Andre Savelio
Get yourself to McDonalds - he was unstoppable last year in his few cameo appearances. He must've lost 2 stone now , average gain only 5m

He looks like a player who is a year behind in his development. I'm undecided as to whether two or three months outside of the first team will do him greater harm than good. Physically he's fine. Whether he's a stone or two under weight is mitigated by the fact that he's STILL physically imposing as things stand. Looking at him and considering his unusual circumstances I think he desperately needs a serious injection of confidence. Two or three good games will do him more good than three weeks hammering the weights. I don't think Saints want to loan him out. And he's not likely to gain any greater comfort from a return to the juniors and a competition he already knows he has the better of.

I really don't see any other option than continuing to give him limited game time, especially as we currently have an abundance of size in the pack. Should we pick up a lot of injuries in the forwards perhaps it would be better to leave him out for a few weeks.

And yet Andre Savelio still averages more metres per carry than Ben Flower did all last season, whom according to our dimwitted neighbours over the Lump, is one of the best props in the competition (cue laughter).

Savelio has just turned 20 years old. Greg Richards is still 19. The standards they are playing at, in a position like prop, is simply brilliant. How anyone can complain about either is ridiculous.

Flower's a great prop, excluding the time he decided to go full retard.

Sav and Richards are good young players, of course, but as you say, prop isn't a young mans game. I don't see the harm in looking out for another senior prop (something that we all said we needed in the offseason).

He can't go back to playing juniors now, he's too old.