Will Tim Lafai's career reach greater heights with St George or?

Recent events in the NRL have only reinforced in my mind how and why the NRL should introduce a Transfer Window. I'd be the first to admit how fun the past month or so has been with players who were nicely settled with their respective clubs at the start of the year, now suddenly finding themselves on the open market as NRL clubs scramble to snatch a signing who could push them into the upper echelon of the NRL.

All of this however came to be without any intention of it happening, thus keeping the NRL in the news even though we find ourselves in the deepest, darkest depths of 2015. In theory I should be rummaging around the NRL looking for yarns to spin right now, yet I have been fed a diet of player movement which has been great. So why not just introduce a Transfer Window starting mid-November and finishing mid-December?

This way, instead of an the unexpected mayhem that we have seen most recently, fans, clubs and players will be able to anticipate the Transfer Window. For fans and the NRL, this will ensure that hype around the NRL remains while clubs will be able to better plan their roster and schedule around the Transfer Window.

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The one catch for me is that contracts mean zilch in the NRL - one of the reasons I found the hoopla made about Daly Cherry Evans' backflip so funny. Australian media likes to paint this as 'easing salary cap pressure' and with zero bullshit it simply means that NRL contracts are silly.

Peta Hiku was told that he could see what was on offer from other NRL clubs ... /Manly Sea Eagles told Hiku that they weren't keen to honour his contract.

Dylan Walker had his contract ripped up by the Rabbitohs under the prescription drug drama, which I saw as highly convenient....

Walker and Chris McQueen's contracts with the Rabbitohs became merely silly bits of paper when Sam Burgess was signed.

Will Hopoate signed with the Bulldogs because Parramatta didn't want to honour his contract.

Robbie Farah's drama came to be thanks to Wests Tigers not wanting to honour his big ol' contract.

And James Roberts is now floating around the NRL free market after general stupidity allowed him an out of his contract.

While all of this is very entertaining, we could have entered the Transfer Window knowing which players were up for grabs and who wasn't. Simple, all you gotta do is give it a name and celebrate the Transfer Window and boom, you've got a little NRL extravaganza in December.

The centres received a lot of attention on these pages, so I've got to explore the Gold Coast Titans' signing of Chris McQueen. Let's get one thing clear about McQueen - he's not very good right now. Sure, McQueen has reached State Of Origin heights but he swiftly got overtaken this season as he endured a season of nothingness, floating between the edge and lock for the Rabbitohs and offering no resemblance to the McQueen we had grown used to watching.

A move to the Titans could be precisely what McQueen needs though as the Titans go about quietly re-building their roster, filling holes with shrewd/smart signings. I'm a strong believer in this low key approach that the Titans have adopted as they haven't exactly poached a big name, instead they are slowly putting together a roster that will get better. Again, Australian media tend to view this as a negative, apparently if you don't have a star signing, you're shit.

McQueen joins a forward pack that looks refined - bye bye Dave Taylor and Nate Myles, who is a great player but impact isn't his go - with a touch of youth seeping through. McQueen, Ryan James, Luke Douglas, Agnatius Paasi, Eddy Pettybourne and David Shillington are all very solid NRL forwards who could play with a chip on their shoulder so keep an eye out for a rugged Titans' forward pack next season.

James Roberts' departure however is a massive blow as he's an absolute gun. It looks as though Roberts is eyeing up the Broncos, which would make the Broncs one heck of a team but would also mean that our kiwi Jordan Kahu probably won't get Justin Hodges' starting centre spot. I love Kahu, so my fingers are crossed that Roberts doesn't become a Bronco.

And then we have Tim Lafai's move to St George. Why the Dragons continued to chase a 'big name' (cue Australia's need for star power) instead of settling with their outside back stocks which are incredibly healthy (Nightingale, Dugan, Aitken, Mata'utia, Glymin) and the low key impressive signings of Melbourne's Kurt Mann, Titans' Kalifa Faifai Loa and Junior Kiwi/former Rooster Taane Milne, well let's just say the Dragons confused me.

The Dragons already had a backline that I was pretty excited about and had built this backline relatively cheaply, so to bring in a high profile centre like Lafai is a bit odd. If Dugan is playing fullback, the Dragons still have four options at centre: Aitken, Mata'utia, Mann and Lafai with the latter two coming (you'd assume) in to play centre. Mann and Lafai are very good centres, both capable of playing rep footy down the track but Aitken and Mata'utia were pretty impressive themselves last season so who knows how things will pan out ... go the underdogs (Aitkent and Mata'utia)!

Everyone loves depth though, including me. To win an NRL Premiership you need cover in every position and as Warriors observers will note, this cover needs to be certified NRL cover, not just a youngster. There's always a balance of having too much depth - which pushes good players out of a club - and not having enough depth, at least we have the Dragons to use as an experiment.