In Salford's defeat to Cas, Malcolm Alker made 69 tackles and Luke Swain 55. The whole team made 406 and only missed 10. Clearly this doesnt tell the whole story but presumably Gotcha would award the pair of them a 10???

Sinfield hold his hand up to be a ball player, hence his interception pass, the fact that hedoes this is a positive, the fact that it reduces the onus on the SH and SO to be ballplayers and inpose themselves on a game can be a positive or a negative. The fact that we have a creative LF puts pressure on the other forwards to do more dummy running and hitups whilst on the field,fortunately we normally have a Jamoe Peacock to help do this.

Having seen their attempts to do this while Sinfield was out of the side I'd say it's a huge positive...

I agree, but is it a case that because Sinfield is there McGuire and Burrow have not had the full opportunity or need to develop their ballplaying/organisational skills to the full level or has Sinfields presence masked their inability to do this?

If they had been in the game a couple of years, that might well be a perfectly fair question.

As it stands now though, we have seen many enough years to be able to feel certain which bit is a certainty.

danny ward.