Yet we still beat the wire, come on give it a few days before you moan

Couple of times from Burns especially on the last play setting up Quinny for the break, can't recall anything from Walshy though.

Quinlan looks lost when we have the ball. He's basically inviasble until someone makes a break. I think the fact he's not played first grade this year and he won't know our players or our plays will take time to fit in.

He's took some great high kicks and his support play is top class but he's pretty awful at running the ball back on his kick returns.

I thought Burns played well on Thursday. His set up for Quinlan's break at the end was top class.
Even with Walsh, he had a bit of a nightmare but at least he's starting to get the confidence in his leg to start taking on the line again. I'm confident the partnership will come good. Whether that's this year or next, I'm not sure. But when it blossoms it will be beautiful!

I think I have heard that somewhere before, or words to that effect..

Burns was a very good player at KR for the majority of his stint, he could create things from nothing and was regularly putting in MoM performances, ironically his best performances were probably against Saints. His worst performances were after it was announced he was leaving, that maybe coincided with a big dip in team performances but Burns took the brunt og criticism.

His downside was his manner on the pitch, enthusiastic yes but he pilloried younger players for mistakes (even his own) and gave off the opinion of a disjointed camp. Rumour has it Chester wasn't sad to see him go. Not sure if that side of Travis has shown itself at Saints.

Either way, your lot don't seem to be doing too badly and we got ourselves a few quid and a couple of halves that if we get them on the pitch are (in our opinion) a lot better than we had so we all move on.

If anything Burns has been the leader on the field this season. Very vocal, ultra committed.

Our 6 and 7 situation is a concern for me. Even when both fit (Which looks unlikely to ever happen), neither are a threat to the line at all. This means they are very predictable and clubs can defend effectively against them.

Other clubs have direct pace/trickery in the halves or at hooker that we can't compete with. I'd love to see us bring in someone like Brierley.

Could have been a HKR man management problem, here at Saints we have got enough strong characters in the team and coaching staff to handle egoistic problems. As for Burns as a player, one of the first names on the team sheet for me, very competitive, niggly and likes to get totally involved whether he plays good or bad, you always need this type of player in your side to keep the team ticking over.
Sooner or later Walsh and Burns are going to click, when that happens I'm pretty confident we can dominate any side in Superleague, hopefully this will come in the play offs, we will have to wait and see.

It doesn't concern me as much. Travis is strong and as the half break for the winning try on Thursday showed, if you give him a gap he can punish you.
Aside from that, Burns showed a lot of nouse in the early games when we were without Walsh. I think we have two minor problems - 1) Walsh is still hit and miss and 2)Travis hasn't adjusted to Walsh's return.

For me, with Greenwood and Vea running in the second row channels and Percy and Turner in the centres, we can afford a lack of pace fromt he playmakers, especially if it means us bulking up on brainpower.

It shouldn't be as much as a concern when we have Roby and Quinlan as attacking options. We don't need to rely on fast pace in the halves, much better to have smart half backs, Walsh is an organiser and when he gets his timing back will pick out players with the right pass, Burns is an "off the cuff" unpredictable runner will quickly change direction and find a support player.

I sincerely hope you are right, but it's not always as simple as that.