It's a familiar tale. I watched Luther Burrell's Wire debut away to London, and I could quickly tell that he had no chance of making it in RL. He actually looked like he was anxious about the ball coming to him. Where was the due diligence on that recruitment? Yes, he was a cheap gamble, but throwing him into the team almost as an experiment just made us look unprofessional. I wonder how some of these woeful recruitment decisions are made, and who is responsible for them. As others have said, there are numerous such examples and a lack of accountability.

Good news, Nene is brilliant and i think he would add so much to us. Like you say though, depends if he even wants to come back here, as he has flittered between teams and going home and coming back etc.
Fingers crossed though

He’d be a significant upgrade on our current right centre.

Genuine strike centre, be a good addition. Just for the rest of the year or are they looking at a multi year deal?

Apparently Burgess is looking to sign Tui kamikamica, i wouldn't mind him here at all. Another big bulldozer prop like Vaughan, he'd be a much Welcomed forward for us. Him, Vaughan, Byrne, Harrison, Philbin etc makes us look MUCH better.
He might take a paycut to stay at Melbourne though as that looks like his only choice to stay in Oz.

I am always sceptical these days with overseas recruitment ,too many come with either lack of commitment or disciplinary baggage. Remember Roy Has it easy & i'm sure Ese Ese would soon change his name to Easy does it once he got his feet under the HJ table.
Chris Hill was still doing a good job last night.