How did they do?

I thought Lomax had a bit of a nightmare when he was on the field. Eastmond did ok, made a decent break and Emmitt didn't do anything wrong.

Lomax was terrible. He disappeared at some point during the first half I think, never to be seen again! Eastmond reverted back to making some ridiculous passes (but then in that he was just following his peers) but he did at least make a break for the line even if he was caught in the end. Emmitt did ok. Nothing spectacular, but I wouldn't expect that yet. He's only played at first grade a couple of times and the poor lad was subbing for James Graham!

Boy did we miss James Graham tonight. And Paul Wellens.

Lomax needs to mature. He is not yet physically ready imo. Eastmond does not have a position, Potter just chucks him on anywhere. Emmit will never make it as a SL pro.

Jeez you guys are unbelievable!

Lomax could still be playing Junior Academy and you are slagging him off. You have a backrower in Ashurst who has played almost a full season at 19 and the other kids are in similar situations.

The problem you have had this year is that occasionally you have had a few injuries to your older players and have perhaps had to run with a few too many novices.

What would you rather do - bring in a couple of Aussies for a season or two or develop the best Youth system in RL?

In my (humble) opinion Lomax, Ashurst and Wheeler will be your next Wellens, Wilkin and Pryce.... but you could always let them go and sign Stacey Jones for a season!!!!!

Is right

How did the experienced players go ?

On the whole, they were shown up by the young players.

I thought Lomax started off poor but then got better once he had settled.

He made 3 errors but two of them i would attribute to awful passes.
One was an absolute death ball that had him staggering around the pitch while Cats went 80 yards downfield to score.

Once settled however i thought he was pretty solid. Certainly got the pace to trouble defences and his positional play for kicks was good.

Eastmond looked like he wasnt sure what his role was. Not surprising when Long and Pryce in the halves and Lomax at fullback.
Once Lomax went off for the 2nd half with a knock, and Eastmond went fullback he looked a lot more assured of his role, and made one 60 yard break .

I would certainly play Eastmond at fullback next week if Wello is injured.

So would I. Except for a few of his hospital passes (He doesn't seem to have any mid range, does he? Either he does amazing things with the ball or really dud efforts!), I thought he did fine at fullback. We need his strong boot and speed, that's for sure!