wow the sutty bashing season comes round quick (and it seems certain posters look forward to it), i feel for him it seems just as he settling in to a position and looks like he could make it his own like full back at the end of 2016 or centre back end of last season we pick up an injury and for some reason McD has a default setting of lets move sutty again. For me when moon pulled out the obvious choice would be to bring in the next half back (lilley) or has that ship sailed.

Personally would have both in 17 as much as possible and imo best way to do this is keep Sutcliffe at centre and use keinhorst as a second rower, with JJB, Ablett and Delaney all nearing the end of their career possible as soon as end of this season if we mold keinhorst into a fine second rower which he has all the qualities to do so, he could easily be that Carl Ablett type player who can switch between second row and centre for at least another 5 years, and keep Sutcliffe at centre and let him make it his own.

That makes a lot of sense. What are you doing on here?

How short peoples memories are. Whilst Sutty hasn't started the season in the manner he ended last year, this "Jimmy should play instead of" nonsense is just that. Jimmy had a great game against KR, no disputing that, but that is one game. Sutty performed very well for the back end of last season and appears to have found his position. He was awful against KR but was playing out of position, called in at the last minute and had to put up with a forward pack (bar Stevie) intent on making a world record for knock ons. Cooper Cronk would have struggled. Sutty has some development in him but will be a very good centre.

Bit harsh to say it's just one game as he was rightly Fans player of the year in 2016 and was going as good if not better at the start of the year as Sutcliffe did at the end.

Criticism of Sutcliffe in the thread is harsh. I think Keinhorst is the better centre and would be my preferred choice but that doesn't mean Sutcliffe isn't good there also. Preferring one player to another doesn't mean you don't still rate the latter.

And there lies the ills of modern society, has to be one thing or the extreme other, left or right; good or bad...for another time maybe.