Boothroyd and Bain will be at risk top I suspect, Bain we haven't seen and Boothroyd is injured long term so I can't see the club hanging onto these two over Uele if he keeps on impressing.

Tbh, I can see us cutting Linos contract or offloading him some how to make room on the quota. We have the money to do it and he's already showed he's not up to scratch at SL level and if I'm honest I haven't been overly impressed with him in the championship either. It would be a big mistake to go into next season with Lino as our number 7 expecting to be in the top half of the table come the end of the season.

Oh and btw, Matty Russell is a fullback by trade, I remember watching him play in the Wigan youth team, I think it's only through lack of opportunity that he ended up on the wing and it stuck like many players.

While I get what you’re saying the right thing to say was that he was a full back by trade in his early days. He’s very much a winger and stuck like you say. Perhaps he could fill in the odd game at fb if needed.

He last played full back in 2017 a couple of games but did play a string of games prior years at FB.

The full back role has massively changed and evolved now into my opinion the singular most important role in the sport.

It’s such a more attacking position now that is critical to plays and requires such a diverse skill set. I’m glad we have Jowitt who over the next 5-7 years is going to start hitting his best years 28-33 or so imo for full backs.

I still believe Jowitt in a couple of years could be running out for England. He won’t be far off. Other than Welsby there’s not much competition.

Player announcement imminent?

Mckmeeken 4 year deal