"To kick a goal from half way... well that is a big kick," Brown said. "Our number one kicker Jonny Lomax isn't kicking because of a hamstring injury so we took the chance to put it into touch. When it's there you have a good chance of scoring or setting up for a field goal. Miss the kick and you might not even get the ball back. We took the safest option with what we are working with at the moment.

"It has been a tough season and we effectively began to rebuild the squad during the season. We have made some big changes. For a long time at this club Francis Meli was on the wing with Ade Gardner and Paul Wellens at full back. We now have two young wingers and Jonny Lomax back there. That has added speed.

Jon Wilkin has played half which will change next year. The culture of the club is terrific and its effort and commitment is sensational.

"The youth system has provided the path to make the rebuild quite quick too. We haven't achieved what we would have liked, but we have achieved in moving forward."

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Some telling comments there from Brown. So he obviously though we where going to be ok with the team until halfway through the season. So makes a bit more sense with the chopping and changing. I would have thought pre-season would show where we where. But obviously he could not tell a lot from our pre-season and so had to change midway through.

I'm a little concerned about Wilkin not playing half next year. That would suggest Lance will. Whilst last week he was good, this week he was back to his suffling best, squeezing out the spaces on the edges and getting caught in several minds with the ball in hand and running into dead ends.

His tackling and effort are not to be doubted and it was a great ball steal. But he does seem to not know what to do with the ball unless he is squeezing out the space for the centre and winger on the edges.

Looks like the back 3 are nailed on, so the question over Meli's centre spot remains an unknown this next year.

"To kick a goal from half way... well that is a big kick," Brown said. "Our number one kicker Jonny Lomax isn't kicking because of a hamstring injury so we took the chance to put it into touch. When it's there you have a good chance of scoring or setting up for a field goal. Miss the kick and you might not even get the ball back. We took the safest option with what we are working with at the moment.

"It has been a tough season and we effectively began to rebuild the squad during the season. We have made some big changes. For a long time at this club Francis Meli was on the wing with Ade Gardner and Paul Wellens at full back. We now have two young wingers and Jonny Lomax back there. That has added speed.

Jon Wilkin has played half which will change next year. The culture of the club is terrific and its effort and commitment is sensational.

"The youth system has provided the path to make the rebuild quite quick too. We haven't achieved what we would have liked, but we have achieved in moving forward."

www.saintsrlfc.com/news/page/3378



Some telling comments there from Brown. So he obviously though we where going to be ok with the team until halfway through the season. So makes a bit more sense with the chopping and changing. I would have thought pre-season would show where we where. But obviously he could not tell a lot from our pre-season and so had to change midway through.

I'm a little concerned about Wilkin not playing half next year. That would suggest Lance will. Whilst last week he was good, this week he was back to his suffling best, squeezing out the spaces on the edges and getting caught in several minds with the ball in hand and running into dead ends.

His tackling and effort are not to be doubted and it was a great ball steal. But he does seem to not know what to do with the ball unless he is squeezing out the space for the centre and winger on the edges.

Looks like the back 3 are nailed on, so the question over Meli's centre spot remains an unknown this next year.