As I said a few months ago I think, Gidley and Sandow should work in the halves. Gidley will do all the hard work in both attack and defence, and Sandow will look for opportunities to pull off some match winning plays.
It probably works for both of them. Gidley really isn't that good at making try scoring opportunities, while that's about all Sandow is good at.

considering making try scoring opportunities is what we were terrible at last year, i'll take it.

"making try scoring opportunities, while that's about all Sandow is good at"

What a strange thing to write. Roopy ... I'm beginning to question your knowledge of the game.

The Fa'afili argument in full flow again, 'all he's good at is scoring tries'

I hope you don't get to see how Sandow goes on his own.
He'll be gassed after 30 minutes, miss 12 tackles, and won't have the energy to run when an opportunity comes.

I'm not hating on Sandow - or Gidley - they both are what they are. Gidley is a workhorse who isn't much of a playmaker, and Sandow is a good playmaker who doesn't have much of a motor.

I think Sandow also gives us a very good kicking game, that along with the creativity and 'spark' are probably what we've missed most over the past two years post Briers.

Haven't really noticed a problem with his 'engine', either at Leeds when we got through a lot of defense, or at the back end of last season when he came over.

You have to remember this is SL and not the NRL Roopy. Most of our players work down the pits on game day morning, then kit up and get on the 'field' for the afternoon game. At Leigh the supporters have to help put up the posts before the match begins as their ground is shared with a professional girls handball club. At Wigan they need to take the cars of the pitch and smooth out the mud before a game. We are really just a league of semi-professionals over here. For instance, we are not very much into tackling. We prefer high scoring games with players whizzing through defences and lots of tries. Most games finish with scores like 54-46 and are played at 3.00am in the morning to fit in with the Sky TV programmes.
But anyway, I digress, what I was going to say was that Most Australians that come over here are either over 38 or have been convicted of a string of homicides. So you see we are quite happy with crappy old Gidley, even if he can barely pass the ball. And Sandow directing traffic rather than tackling the man is a shoe-in for us - providing he can kick for touch and accidentally put the ball into Currie's hands for a match winning try. We will struggle on with what we've got.

You're doing exactly that, and your arguments fly in the face of what we've seen from both of them thus far.

According to the Leeds stats, Sandow made 15 tackles and missed 1. We had worse than that with Briers in his early days.....he wasnt too shabby!

More than happy with Sandow now as he looks fit and enjoying his game also doing what was needed in defence, Sandow and Gidley as new halves will only get better.