I agree with you Starbug,as for where are the players are coming from,surely our experience in Championship could point to a few.

We do not need to make major changes. We just need to get some bodies back and tweak a few positions. Why we are persevering with a SL class full back in the three quarters I do not know. It's akin to moving Josh Drinkwater away from 7 and asking him to fill in for Harrison Hanson in the pack! If Brown plays,he is in at full back every week.



Higson Dawson and Crooks need to cover the centre positions between them until Tonga returns shortly.



I think Reynolds is looking a little stale and has earned a breather, if Ridyard is not going to be first choice 6, please give Hampshire a shot.

There seems to be a bugbear some where with not playing Hampshire there H..Possibly time for someone to swallow their pride and give the lad a go.

ATM Ryan Hampshire is our most important player , because quite simply he is a damn good RL player that can put in good performances in several positions , he is our new Lee Smith



So Ryan , please , please keep filing in those gaps , you will get your chance in your preferred position , we do thank you for your patience

So who in the Championship could step up right now ?

I'd be happy with Taulapapa at at the minute..Would be a good buy in my eyes,not sure where we stand on the quota spots at the min.

Quota spots are full. Need a centre and a second rower. How about tyrer and manning?

They are better than we have ?

Would love to see Hampshire given a chance at 6. A few years ago when he played for the Pies in the Battle of the Borough game he started the game at Full Back and didn't play well. At half time he was given a chance at 6 and he was a real threat to their attack. We have nothing to lose at this stage in the season by giving the lad a chance. What will become more important later in the season is knowing what the best positions are for our fit players, and hopefully we will have enough of them available to choose from.

At the moment we have 1 fit centre in crooks, and 2 second rowers in stewart and vea. Tyrer would allow brown to go to full back, and manning would be better than vea, in fact playing with 12 would be better than playing with vea. Am sure there are other options, dont like either tyrer or manning but think they would be reasonable options from the championship.

I wonder how happy McGillvary & Cudjoe are at Giants ?



& also when their contracts expire ?



Might be worth starting the courting process, at least by "giving them the eye" across a crowded SL.

I don't think we should have let Sarsfield go could cover centre and second row.In my opinion we need someone like him or a similar player.its all right having 4 forwards as subs but one of them needs to have a bit of pace to cover for injury to our backs