He's not going to win any 100 metre sprints but he has a decent turn of pace and he always seems to make the right pass at the right time.

Never good enough for SL but you may be right on most skillful FB in this league although IMO he is probably not even in the top 3 FB's in this league. Rowley was still chasing Fieldhouse till a few weeks before his injury FWIW.

As for Beswick he is very good at what he does but I do not really rate him and never did when he was at Fax but thats probably down to my preference in hookers. I always preferred Penky and given one of my favourite Halifax players was Rowley I do prefer the more 'explosive' hookers to steady eddies.

Bob Beswick every time for me.

Guess that's why Paul is the coach !

Agreed. I always thought last year's plan to start with Bob who'd set up the game plan, lead the pack, and settle the game going, then swap him with the unpredictable Penky would really throw teams and alow us to score a few trys while the opposition were still adapting to the completely different game plan.