Rogers would easily be my pick. He runs really nice lines and swerves through gaps well. However, I doubt we could get him to come over to NZ at this stage of his career.
I don't know if there is a plan B as such. I think realistically we will work on tying up our current stock, including Manu Vatuvei long term, and work to insure we have a good core group of our u20s locked up as well. There doesn't appear to be a whole heap of quality out there, a lot of clubs are stockpiling fringe journeymen on their free agents listed waiting to see what the Storm outcome is. If anything, the whole Melbourne situation I think has made many clubs recruitment plans turn into nightmares.
In truth, we needed to look at props and centres, but there's just no realistic quality out there. No point going for reggies. The only other option is if a top quality pom comes onto the market. But I dare say I'm not sure how successful that avenue will be either, as I'm sure they'll be using Burgess and Ellis as a reference and I'm sure both will happily promote Sydney's prospects as a destination as opposed to Auckland. I would have hoped though Dean Bell would have used his contact list in the ESL to find us some good options. Also, remembering how we got the likes of Brown and Maloney (through Ivan Cleary contacts), it'd be interesting to see if a good talent say like a Chase Stanley who isn't a premier talent yet but very talented none the less is on the market anywhere.
