Quote: Fantastic Mr Catpiss "Do they? How come theyve signed bodene thompson as a 'middle' ?
Leeds have struggled to replace peacock since his retirement, singleton was an ok bench prop, they've kept on with cuthbertson way past his best, garbutt was good but injured a lot, they brought Merrin over, an international backrow and played him at prop.
Theyve done alright with prior this year buy he's a workhorse tackler more than a go forward prop.
As I've said a few weeks back, prop/middle is a massive recruitment struggle for all teams'"
Just to bring this back up, if you have a look around the boards, still some stress regarding props, leeds obviously have brought tetavano in on a wedge, but they've also followed that up with signing an absolute nobody.
Wakefield fans are still scrabbling about thinking they're a prop or 2 short and hoping that battye becomes available.
And wigan fans are doing their nut that they've still got clubb, clark and burgess, and not got much firepower up front at all., as i said a while back it seems to be a very difficult position to recruit (well) in, almost as difficult has halfback.
Whilst the 2 we've brought in aren't international world beaters, we may have done some smart business, just in being able to get them in.