I think Meli and Jones should be our centres next year. Turner can be back up centre or perhaps force his way onto the wing.

Bloomin' eck now we've got too many centres

I'd like to see something like:

2. Makinson
3. Meli
4. Jones
5. Turner

Negates Meli's weakness in dealing with the high ball and doesn't expose Turner defensively. Wing is a lot easier to positionally defend than centre.

Meli s great for me he does drop clangers but hey what about our fab Josh Perry now there is a problem player whats aplayer called on here a penalty machine for me he is underated.Folk dont like Foster nor Gardner nor makinson who do we like.Some players in a game do make errors they all do.Foster it seems is doing the business at Hull F C 2tries 7out of 9 goals.I say get Foster back.Hull must be doing something to help Foster that Saints where not doing

Something to ponder...

IF we get to the Grand final and IF we play Wigan, Meli would be up against Josh Charnley. Makinson would be up against Richards on the other side so I'd think that Meli would probably have a night off from being targeted by high bombs.

Just a thought....plenty of rugby to be played before that scenario could be played out.

You must be having a laugh; he scored two tries that anyone with two sound legs could have scored. Cant fault his kicking though.

I agree. He looked like his old self again.

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Amazing what a bit of trust will do rather than being made the scapegoat.

Absolutely.

As I've said on here before, believe in young people (who are keen and eager to please) and they are very likely to respond positively.

Is that the same 'trust' that Simmons put in him by playing him game-in, game-out despite him making an ever-increasing number of howlers game-in, game-out for the best part of a year? Foster wasn't dropped because he was scapegoated. He was dropped because he was consistently costing us 10-14 points a game every week - Simmons might still be in the job now otherwise, so how well was his 'trust' in Foster repaid? He was given more than enough opportunity to put it right and didn't and ultimately the coach had no option but to drop him. We would likely not be 3rd in the league if Rush had persevered with Foster and his persistent screw-ups the way Simmons did.

Makinson, Lomax and Hohaia have all struggled badly at times this season, yet they've all kept their places in the team. Foster struggles, and gets dumped into the reserves and farmed out. Gaskell struggles and is binned off, seemingly never to return.

I am not accusing anyone of anything, but there are definate smacks of double standards in Rush's selections.

Agreed. It was for his own good, it is no use watching a young lad with his confidence shot screaming at himself several times a game because of mistakes. He was clearly mentally gone, dropping and loaning him might even save his career.

The same thing happened away at Salford when he first came on the scene and Potter was coach, Potter hooked him and it turned out to be a good decision.

Lets hope after a good preseason he can kick on, gain a bit of size, impress Nathan Brown and force his way into the team.

Agree with it or not this is the coach's prerogative, some coaches take a liking to some players and just dont like others , it would seem Rush isnt keen on Gaskell or Foster.

Agreed.

Jeez you say some dumb things.