Jeffries was named to play but was ruled out after failing a fitness test. Mcnamara is full of Sh*T. Jeffries has not trained all week and is still on one leg. Mcnamara should go drop himself.

I agree with the sentiments on how he drops Jeffries for form but leaves Deacon in.

However along the same lines, how does Semi get dropped but not Sheriffe?

Shirt?

Think the answer may be in the fact that we mentioned they were all carrying injuries. Suspect he has taken the easy way out and the 'dropping' is little more than spin.

I kind of hope so. Because if he honestly thinks Semi needed dropping more than Sheriffe, and that Jeffries needed dropping more than Deacon, we really need another coach.

Lets be honest. Koppy is a long way short of being a good prop and doesnt give any impact. If this spurs him on to better things then it can only be good for us.

Which team have you been watching?

Bar Lynchy, Koppy has been one of our best best props this season and has turned into a very decent player from his mediocre previous seasons.

Whilst he may have improved, very decent player he is not. For a man of his size he should be making way more ground than he does.

That's going a little far. Kopczak has been ok, but he's not been a patch on Lynch or Scruton and to a lesser extent, Burgess when he's been at prop.

The only thing I will say is that I don't expect him to be at that level right now. As long as he keeps improving and doing fairly well in the meantime, I'm ok with it. He's only young and only just got in the team regularly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McNamara

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McNamara

Whichever genius has written that needs to at least put their entry under the right heading.

What I don't get is why the need to put the 'they were dropped' spin into the mix?

If Jeffries and Semi were injured, then just say so and move on. Kopczak is a slightly different case as he is a young player establishing himself at first team level and was probably due a rest anyway - there's certainly no shame in that, given his improvement this year.

Trying to spin it to make out that they've all been training like demons this week - which would appear to certainly not be the case with Jeffries, as he is likely to be still injured for this weekend - is baffling

Is it to somehow bolster this idea of a united squad, who are all totally 100% behind the coaching team?