Quote: Gotcha "Since Connolly we have only had one decent defensive fullback, and he was forced out and also had anti agendas against him. Didn't see a lot of emphasis put on defence then by the same posters.
If people actually watched games instead of highlights they would also see that Walkers defence is not a cause for concern. Is there better? yes there is, but then you lose the other aspects.'"
Agreed Walker is not the reason we are shipping trys for fun. Also a lot of posters on here are quick to say throw the youngsters in, and when we do give a youngster a chance they expect them to be the finished article - Walker is 19 and still learning his trade in a side that is low on confidence and has a very leaky edge defence.
On the Catalan game, I thought again we looked to have improved a bit but our lack of confidence means if its close we are always in danger of throwing the game away (like the London game) I thought Merrin and Hurrell were excellent, yes Hurrell lost the ball a couple of times, although I would argue the one where he threw the ball away the ball was clearly knocked out but he has to work on his ball retention.
Watkins looked to have a bit of confidence back after his horror show against Wakefield but still has a way to go to be fully fit, thing is what do you do, that will only come with game time. I think we can win against Car, they are not the outfit they have been over the last couple of years, my only worry is if we get off to a bad start we don't look capable of clawing a big margin back.