I think what would benefit us just as much as Dobson ,who is a very good SL standard half back ,would be a few more hours on the training field each week brushing up on basic handling skills & for the coaches to bin the modern obsession with the flat attack which accounts for many handling errors. The team are coughing up too much cheap possession to opponents who are only too grateful to cash in on it ,& although it is the way we play ,trying to score off every move, i feel a more structured & composed approach would help at this time of top class player shortage.

Agree with this, so many times this year we have been near the oppo try line and fluffed it completely!

I've got to agree with you Paullie and think that Dobson would do a good job for us and if he's available for half a season then what's to lose? RD's love affair with Bridge at 6 and constant calls for a new prop on any discussion are a bit of a red herring on this issue IMO. Will he improve us? I think he will. Is he available? If yes then try and get him.

We are down to the bare bones in the pack, but, when Wood, Grix Westwood return Harrison has some game time and Roy gets over his homesickness then we will be alright. Are there any decent props out there anyway?

Although Bridge is doing a good job in the halves, & i have always been one of his biggest fans, i think he is even better at centre but i can honestly see his time at half back being interrupted by one of his periodic injuries that he is prone to. It would be even more disruptive to have Bridge there long term & build a game round him only for injury to pull the rug from under the plan.

Michael Dobson is absolute quality and would be a perfect signing for us. The interesting thing would be who would partner him if we did sign him, Myler? And Ratchford at centre? Or would we give Myler a go at hooker where Smith has tried him a couple of times

Dobson's a good player and would bring a certain order to our play. Each time he's changed clubs (or been rumoured to change clubs), he has been accorded a Messiah status that goes beyond how good he really is, but he would certainly be a useful addition.

There are areas across the park where we can improve. We scored some great tries on Friday night, but in our games against the good sides this year we haven't packed the same threat with tries from distance. The halfbacks can create those, but I would have thought we needed pace and evasion in the centres and on the wing to do that. All of the players we have in our three-quarter line have it in their armoury, but we haven't seen enough of it.

We do need a prop too, on that RD is right. We take the ball forward well and make decent metres, but we can be soft around the ruck at times. And in the softening-up period early in the game, you'd love to see a Morley or a Nutley tearing into his opposite number. We're way too nice when Westwood isn't playing.

The issue in the prop department is the ones that have been brought in are absolute pants.

We lost carvell, morley and cooper and replaced them with Anthony England and Judith Chalmers.

IMO The coaching staff and board need to have a good long think about the starting 13 initially, the rest of the squad shortly after.

Its pointless to bring Dobson in (if that rumour is to be believed) and keep 3 or 4 'starting' backs in the squad.

I have watched most games this season i dont think we have been outplayed up front at all. Especially when we get wood and Westwood and grix back then i think the pack will be fine. We are making yards and defending ok down the middle. I think that we are in need of a general to organise and marshall the pack around the field. Dobson can do that and kick as well.

Roy Atrocity, better than Roy the Tinman toolbag

Where did you hear this?

It is interesting that knights are chasing a prop forward before the end of June deadline. They maybe looking to unload one of their plentiful halfbacks to create space in their cap.

i've heard its a swap deal, asotasi for dobson.

Ruddy he'll. Arn't we under it enough up front. As poor as Asotasi is, he is currently the 2nd best fit prop we have.

That last line is so disheartening.

You may or may, not be correct about our need for a prop, will England come good will Asatosi get his finger out but, why do you insist upon linking this thread and most others to that notion and the canvassing of Bridge to remain at 6?

Yes I get the fact that Bridge is a 'big' lad and together with Ratchford might provide some resistance behind a below par pack, good point well made, but, to keep on repeating it is boring and I think you think that no one 'gets it'?