Ashton is poetically the most exciting young fullback in the game. Thought that Jack Walker, but injuries really restricted that. If okay him as first choice FB as Ratchford not getting any younger age Wire need to look forward or it will never be 'your year'!!

This however is the “best post of the year”.
I love the idea of a poetically exciting fullback. Maybe it was the strength of his Haiku that nailed down the fullback berth. Did Ratchford’s iambic pentameter let him down on the Captain’s run? I demand answers.

there once was a fullback from leeds...

He didn't happen to swallow a packet of seeds, did he?

He replaced Ben Ikin who had struggled with injuries. Ben was previously State Of Origin standard though.

Ben Ikin retired early in 2004.

“If only he had been called Dallas Meads”

Byron was actually one of Cumbria’s most promising young poets-cum-RL props until he failed a drug test. True story. He laments it in prose in one of his later works

Ashton had a bit of a Jarvis on Saturday but so did head high shot sarginson difference being sarginson had 12 players on the pitch that played the conditions a bit better than ours..I'd go as far as say were a tadge more determined than ours...now that we are in October(monsoon season)do we chuck Ashton in the stands put ratchford fb and move Austin from loose to partner widdop.

Ashton has shown enough in his short time with us to have given our head coach a real dilemma in selection for a big game in horrible conditions at the weekend. In hindsight he may have made a different decision, certainly on starting matty, but we don't live in hindsight and I for one was happy with the team selection at the start of the match so I'm not going to complain in hindsight. Ultimately we didn't know how Ashton would perform in those conditions and in the biggest match of his young career so far, he needs these experiences to learn and grow.

Luke gale said in his after match interview on Saturday that he played differently on this occasion after not being able to effectively play the Conditions in the grand final a few years back. I hope matty takes stock of that and grows from this experience like Luke Gale has. He has raw pace and raw talent and its important now to stick with him and allow him to develop and learn from experiences. I'd still think we should be looking to tie him down to a long term contract given what he has shown us so far.

I always thought Gerard Manley Hopkins had a big future as a full back, he did that swivel of the hips move that deceived many an on rushing tackler.

Don’t get me started on how deceptive Oscar Wilde could be.

saturdays game was crying out for forwards, ratch at 13 was weird, ratch's substitution was weird, not bring Jace on till late in the second half was weird.

Saturday was not a day to experiment, or try and be fancy, it wasn't a day for pace. We should have gone with what we know works, and commited to the grind.



As captain hook has said elsewhere though, there's a severe knee jerk occuring though, we've been very very good since the restart, and all its took is one defeat (i'm not counting midweek) for everyone to time jump back to september last year.

Ashton needs to learn his lesson, and austin needs a rollocking for those stupid miracle balls he's never thrown EVER before.

We move on, and see how we bounce back v the pies, whats the forecase like this week?

Yep! Big, bearded, bonking, butch Oscar. The terror of the ladies. 114 illegitimate children, world heavyweight boxing champion and author of the best-selling pamphlet "Why I Like To Do It With Girls." And Massingbird had him sent down for being a whoopsie

Weather forecast looking good for Friday NO RAIN! 9 degrees and relatively light wind. As we all know though Leeds can have 4 seasons in one day autumn, winter, mid winter and winter.

And they're all in 1956