As a leftie, he's going to struggle more when kicking from the left touchline.

Hopefully, he does what Richards did, and goes out and does hours and hours of practice.

At the start of the season, when we had a strong squad, Tommy was really guiding us around and allowing Williams to run riot. With a few more experienced players coming back I can se his form picking up again and certainly wouldn't move him yet. I'm confident we'll get back that slickness we had in attack before the injury curse kicked in again!

While we're waiting i'd be tempted to tinker and move Powell into the halves and Tommy to hooker,it's not working at the moment so something needs to be tried.

I was surprised that didn't happen on Thursday when Powell came back on after cracking his ribs. Even when Powell went off it was Williams that went to 9 so I guess Leuluai at hooker is a very latter option.

I don't think there are any major issues with Leuluai at seven other then the fact he's missing a whole heap of strike players around him. He should've had Bateman, Gelling and Tierney (or in an ideal world Manfredi) outside him and if he had nobody would bat an eyelid about his form. The facts are he's had different second rowers plus a couple of young kids in the centre/wing positions and it's tough.

We had this last year were people spoke of our faltering attack. It's faltering because it's missing its major attacking weapons, not because of tactics or because of individuals under performing. Take Messi and Suarez out of the Barcelona team and see if they'd keep running through teams.

The centres are the big issue for me yet I blame neither Forsyth or Isa. They both received some top quality ball last week, in good positions and they couldn't do anything with it. One is a young kid who'd be better served being eased in playing in a strong team or maybe on the wing and the other is a loose forward/prop with no pace and not the best hands you'll ever see. I'm praying Gelling is back Friday and we go with him and Joel in the centres.

We're doing it tough but we'll be fine.

Agree about Tommy (although he was poor against Cas) and the centres. Of course, we might reasonably have expected to have Bateman as an option in the centres, but that's closed off to us too now.