Not a shock to see BA pick as close to 1-17 as are available. Those are supposed to be our "best" and most experienced players, and most will have played under different systems so won't need to be told what to change from scratch. It also gives them first go to impress him, which hopefully they will.

It will obviously be interesting to see how we go against KR, but also what changes start to be made from there. We have no room to experiment or wait for improvement for games on end, so we might see some pretty brutal treatment of underperforming players from then on in.

Two world class props would amount to half our salary cap. It's just not going to happen. We need to come up with two very good props, which as other clubs have proved, is very achievable. Still think Oledski would be a starter though.

A world class prop in Nelson Asofa Solomona is available, the only snag is he gets paid 900kAUD. That's probably a bit rich for us...

We need to find two Kylie Leuluai's for next season.

We need two.

One needs to be a big nasty metre muncher,the other a solid leader that can play it hard in D.

Hoping Eseh,Hudson,Goudemand can do either to the level we need is unrealistic.

Mik would be fine with more support.

Statistically he’s been doing fine. Arguably better.

On the eye test it doesn’t always match up, because he doesn’t have many big impact plays. It’s probably made worse that the fact few other members of our pack have that high impact either.

For all his faults that was something Walters did have last year. But we need both.

Mik is part of the solution not the problem, and anyone who thinks otherwise I’d question what they were watching.

Neruda.
He s not a big impact prop from the bench more like an expensive Ian Kirk or a poor man’s Ryan Bailey but I was asked would I get rid and I replied it depends on how much cap he gets.