Well its been a long time coming, as many of us thought we had got him for this season, until it became apparent that we couldn't agree a fee with Hull. So the speculation has been there since this time last year that he would sign for us from 2014!
Yes there is a worry that he has missed a lot of games through injury in 2012 and 2013, but as we know ourselves from the past two seasons any player can get injured at any time!
A fit Danny Tickle will be a great asset to us for 2014. A couple more signings of his calibre and things will be looking really good.
Be nice if we could announce the futures of our remaining out of contract players, particularly Phelps and Winterstein, so we can start to see what sort of squad we are going to have.
As stated in another thread I think everyone is assuming that Briscoe and Davies wont be being offered new deals with us and we know Cross is hanging up his boots add to that the departure of Hock and that should allow scope for some more arrivals of decent quality!
The only other bit of signing speculation I had read related to a winger (Scott Armstrong) who has just been released by Northampton, got to say he seems an unlikely signing.