I keep waiting for you to finish your sentence...

Totally agree there pal

Totally and whole heartedly agree with the above post! How can anyone criticise andy lynch is beyond me. He is the biggest professional going so dedicated and he carried bulls through the bad times. His talent is there for all to see, none of the bulls props can even be compared to lynch in the same sentence as he is head and shoulders above them. His work rate, game time, offloads the whole works he is always driving to the try line. He has been getting slated on the t&a with one person Saying he wouldn't bust a brown paper bag. Well that just bemused me as they clearly know nothing a about rugby league and havnt been watching bulls games where andy is a class apart from most members of the team. Rant over!

Not sure what brought about this idea of comparing the props.

They are all different and mostly all at different stages of their careers, some have lots of experience and some are full of promise and they all have their own attributes which complement each other.

For sure, it would be nice if we had a real bone shaker (though it does look as though that position might be filled from within, in the near future) and if we're honest none is (right now) really showing international class BUT as a group within the squad, I'm reasonably happy with what we've got, however the coach divvies up the game time.

Your post is somewhat negated by the fact that Burgess didn't even play at Catalans - so his only 'tragic' bit was not being on the field.

The reality is that if someone has said to Burgess at the beginning of this season that he'd make 10 first team appearances this season he'd have been delighted. Yet, assuming he plays against Quins, he reach this mark on Saturday

Does he get let out early for good behaviour?

I stand corrected. Yes he didn't play against catalans but he was poor in most other games bar the Salford one. I'm sick of people bigging him up, he has filled a gap and helped bulls out when we had injuries but isn't superleague standard yet. For all those saying he is better than Hargreaves, lynch, scruton and koppy.....I think they need to wake up and smell the coffee!!

Yes, that would be a good point.


Hmm. Other than (presumably) you're not "another player", it's OK for you to do it, though?

hopefully not.

Erm please read 1st page of this thread and put your specs on!


paulwalker71 wrote:Is there some sort of conspiracy here to 'big up' Tom Burgess?

I agree that Hargreaves needs to up his game, but we've got about three threads now that seem to be all about getting Burgess to stay in the team

I admire that your sticking up for Lynch, as i also think he is a good player, although, i can't quite recall anyone stating that Koppy and Burgess were better than Lynch. As stated elsewhere, they are different types of props and i like what the 2 subs are doing at the moment.

Tom has been getting better every week. And Koppy has been improving for about a year now. Over the next year i expect them both to be even better.

I think the majority of people are happy with Lynch this year, that said, there's nothing wrong with crediting other players, especially as their improvement seems to greater than what most would have expected.

I'm pretty happy with our forward pack (including Bryn + Scrutes ) and the competition is going to be great for the club.