On the plus side guys!

Solo should be back next wknd!

That will provide a few tries & half breaks make no mistake!

Hopefully he's been out of the pie shop and in the gym!!

Good news if he does return on the weekend.

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I thought you were talking about Solo? obviously not

It will be good to see some more big units back on deck to create room for Deacs to play off the back of.

Depends if Sol is just expected to be taking the ball up on the first or second tackle or if he's given it when we get a bit closer to the line out a bit wider (why when ever sol comes up do words like wider seem so natural ) where he can cause havoc, for us on occasion as well but that's the kind of player he is.

According to the bulls website Solo will not be fit to play this weekend

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Oh good, Worrincy gets to play again. I'm very happy about that.



Ok, I lie....


The only real positive about this for me is that Cook will continue to get more game time, as he seems to be constantly improving after getting a more regular place in the side.

What has Worrincey done wrong to deserve any grief? He has hardly had any game time so its a little unfair to judge.
Morrison is a huge gap to fill though.

Worrincy is my dark horse for 2009. Which if he follows in Neros footsteps as my pick for 2008 means he will be disappointing this year and good in 2010 You read it here first

Although I appreciate he hasn't had a great deal of time to prove me otherwise yet, I'm yet to see anything from him worthy of a place in the side.

I do appreciate he hasn't had much time at the club yet, which is why I'm not slating too much to the point where I out and out don't believe we should ever pick him (like Tupou).

However I was gutted with the signing in the first place (and said so on here) as I've always thought of him as rubbish. I'm yet to see anything to prove otherwise and there was one moment in the Cas game where he ran around like a headless chicken before getting penalised for a blatant flop, which seemed to confirm what I already thought.

Although I do think he hasn't had enough time to prove me wrong yet (and I still hope he does), I'd still rather other players were picked before him until I see something warranting a place in the side.

So don't pick him until he warrants a place - how does he do that if he's only playing against kids. I saw Worricey play for Quins last year and he was scoring tries for fun in the summer - just you watch this space he is quality. IMO a shrewd buy by Macca, much better than last year's crop of signings

I think the general idea with us over the years has been to buy the unfinished raw material, not being able to afford the finished article, and then train/condition/coach it hopefully into much more than the original purchase. It does take time though. But we do have a very long tradition of successfully doing this - though naturally by no means all such buys pay off, it has like most things plenty of risk.

Worrincy's obvious strength is his pace for a forward, he will need a lot of coaching to improve from where he was, but I for one am prepared to give him a season or so to await developments as he is young and the potential is surely there.

Imagine if he ended up doing a similar job for us as did Paul Medley!

Worrincy is apparently a "special project" and a "work in progress". I reckon we should judge a year from now. By then we'll be more able to tell whether he's worth the effort or whether that would've been better spent on the academy lads.