The rather scary thought is that based on the last international game played, RM is the incumbent England Scrum Half

True, that is worrying from an England perspective.

Jeez forgot about that, very scary indeed.
He doesn`t appear to play with any desire and is rarely seen shouting at the players to get them in to position let alone able to pull the strings.

Myler has been disappointing this year, but I thought he did okay against Wakefield, and has been one of our better players recently. His kicking game actually suited the conditions. I don't understand why he is being singled out for criticism in a strong all round team performance. Sure, Leeds need better half-backs but we should get behind the incumbents in the shirt when they're putting the effort in.

Lolohea I get being criticised, who made too many mistakes and looked very uncomfortable under high kicks. In his case, he has shown us glimpses of skill but seems to be down on confidence, and condition. Walker is unquestionably our #1 full-back and I agree that Golding probably wouldn't have scored that try... But if Lolohea could sort out some of his demons he could yet prove to be a useful addition. Otherwise, it's going to be tricky to get him out of the contract he's been handed.

He's played without a stand off for his entire Leeds career behind a pack getting mullered on a near weekly basis.

I'm no Myler fan (never have been) but the above is very true.

Raymond Ashton must get a mention. Magic roundabout.

Quality player Ray Ashton. Did you notice I didn’t say good or bad quality...

I kind of liked Ashton. He at least looked like a proper scrum half, and had no fear of trying to organise others. He also played in the Yorks Cup win against Cas (1989?), which was only the second trophy in my time watching Leeds. mind you, it kind of helped that he was partnered by Cliff Lyons....

If you like your 7 to run around in a circle Ashton was your man. Bloody awful in my opinion.

Classic haircut though. And I liked the constant mouthing off from one of our players instead of the opposition.

As an aside, is my memory going completely or did Gary Stephens (father of Gareth) play a game for us once in 86/87? Now he was a good player. Sadly about 10 years before he played for us (if in fact he did).

That may well be the case and I`m sure he would look good alongside a Blake Austin.
But you still need desire and drive and at least try to do something different even if you are playing without a stand out number 6.
Myler for me doesn`t show any of that.
Whilst not a fan of Brough I`m sure he would be no shrinking violet if he was in Myler`s shoes for instance.

Quote: BrisbaneRhino "Classic haircut though. And I liked the constant mouthing off from one of our players instead of the opposition. As an aside, is my memory going completely or did Gary Stephens (father of Gareth) play a game for us once in 86/87? Now he was a good player. Sadly about 10 years before he played for us (if in fact he did).'" I remember Gary Stephens as an assistant coach to Dougie Laughton in 1991-92 but don't recall him playing 1st team at all. Annoyingly there is a gap for season 1987-88 on the Leeds website "timeline": https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1986-1987/ https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1988-1989/ I'm not sure how accurate it is but the following website has him recorded as a Leeds player: https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/play ... mmary.html Does anyone else remember him?

Quote: BrisbaneRhino "Classic haircut though. And I liked the constant mouthing off from one of our players instead of the opposition. As an aside, is my memory going completely or did Gary Stephens (father of Gareth) play a game for us once in 86/87? Now he was a good player. Sadly about 10 years before he played for us (if in fact he did).'" I remember Gary Stephens as an assistant coach to Dougie Laughton in 1991-92 but don't recall him playing 1st team at all. Annoyingly there is a gap for season 1987-88 on the Leeds website "timeline": https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1986-1987/ https://www.therhinos.co.uk/timeline/1980s/1988-1989/ I'm not sure how accurate it is but the following website has him recorded as a Leeds player: https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/play ... mmary.html Does anyone else remember him?

Again said with trepidation, but what is the difference between 7 and 6 these days anyway?
There is no real skill to feeding the scrum as such.
Both positions need a kicking game, distribution game, running game.
For me we could sign / develop two stand-offs and just interchange them.
If you unearth a Rob Burrow then yes you'd put them at 7 to somewhat protect them, but otherwise we just need two skilful, creative players in the halves who are good all-rounders.
Re Myler I've just not seen enough from his game this year in particular to make me think we should keep him. He's a nice lad (again) but his kicking game has been awful most of the time, and it's just not good enough I'm afraid. Yes, we've been on the back foot too much for him to breathe, but in every game we do apply pressure he fails to nail the last play time and again.

The only difference is a number on a shirt, a coach has 2 half backs and how they want them to operate is down to how they want the team to play, the attributes of both and how they compliment each other.