Not Quite.



Lets assume, just for the sake of argument, that we have the identical squad in 2014 as this year. The only difference is that Morley decides to retire and current top dog Ben Evans returns. By your argument, Morley is 'replaced' by Hill (no problem) and Woody or Coops replaces Hill, whilst Evans starts to learn his trade with a modest number of starts. Much as I love Woody, he is not as good as Hill (England international), so we have lost some quality in the squad. And Evans is only just starting out, he is not going to become an experienced prop overnight. If you carry that argument across several positions where we have 'ageing rock stars' then the effect is magnified. So the point Sally is making is that yes, we may well have a good team, but not necessarily a silverware winning team.



My point is very similar. But I am looking where we can replace 'like with like'. Outside the club, quality seems to be falling (and Oz too expensive). The likes of Ben Evans need several years (like Myler) to mature, and even then, he may not be as good as Hill. So our youngsters are not sufficiently developed as yet to even know if they will be as good as our star players, let alone replace them. GOB has had the most SL exposure of our youngsters. If he replaces Briers next year, will we have the same quality team ? And Ratchford can not be in two places at once. If you use him at half, who will replace Bret ?

replacing the morleys, westwoods, monaghans will be done the same way they were originally recruited.

That's just shocking, are you seriously asking us to believe that players will change their club just for money ?



pah !

i agree... its a bit far fetched... but its worth a try

But just supposing, totally hypothetically of course because it's a ludicrous idea, but if we were to tap up a top star like Ryan Bailey. How much would he wan't ?

top players like that with loads of grand final winners rings are probably a bit out of our reach tbh.



some things money just cant buy.

I was just starting to get a bit excited there for a minute.





Now you have ruined it all.

His bail money?

in three years time we could easily line-up as follows:



1. Ratchford

2. Riley

3. Bridge

4. Atkins

5. Evans

6. Marshall

7. Myler

8. Hill

9. Clarke

10. Westwood

11. Currie

12. Grix

13. Harrison



14. Dwyer

15. Cooper

16. Laithwaite

17. Evans



For me that would be plenty good enough to win trophies.

Where's O'Brien in your team?

Dual-reg with Swinton. Benji Marshall will need resting occasionally what with being 32 years old.



But seriously with only two new signings then somebody such as O'Brien could be struggling for a spot. Goes to show despite what people like to say perhaps we're not so badly off going forward.

You can't just assume we will buy Benji Marshall and then say 'it just goes to show were not badly off' And Laithwaite is BR not a prop. You would need Benion or perhaps Morrison if we stay in house. Where is my current favourite James Saltonstall ?