No man crush here.he has the tools to be up there and better than Cunningham in my opinion as does Roby if they continue in the way they are currently.

That is slightly more reasoned.

Roby is almost at that level and along with Graham is pretty much carrying Saints on his back at the moment. I still think it's very early in McShane's career to be saying things like that. Let him develop and see where he is in a year or 2. It's not long ago some Leeds fans were writing him off

2 years is a long time, does he have a long way to go to reach Cunningham standard yes. Is it achieveable? Yes. How will any of us be able to see 2 yrs in the future of a young player?

He has bags of potential and could get there it's not rediculious to think he could get there just someones opinion.

We shouldn't be getting too carried away with him but equally we shouldn't be writing it off completely.

Well said Andy.

Good spell by McShane. Certainly the better of the two hookers we played Thursday (what does that say about Buderus?(, but the jury remains firmly out on McShane. He's been a defensive liability at times this year. One good bench stint against a pish poor Bulls doesn't make him KC and doesn't make Buderus the greatest influence on hookers since Wendell Sailor.

i thought he was great in hi-de-hi

It says nothing really much about the starting hooker but quite a lot about the role of a bench hooker in a two hooker rotation selection.

McShane had another very good spell again today looks like the 2 hooker role is def working now, full credit to him and his mentor

Read it and weep G1

To be honest at the moment McShane is looking the better of the two

The 2 hooker system is working really well. Buderus' defence in the early part of the game is excellent, he really gets stuck in and fills gaps. McShane is providing the more craft of the 2 at the moment, infact he is looking the real deal, which I have always had my doubts he would become if I am honest.

Couldn't agree more.

Why read it and weep? If McShane is capable of this then why waste such cap space and a quota space on someone like Buderus? Diskin could've done the job.

Like I've said for a while, he and Diskin didn't work together because Buderus should've been used from the bench with Diskin starting. However, all this nonsense of Buderus being an 80 min player should have firmly been put to bed now.

While the need to recruit Buderus at the time was questionable he is certainly an upgrade on Diskin. Whether the signing was right or not it's been great to be able to watch someone who will go down as one of the best hookers of his generation. I'm sure McSHane would have complimented Diskin as well but I bet he's learning a hell of a lot more from Buderus.

Although I'm sure you know all that already - keep plugging that agenda