Spot on Avenger, that'd be my first 17 as it stands too.
Listening to Ste Mills' great interview on the Heritage podcast and putting reports together, it looks like Atoni (Cas), Hood (Oldham), Griffin (York) and Matty Russell (TBC) are on their way out. I'm comfortable with all those - they've been quality for us, particularly in the last 18 months, but we can look to the future now.
The only other two out of contract are Croft and Cozza, and with '3 or 4' more coming through the door (including tonight's announcement), you'd imagine they'll drop down the pecking order or have to go elsewhere. So if you look at our depth, we definitely need a couple of props and, as PT says, a second rower:
Rourke Myers Scott ? Tchamambe Lawford Russell Lingard Doyle High ? ? Pitts
If I were playing Fantasy RL, I'd also want to sign a world-class halfback in the Lachlan Lam mould, a weapon of a centre like Tesi Niu, and a gamebreaking winger like Xavier Savage, which would leave us with a team full of threats and take us to finals. However, that's more for 2027, and I'm more than happy to see how Lawford, Hall, Myers and Tchamambe develop in that time.
For me only Rourke, Scott, Russell, Doyle and Pitts are viable regular options The others are developing. Some may come through quickly but I think they have another year at least.
So we definitely need more middles and Second rowers. The backs I'd like to strengthen but I'm reasonably happy with Rourke, Scott and Russell covering.....and possibly Myers soon.
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