Give Holroyd time mate. He is a very big thing for his age and needs to physically mature a bit.

With structural type injuries you’ve really got to wait for nature.

If he gets right he’s one of the best front row prospects I’ve seen.

Meant to ask you actually Marty; did you watch the London academy game? They had at least one prop I was very impressed with last fine out - did he play against France..?

Who was Londons No 11?

He was an absolute giant.

Our Academy rightly sets high standards, but they’ve been effected by losing so many of their best players this year. The lads that remain are mostly a little under-age (?) I think and it makes a huge difference at 16/17/18.

Having said that there is some real good talent at other clubs too, and I wouldn’t be averse to us trying to sign one or two more lads from the likes of London - done right of course.

He's good isn't he.

Kai Pearce-Paul. Dont think it's been announced yet but Wigan have paid a transfer fee for him for next season.

Tommy is a great prospect, no bigger fan of him than me, but professional rugby is 24/7/365. Needs to do a better job away from the club of looking after himself. Still young and foolish and time to learn he can become a big star in the game if he knuckles down.


Not sure on the London prop mate. I did watch the game yesterday. Really disappointing performance but never easy down there and we have a young team at the moment. That said that's no excuse. Iwan Stephens was very good again outstanding prospect,, Walters made a couple of nice breaks. The team is guaranteed 3rd now. Missing too many big guns that are gaining experience at a higher level on loan.

Femi Sanya it is - actually U16s so maybe didn’t play the weekend. Looked him up.

Holroyd - you will know more than me about his off-field behaviour, I’ll bow. From what I’ve seen on the field he has the tiger for it but perhaps he needs to learn that it’s not enough at open age to be biggest/strongest lad.

Why have the above players wasted a year?

Because they should have had a few games in the 1st team this year. We need these kids in 3 or 4 years time to really take the club forward and to do that they need to have around 50 SL games under their belts. They need blooding at some point and it hasn't happened this year for reasons we all know about.

Looks the business.