with regards to worral i just dont think he is good enough like of size strength etc..

i can understand if we had a winger on the bench and did not play but not a 2nd row. Especially as we were down to only 3 subs. If bm does not think he is good enough he should not be in the squad

Leeds did fail with a lot of sets on friday, but we have played that sort of game for karge parts of the last 5 years.

There were times on Friday, when we were making easily twice the meters of Wigan on each set, and they were hanging on

One wonders how the team overcame Diskin's poor distribution en route to 3 championships.

One wonders what peacock was on when he confirmed the point (in his Biog) Leicester is making about the importance of dummy half distribution and went on to say Diskin was one of the best he'd played off.

Is Diskin as good as Buderus at this? Of course not, who is in this comp? Is Diskin top quality and can the team achieve success with his at rake? Well, on the basis of 2004, 2007 and 2008 then of course they can.

Can't fault diskin as british hookers go, but buderus is a different proposition, is the quickest thinker, has better ball handling skills than both half backs, and makes more tackles than 90% of his team mates, test & origin hooker & captain countless times, rotation hooker for leeds?????, could have been sat having a rest with 2 points in the bag when he got injured, Damn right bluey (or whoever tells him diskin should play) has missed a trick.

Whilst I dont dissagree with any of what you have put there, because it is all true.

But the bit failing to acknowledge here is that the squad was better throughout those championship wins, and the competition not as good. Now things have changed and Buderus gave us an edge, an edge that we don't have with Diskin.

Wether that stops us winning again, hopefully not and we will just have to see come October.

Pretty much what I was going to say.

I am not trying to bag Diskin, he is a good hooker, and we have been sucessful with him, but we have been getting by in many games this season by a small margin despite a smaller weaker squad. Buderus has given us that extra edge. With a couple more top players to replace the outgoing ones we'd have been a real handful.