We are in the rain
we are in the rain
it a horrible feeling, but
we're in the rain!

This is a problem now IMO,Grixy is excellent on kick returns and is a good broken field runner,but as a FB in SL it's obvious you have got to be able to join the line as a second 5/8th or else overlaps aren't going to be be created.This is what Bodgy did last year,arcing around to the outside of the halves,but then most importantly when he got the ball he had the confidence to throw the flat pass to the outside backs.Grixy tends to step back inside when he does move into '2nd 5/8th',takes the tackle and they have to set up again.

Hope this is summat they can fix up.

Hodgson plays as an extra half back and took pressure off the other halves as he offered threat with ball in hand and with his kicking game. However i would say he is quite unique among full backs and i cannot think of another similar player in super league. Grix IMO is more than competant as a full back and offers more than the majority of players in his position.

I fully agree with this- hodgy is unique, grixy has proved more than competent at fb, one of the players said last year when we had brough, robbo, brown and hodgy sometimes they had too many trying to make playmaking decisions and not enough ready to run onto the ball. The club (not Ken!) thought that keeping hodgson may be a gamble injury wise, it turns out that wasn't the case, hey oh, but I don't think patten would have done a better job than grixy.

Grix is our only player who constantly and consistently backs up.

It is invariably him who takes the Fuey pass. It is him who chases downfield following a [rare] break [his try v HKR].

He throws fewer 'strange' passes than BH!

My player of the season so far.