle confidence-wise, he was good under the high ball at Wigan.

I thought Joe's occasional howlers could be forgiven at Wigan as a trade-off for those spectacular long-range tries he kept scoring. I'd imagine in Aus they are less tolerant of such errors because they have so many fast, young wingers queuing up for the shirt.



For his sake, I kind of hope he makes it over there, but then I'd like to see him come home sooner than later.

I honestly don't see him making it now. Not at the Roosters anyway, they have too much competition for the back line, because even the players that can play centre for them can also play wing. They have SKD, Ferguson, Aubusson, Copley, Elliot, Tupou.

hes not out of position its the defence they play. The week after when Tupou played he was exactly the same and he isnt a bad un. Burgess hasnt been given a chance hes 4th choice covering injuries,

Yeah, I remember that. Well, they are leaking tries, so that defence could do with a bit of fine-tuning!



I suspect JWarrior is right,though, for the reasons he says.

Get him back here! He went too early IMO and would have been better served developing his game here. I think we all know how good he is but for whatever reason it doesn't look to be working out.



A back line of Tomkins, Manfredi, Gelling, Gildart and Burgess looks good to me.

I'd love to see Burgess back, he's as close as you'll see to a traditional winger, I was well and truly and gutted when he confirmed he was going.