Mason has actually done better than I thought he would but then he's hardly been ripping up trees and would definitely be no great loss (to KR, to SL or to RL in general).

Think he might be a good crowd puller for the first few games at any smaller club, but yeah i aggree with you, dont think he is that big a loss to the sport.

The club need to pull that extra money out again, and find someone that can tighten our leaky defence out wide.

I don't think one man can sort out all our defensive problems. The line speed is just way too slow. We have plenty of good individual tacklers (Nero, Godwin, Adamson, Wild amongst others) but they are having too much to do because the opposition have too much time and momentum. Also there are a few individual things in terms of positioning, e.g Gibson when Atkins made the break to set up a try in the 2nd half.

These could all be sorted out with coaching.....

Agreed. You don't get to SL level if you can't make a tackle.

What wins/loses games is defensive patterns and that comes from good organisation and coaching.