That depends if bluey is gonna stick with him at centre and donald on the right wing!!

smith over hall every time for me mate

Have said it all along Gibson offers absoloutly nothing in attack or defence.
he has shown zero for reserves this season also, and i dont understand why he has been moved up ??? Ablett would have been a better option today.
Watching watkins in the reserves he was absoloutly appalling, he tried ridiculous offloads and fancy passes the first five times he touched the ball
and lost it every time.
Defensively, a poor salford side ran in all but one of their tries down his side...he was terrible.....bring back smith for me.

Watkins looked average in the reserves and insisted on throwing it into touch on the majority of his attacking runs

Gleeson over either of them

Remind me who was the one whining and singing Gibson's praises when someone dared be negative about him last year?

Who was right?

I disagree wth all of you.

Gibson had pace. This is his 3rd game back and I thought he had a decent game today. At full fitness he adds a lot to the team. Give him chance before writing him off... please.

I've seen enough and that includes before his injury.

Not big enough, not fast enough, not explosive enough.

A couple of good passes but nothing much else. I'm not jumping on his back after a loss I've been saying it all season to anyone who cares to listen.

That's fair enough. Who do you think should be playing in the other centre position then (assuming Senior is everyones first choice) ? Or do we need to buy?

Yeah, lets buy someone. It worked for us in the 80s and 90s so well.

Watkins is a kid. He's going to have to learn when to try fancy stuff and when not to. It's called judgement and will take some time to develop. Gibson may or may not be any kind of long-term solution, but I was one of those writing off JJB some years ago as an injury prone sub standard player, so I'm willing to give him a go for a while as well.

Does anyone really think the performance of our right centre had any bearing whatsoever on our inept display today?

I mean, really?

But isn't that what clubs do when they lose first team players when they haven't a replacement ready to step up from the reserves/academy? Where do you think Webb, Donald, Senior, Leuluai, Buderus, Peacock, Lauitiiti, Toopi and Ellis came from. The key is to identify the areas that need strengthening and doing something about it when you have to. Right now it's a bit late to start addressing the squad for 2009 but whose fault is that? If Leeds have to put their hand in their pocket to make something happen now then they only have themselves to blame. The SL is still there to be won and yesterday helps in that regard but it might still take a bit of tinkering with the squad to do it.



So you made a mistake with JJB who nevertheless was beset by terrible luck with injuries. Did Leeds shrug their shoulders and do nothing or did they recruit while he was unavailable?

Personally would use Gibson as cover on the wings or centre, Watkins at centre smith on the wing.

I dont think smith will do well at centre full time or Gibson.

Sad thing is, yes they do.

Smith on the wing eh, which wing would that be. Hall is having a great season so far so that only leaves the other side and i cant see bluey dropping Donald