I'm sure it will be Diskin and McShane next season. What people are forgetting about McShane's situation is that he will have been spoken to by the coaching staff, and no doubt told that if he shows patience he will be the rotation hooker once Buderus leaves. He hasn't been left in the dark and frozen out completely. Buderus may want to play on but I'd be very surprised if that was with us.

If Buderus shows the form from his peak then it's a tough decision to let him go.

That it is. But as I've said on another thread, I'm a big fan of his, but the club has to look a little more long term. I think Buderus' coming out and saying he fancies another year has given them a problem they didn't want or anticipate.

So our hooking next season if Buderus was to leave would be shared by a player who has had limited first team experience, and one has has had hardly any?

Are you for real?

Not if we also keep Buderus until the "youngsters" gain experience.

Is there any need for personal insults for expressing an alternative idea to yours which obviously is biased towards Diskin.


As it happens, if Buderus perfroms like we know he can for the rest of the year I'd consider a new deal and send McShane out on loan for 12 months. That would go against what people say about McShane learning from him though.

I still dont think we should have signed Buderus though.

I apologise for suggesting you might be biased against Buderus. The thing is though we DID sign him.

Having 2 hookers in the 17 doesn't work great for us or it hasn't so far. If next season Diskin and McShane are in the 17 every week and it still isn't working what do we do then?
I'd forget about how many years Diskin and Buderus have left in them because some people are saying Diskin has 3 years left and Buderus has 1. Menzies is playing at 36 and doing well, Buderus is what, 32, so he could have 3-4 years left. At the end of the season i hope the club let one go and retain the one who has shown the best form throughout the year, forget the sentimentality towards Diskin because he's won GF's, you want the best hooker for next season and for McShane to be given a chance.
IMO they should both be given a chance to play 80 minutes at hooker for a couple of games each and the best one to get the spot and the other be dropped with an extra forward on the bench and have to wait for his chance to get back in either through training hard or injury.

To save any arguments about favoratism or biased the club could just release both hookers at the end of the season, give McShane his chance and move Burrow to the impact bench role with Mags 7 and Sinni 6.
Easy enough

I would unless it was only a 1 year deal.

I would release Buderus too.

I still would like to see us go with McShane with Burrow as impact hooker and a class half back in there. But think the club will cotton on to this too late.

Edit: Posted before reading the post above.