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| Quote: sally cinnamon "A theme of last year on here was how we had a beaten pack, needed some biff etc.
What do you think about it at this point?
For me, the pack is the main reason I have got limited expectations about this season, particularly the thin-looking front row.
From last year's struggling pack we have moved on Sims, Savelio, Julien, Westerman and Dwyer.
Adding BMM plus Currie coming back from injury gives us a stronger looking back row.
What's the front row going to be? Hill and Cooper with Crosby and Akauola coming off the bench? A few question marks there.
Overall I think we are 2 top class forwards away from being able to go in to the season with confidence that we can be competing in the top four.'"
On this basis it's yes, our pack is good enough. We competed in the top four and made the Challenge cup final.
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| Quote: rubber duckie "I think he read this one.'"
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He’s world class for England when he doesn’t feel the need to lead by being the one who can speak to the ref while his adrenaline makes that 80 minutes of moaning.
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| The pack is good enough, although I can see why the thread was started given Coops & Hughes 2017 seasons, I’m glad we have another recognised 9 in the squad, adds balance.
I’ll take some convincing that Tasi is good enough to be our 4th prop, so that’s probably where we need to look to next. Would be good if we had 2 or 3 under 21’s coming through adding depth, we could then potentially pool Tasi & Sita’s salary to bring in a better interchange prop.
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| Quote: Alffi_7 "The pack is good enough, although I can see why the thread was started given Coops & Hughes 2017 seasons, I’m glad we have another recognised 9 in the squad, adds balance.
I’ll take some convincing that Tasi is good enough to be our 4th prop, so that’s probably where we need to look to next. Would be good if we had 2 or 3 under 21’s coming through adding depth, we could then potentially pool Tasi & Sita’s salary to bring in a better interchange prop.'"
Tasi is a step up from George King however on the very last of their form King was better.
Given on option of King or Sita...I'd have kept King in a heartbeat.
Sita has by and large escaped too much bagging because of his injuries...I'll be watching him in 2019 however he like all gets a clean slate.
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| Quote: rubber duckie "Good grief..
Miles off!'"
What? There was a lot wrong in 2017 and it will take time to fix it. 2018 was a good year but we were as far away from winning the GF as we had ever been in the last 8 years.
I would be careful dredging up old predictions as those in glass houses....
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| Bit of fun 71.
All the best.
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| Many posts weren't far off here.
Was Price is blinkered?
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| Actually on a different tangent having re-read this thread,(and this might put the cat amongst the pigeons) are we missing tyrone?
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| Depends what the question is, "good enough" for what? If competitive to make the play offs and the challenge cup semi final, then yes.
If "good enough" to win a GF and the challenge cup final, then no.
Still all to play for, but there's room for a lot of improvement of late.
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| How late can we leave this improvement though? It's definitely there but in 2017 we left it until the middle 8s!
I'd love to think we covering our hand but it's plainly obvious we aren't.
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| Who knows, it may never happen.
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| Quote: rubber duckie "Many posts weren't far off here.
Was Price is blinkered?'"
We'll never know. There could have been a real good prop or two who didn't want to come, or a second row with size pace to burn.
What you want to buy is never always immediately available.
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| Quote: Fantastic Mr Catpiss "Actually on a different tangent having re-read this thread,(and this might put the cat amongst the pigeons) are we missing tyrone?'"
McCarthy, Roberts or Dodds?
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| Your Weatherfield knowledge is sadly lacking, UR.
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| Quote: MorePlaymakersNeeded "Your Weatherfield knowledge is sadly lacking, UR.'"
I wish mine was.
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