For literally months now we have heard speculation in the Hunter that Daniel Saifiti may be secretly being shopped to other clubs.

With the club's sensational late-season run, the talk seemed to go away. Perhaps a "isn't broken, don't fix it" mentality?

Now that the season has ended though, the rumours have seemingly been turned up to eleven, with the Origin prop again linked with a move.

With Newcastle potentially looking to move him on, below are five alternate, and likely destinations for the monster prop:

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1. Cronulla Sharks

I'm very much on record as saying that the Sharks are an Origin-level prop short of a genuine crack at anything worthwhile.

They don't have an obvious pack leader. Toby Rudolf is a strong option as your second prop while the likes of Hamlin-Uele, Finucane, Hunt and Kaufusi all seem way too similar.

The Sharks should be the first team on the phone should Saifiti become available.

He immediately walks into the Sharks starting line-up as their pack leader and improves their engine room.

The only issue here could be lack of cap space. The Sharks went in big in upgrading all of their off-contract stars.

They are seemingly actively trying to move Matt Moylan on while Connor Tracey is constantly being linked with a move with regular First Grade in mind.

While Jesse Colquhoun presents as a magnificent prospect, he is still a year or two away. He also lacks that pure size that Saifiti would bring.

I would be shocked if the Sharks aren't in this discussion.

If they're not, I would be hugely disappointed after seeing the pack dominated routinely at the business end of the season.

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  1. If the Sharks have no money – having squandered it all on upgrading their existing squad, then the coach and the Recruitment & Retention guys need to be shown the door.

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