Quote ="wire 74"Because he isn't a Centre and with Gleeson going we will now be short of 2 centres,It has now been proved imo that King is a winger and imo Johnson should be in the 2nd row Grix is a squad player or should be just a stand in loose fwd or even play in place of Vinnie Anderson who imo is very underwhelming .
If we have the cash and the room in the cap I would like to see Atkins and Shenton come in A.S.A.P we will need them both before next friday imo .please Simon and Tony
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Padders ranting tastic.
I like Atkins, but he's pledged his future to Wakefield. I'm starting to find him a bit one dimensional when I watch him too, he's strong as an ox, but you get a fair amount of joy out of him defensively. We've got our own centre that struggles with side of his game.
Shenton, I'd love, but I just don't think he'll leave there, I really don't. There's not many decent centres about, hence why Saints have Gilmour filling in, Nero, Baile, Bailey, Ablett, Clubb, Raguin last year etc. There's more & more backrowers playing centre, I think because of the lack of centres kicking about, and the physicality of our backrowers, they can do both roles.
We've got lots of options at centre right now, Grix, King, PJ, Anderson, Bridge, Blythe (at a push), Reardon once fit, Hicks (at a push)
I'm not sure realisitically who'll be available, that's obviously the biggest problem, I'd be happy at the the end of the year if we picked up say Craig Hall, Cudjoe & Lee Smith, something like that, 3 young, exciting english backs. Maybe Goulding too.
