Totally agree. With the Off Season Senior has had, alot of the Knocks and Bangs will have healed and he will be back to the form of a few years ago imho.

Steve Menzies is playing at a very high level even at his age.

I would offer Senior a Contract at a reduced rate for 12 months, after a Pay by Play Trial and ask him to mentor the likes of Watkins, Hardaker and Keinhorst. His experience is vast and would offer a massive improvement to these guys game.

Absolute rubbish even before his injury Senior was a mere shadow of the bald destroyer we'd grown to love.
His defence was weak and his impact ball in hand became very limited now he's been out over a year with a crocked knee and you think he'd be a positive signing???
We may not be top class anymore but we are past Senior and he is past it lets not also forget he isn't "pre-season fit" yet.
Let keith remain the legend he is and stick to doing his "Blakey" from on the buses around kirkstall and get on with developing and coaching what we have.

A mere shadow is better than evident inexperience which is starving 2 of our most potent attackers of Ball. Hall and McGuire used to score Tries for Fun off the back of Seniors Carriers and Assists. Burrow made up in the Defense.

Used to is the operative word there. Think you also under rating Ali's role also. We seriously miss a running backrower down that left channell also.

"USED TO" is the key in your statement he's walking with a limp or at least he was 2 weeks ago.
He was way off his best prior to injury and should be left well alone.
The inexperience isn't starving us of anything the TEAM structure is as much to blame as anything as is playing behind a struggling pack and the insistence of playing a 7 at 9 and leaving a 9 on the bench ,the defence is struggling and we've hardly created any space or offered quality ball for Watkins and Hardaker to use.
Our problems are much more than having Hardaker at LC and a crocked way past his best Senior would add very little if anything other than another place for the opposition to attack.
Also agree with Gotcha re-Ali.

Well something needs to be done, Hardaker looks more & more lost centre as each game passes & Watkins misses more games than he plays. Net result we have no genuine centres and the wingers get no decent ball. Senior isn't the perfect answer but the best of very few options

I said this the last time this came up a few months ago, i think the problem is people are remembering the Senior of 2004 which was great. The Senior who played the first 3rd of 2011 was really poor, especially in defence where he left Hall out there on his own quite a few times.

Plus after the YEP story last week of Keinhorst apparently being on the verge of a first team call up i would suspect he might get the nod before Keith. He may or may not be good enough for this level but only one way to find out, but i would wait until after the next 2 games against Wigan and Wire before giving him a chance.

Re-signing Senior until the end of 2012 is a Risk, but a Risk worth taking.

Worse things could happen.

Just a few of the comments around the time of player and club parting ways July 2011:

My how absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Senior was my hero for years, but was clearly slower, less powerful, and very much less decisive in both attack and defence during the last couple of seasons.

I can understand the yearning to bring him back to fill a gap, but I fear more for the gaps that he may leave in our defence if he returns.

if watkins is out do you think Brian McDermott will play Jimmy Keinhorst he said he is closing in on his Super League debut.

I doubt he'll chuck a young lad in for his debut against the pies or the wire, Ablett to continue where he left off in the centres I reckon