Because he could have passed out side to Kear on a numbe of occasions but didn't. Maybe he wasn't comfortablet passing from left to right. I did think he looked strong though and tackled hard. Looks very dangerous attacking ahigh kick, hopefully we can utilise this unlie last year with Ah Van. One if the best wingers attacking a high kick to the corner and we never used it

I don;t tihnk Purtell is a natural centre and this will become clear when Lulia starts playing. It's been so long since we've had a proper centre we've forgotton what one looks like. Nero, Sykes, Platt, Whitehead.

Kearney needs dropping.

How can we drop him? He's reet proper bo remember. I totally agree with you, his defensive play is utterly bab. Thing that makes me laugh is people having a dig at Sykes when they think this guy is the next messiah.

Defnsively he's not the strongest. Although we could have Radlinski at full back and it wouldn't make much difference with our defence. If a you have a player who has walked through the defence with ease, has support either side of him and we don't have a player in side, it's difficult to defende against. Defensively Kearneys not great. But dropping him would be stupid. The guy scored some superb tries last year, Saints, Cas anyone? Not many players in the team can do that. The other 12 players need to learn how to tackle infront of him

He's not even that great on attack, ball return is mediocre and rarley puts a play on. Kear is a much better FB.

Kearney couldn't tackle a hot dinner

Be realistic, Kearney isn't going to get dropped.

But he'll probably get an injury at some stage and I'd like to see Kear given a run at full back in that eventuality

1. Kearney
2. Purtell
3. Lulia
4. Walker
5. Kear
6. Sammut
7. Gale
8. Scruton
9. L'Estrange
10. Kopzac
11. Langley
12. Whitehead
13. Donaldson

14. Diskin
15. Hargreaves
16. Burgess
17. Joseph

And here lies half the problem. Complacency sets in because we have too many players who look like they know they are un-droppable:-

-Kearney
-Scruton
-Hargreaves
-Langley

THey are all senior members of the team who are driving the culture of the team / club

or we could go with.

1. Kear
2. Ainscough
3. Purtell
4. Lulia
5. Crookes
6. Kearney
7. Gale
8. Langley
9. L'Estrange
10. Kopczak
11. Whitehead
12. Donaldson
13. Addy

14. Diskin
15. Burgess
16. Joseph
17. Hargreaves/Scruton/Ball

BB2011 I realise that your final 17 is a bit tongue in cheek though Kear does look a more all round full back than Kearney, but is Ball ready? much as I would like to see him in action, if hes only going to play 15 minutes that would not be worth it from the teams perspective.

I know Ball probably isn't ready I put him in as a joke

Is Sykes injured or dropped?

So the report in today's T&A article suggests Lulia and Pryce STILL won't be fit for the Cas game.
How can Lulia go from hoping to pass a last minute fitness test for the Catalns game last Friday, to still being unavailable for a game 10 days later?
Someone at the club is telling us a few porkies here.