Briscoe was off, regardless. He wanted NRL and lets face it, he'd have had a decent centre partner there and would have been a sensation with his freakish strength and speed.



As his form fell, the overseas offers fell too. He knows he'd have better chances at Leeds.



He'll be a full England international now and the best of luck to him.

Colbon looks steady but nothing spectacular (too early to really judge though) and would be worth keeping as a back up I think. Crookes is too injury prone for my liking.

This ^^^.

Agree with that last bit in particular.



Considering all the question marks over him and then his late arrival I think the bin man has been excellent. Not the quickest in the world, but he's safe, looks for work, and is very strong when he carries the ball. I was watching him in the Salford game and he never loses his front in the tackle. We always get a roll on after his carries because he gets it played so quick.



He's not Tom Briscoe, but he is as good a replacement as we could have hoped for imo.

Be hard to find a winger. Don't think we'll go for a big name. Centre would be a priority. Therefore we're simply looking for a back up to lineham and binman (if we get him signed up) crookes for me wasn't remotely as bad as made out last year and when fit (which is a problem granted) is as good a squad winger as you'll get! But we need decent cover as lineham isn't exactly durable!

Thank god he stayed then. Briscoe is great but not what we needed outside a centre who doesn't pass, and Tickle is well past it.

You would hope with Lineham that he has just been unlucky and will get an injury free run at some point. I would be more concerned if he was regularly doing his hamstring, or his knees were shot, but all his injuries have been picked up in isolated incidents, rather than the same things flaring up time and again.

Tickle is no loss, but I can't agree with Briscoe. Yes we didn't use him to his full ability, but he was a brilliant player for us and if he changed his mind and wanted to come back I would have him in a heart beat.

According to Blunderside this morning, Worcester RU were supposed to be holding a press conference later today. Howevever nothing has been reported yet and there is nothing on their club website.



On the other hand neither Hull nor Biggs have denied the rumours.



I'm sure at the last fans forum AP said Biggs would be here in 3-4 weeks. Obviously we are well past that now, but it would be interesting to know what has changed since then.

If FC denied/confirmed all the rumours surrounding them they'd never have time to get anything done

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Agree on Tickle. His immense goalkicking aside I don't think he was bringing too much to the team by the time he left. I feel we definitely got his best years prior to that. Briscoe has the x-factor and I think most teams would welcome him. I wouldn't have complained if he'd stayed knowing what he's capable of. I think we're doing well without him though.

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