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Going to be funny watching saddened pouncing on anything he does wrong next season.

Someone should write the Maghull Mauler

Phew. I was scared of opening this in case it was a legal summons or offer of a beating.

He's so rubbish. Did you notice they chose not to use video footage? It's hard to make a montage of a guy who falls over himself, gifts the opposition tries with loose carries and knocks on all the time. I hope he is approaching his SL stint professionally and not seeing it as a paid holiday post-retirement from the NRL. He looked badly out of shape towards the end, like watching Robbie Paul at the end of his career versus what he was at the start.

Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"Phew. I was scared of opening this in case it was a legal summons or offer of a beating. He's so rubbish. Did you notice they chose not to use video footage? It's hard to make a montage of a guy who falls over himself, gifts the opposition tries with loose carries and knocks on all the time. I hope he is approaching his SL stint professionally and not seeing it as a paid holiday post-retirement from the NRL. He looked badly out of shape towards the end, like watching Robbie Paul at the end of his career versus what he was at the start.'" If you want some video footage, these are pretty good I think... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQDIqYps ... re=related www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHEoAdYr ... re=related

Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"Phew. I was scared of opening this in case it was a legal summons or offer of a beating. He's so rubbish. Did you notice they chose not to use video footage? It's hard to make a montage of a guy who falls over himself, gifts the opposition tries with loose carries and knocks on all the time. I hope he is approaching his SL stint professionally and not seeing it as a paid holiday post-retirement from the NRL. He looked badly out of shape towards the end, like watching Robbie Paul at the end of his career versus what he was at the start.'" If you want some video footage, these are pretty good I think... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQDIqYps ... re=related www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHEoAdYr ... re=related

He's still a good player. I think he'll go well but the four years is a worry and huge risk!

I think he'll do well as our reserve back. He can come on and fill a number of roles, a bit like Moore did.

However, we cannot allow Lomax or Gaskell to lose game time for him.

Whilst I agree, I think playing Hohaia at 6 with Lomax at 7 will give us more experience in the halves and help him become a world class 7. As Royce uses a back on the bench weekly, I'd expect Gaskell to take this role and with Lance's versatility can bring Gaskell on at 6 to spell either Wellens, or can move Roby to 13, Lance to 9 and spell another forward which could be a smart use of a back interchange.

Think Lance will prove to be a top signing for us and cant wait to see him over here in the Red V!!

Also, the youtube song in the original post is annoyingly catchy

I honestly think lance will start in the halves.

This would leave us with no kicking game, and would, I think, be a step backwards for us as a team.

Perhaps Lance has an excellent kicking game under his cap, but my suspicion is that if he did he would have been playing half-back in the NRL.

Exactly. Which makes his signing even more mysterious. At the time we signed him we knew Kyle was off, but didn't know for sure if either Lomax or Gaskell were any good. So who did they envisage would be doing the kicking?

Lance and Lomax together is too similar. Both runners rather than schemers and neither of them can kick.

The obvious suggestion is:

1 - Lomax
6 - Hohaia
7 - Gaskell

With Lee kicking and Paul Wellens selling programmes.

But it won't happen. So we'll have either Lomax or Gaskell consigned to a spot on the bench as a utility back. Such a waste of talent.

If it was up to me our team next year would be:

Wellens
Makinson
Shenton
Wheeler
Meli
Gaskell
Lomax
Perry
Roby
Puletua
Soliola
Wilkin
Laffranchi

LMS
Clough
Flanagan/Magennis
Lance

Lance would play as an impact hooker with Roby moving to 13 to spell Laffranchi (who will play as a prop).

Foster to fight it out with Makinson/Meli for a wing spot, but I rate both players more highly than him and Makinson can kick.

If Wello starts the season poorly (he ended it very well indeed), Makinson to FB and Foster on the wing.