I am quick to dismiss him based on what I have seen. I have never saw him "ghost through a defence" or cause concern for any defence nor have I seen any other teams saying we need to watch him cause he will punish us. I wouldn't criticise him for his performance in a final but to not see the simple pass outwide on several occasions which would have almost certainly seen us score does concern me a bit. I know he is young but to think back when Eastmond was 21 he was the best half back in Super League by a mile and this for me is the kind of level we need to look at. I really don't think he is the world class stand off most of you think. Watch him this year and keep a tally of how many tackles he ghosts through, how many one on one tackles he completes and how many times he slows down our attack as we swing it out wide. Gaskell's kicking game is his best asset which IMO isn't worth his place in a side looking to go all the way as it is inconsistent at best. I hope he proves me wrong though i'm sick of losing finals.

Not necessarily. If we played dazzling all year and then lost in another Grand Final that would probably be enough for us to extend. Despite my early criticisms (and those about our defence need to be answered quickly) he pulled the team together and got us to the Grand Final after beating the champions in consecutive games. That was a pretty good turnaround so he has some credit in the bank for me after that. Make another final and as long as we don't look like we've gone backwards I'd consider it. Early days though yet.

I'm by no means a Royce hater, and he did do well last year. But it's more about what the board deam as a good enough result.

I like Royce and think he did a very good job last year with the injuries etc but I'm not 100% convinced he's the coach to push on to be champions again.

Fair enough he got us to the grand final with a bad I jury crisis but out rugby at times was shocking. The was about 4/ games where foster saved us with his kicking.

I hope he gets a fair crack with injuries this year do we can see the real Royce and how we play.

Some of that at least will be because we were forever being messed about with injuries, so couldn't gel as a team, and we had so many inexperienced players on the pitch at one go on so many occasions. I'm surprised we landed third to be honest and I'd given up on the GF weeks before we got there!

I agree, that's the reason I wrote that I hope he has a good run with injuries so we can see how he'd have us play.

Like I said, I like him but still undecided on him at the moment.