Let's be honest though, that's always been Sammut. He'll either practically win you the game on his own, or practically lose you the game on his own. Never a shade of grey with Jarrod, he was brilliant or awful.

Was that the game where he dropped a goal when his team were losing by 6 points

He's since admitted that he lost count of the score and he thought they were level at the time

To those who disingenuously ask whether I'd like someone like Siejka for the sake of it, there's no decent scrum halves available and all the rest of the defeatist claptrap, I say this:

Name ANY other club in SL, NRL, Championship, Championship 1 or even the French league which plays all season with no recognized scrum half.

Don't ask me who there is available, or whom we should sign, or whatever, EVERY CLUB IN THE WORLD has a scrum half, except us, and it isn't my job to find one or sign one. Advancing the pathetic and weak case on behalf of the management that "Well, there's nobody about" doesn't therefore wash - we've been in this mess for about a century now, it's not a problem that happened today. Every other club copes with this incredibly difficult concept, we need to stop making absurd excuses and sort it out, now. Or, frankly, pack the season in.

LOl - I have nothing against Wakefield. For what it's worth my dad came from there [Lupset and supported them as a kid, so why should I?

IIf you can't see the irony in finishing bottom and holding a celebration, well fine, you don't have to if you don't want, it isn't compulsory.....and incidentally, [iyou're[/i the one who mentioned late recruitment, not me. In any case, as you say, since we recruited too, there would have been little point. Personally, I've filed last year as one to be largely forgotten - maybe you should do the same and give up thinking of posts bemoaning the system as being complaints against Wakey?

Agree, need someone sooner rather than later, i do expect us to panic and some someone e just for the sake of it if im honest.

Its not just about the organising/leading around the park that's missing... Has anyone else noticed that our support play is fairly poor once we have made a break? Gaskell was pretty much the only person who was in support of every break at the weekend. Brierley is that sort of instinct player who is in support majority of the time, like most natural 6's or 7's!

Having instinctive support players create a lot more opportunities and more importantly- try's!

I'm not suggesting Brierley is our target but just highlighting another aspect that is missing from our side and helping us achieve promotion.

Brierley is off to Hudders.

TBF to Sammut Workington lost by 40 odd at Batley which probably means the Batley pack got on a roll, a problem that would mean most s/h will struggle in that game

Also in my opinion neither Sammut or Brierley are perfect solutions but one thing they will give us is a threat to worry the opposition, something we currently lack big time when Gaskill is marked out of the game

yeah I have seen that... my point was more on the instinctive support play by half backs which is another area we lack.

I'm certain there are people about. It doesn't mean they will improve the side and if they won't then why sign them.

I'll be as disappointed as anyone if we play the full season without a scrum half but equally I'm glad Jimmy or Steve have learned from the Siejka mistake. We did bring a half in on trial and he wasn't deemed good enough, should we have signed him up simply because he was the best of a bad bunch?

I think there's a difference between being defeatist and being a realist.