Unfortunately for Marc, a lot of the fans expectation is laid on his shoulders. I think he has shown some glimpses of what he can do but hasn't really found any consistent form so far. What we need is a general, someone who can organise the team and take control of a game. I seem to remember Mr Millward writing in his column pre season that a weakness in Herbert was that he is too quiet on the pitch.

I do think some of the criticism of Herbert has been OTT but he does need to improve a fair bit before we consider extending our agreement. At the moment he is the best we have got, so I'll continue to get behind the young lad. He'd look x10 the player with his fellow players running some decent lines to give him more pass options.

When is Langley due back anyway? The club seem a bit quiet on that.

Two weeks time I read today..

Slightly off-topic, but I think Marc Herbert's hair cut is becoming one of the most annoying things about our present malaise. My wife says you could tell he'd be no good just looking at that floppy fringe and up until yesterday I'd disagreed strongly, wanting to believe in the equality of male grooming. However, after every mistake I'd look at him and think, 'yes, it's that bloody haircut'. Do you think Deacs could pop back and give him a number one all over (in the politest sense of that term)

No half back can have an impact unless there is go forward and the opposition is on the back foot. The problem is NOT the attack. The problem is the DEFENCE !!!!
if you take into account the fact he has created 12 try assists and scored 3 tries in 10 games means he is good for almost 2 try's a game. How many points do you expect him to score !!
Oh - that's right he has to score / create more than an aveage of 32 points a game to get us over the line !!

He probably doesn't have enough energy to beat the opposition by himself after he does more than 20 tackles a match.

Lets have a good look at the defence and the go forward then we might be giving the halfback some chance to show what he has got.

Last year the North Queensland Cowboys ran last with the best halfback in the world - in the off season they sacked most of the forwards ( including Mason ) and got some real workers. This year they are top 4 - says it all really

Being without Scruton, Langley and now Elima isn't going to help our defence in the forwards