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.

why was mcshane given such a brief 1st team cameo the other week?

looked livelier than either buderus or diskin & probably could be a better scrum half than burrow too @ the moment

It was an overall opinion taking into account his brief 1st team games and reserve(u20) outings which RG mentioned he'd been poor in.
I'm not annointing him the "next big thing" either but IF he continues his development and performs to his undoubted potential he WILL be the next big thing that the Leeds acadamy has produced imo and i for one look forward to seeing him serve our club hopefully for many years ala the "Golden generation".