Quote: NickyKiss "My thoughts were that we’d really get to see if they have the desire to try and earn a place in the first choice team on a regular basis. A way of trying to drive competition but let them know they’d have to play out of their skin to displace Byrne, Bullock or any of the other forwards and you may well get a bit more out of those two in this game than you would out of a first choice forward who thinks his place is safe. I want the strongest spine and a real core of the players who have started these first two games but I just think there’s lots to gain going forward from trying to drive competition in the prop position. There’s a lot of them but none are at the very top of the tree when it comes to superleague props, so I’d like to just see us try and force everything we can out of them. If we lose against York with that side I named, it won’t be because we picked Clubb and Clark IMO.'"
Clarke especially deserves a shot imo. The Salford game was only a friendly, but he showed up well. Outside of that Bullock and Singleton have been average/good since the start of the season. For me, you need to let players who probably aren't playing as well as they could know there's other options.
Like you said, front row is our weakest spot, but we're stacked for options. Unless a top prop drops in our lap we need to make the most out of our current pool.
Who knows, we might see a 2nd season bounce from Clarke? I'm not confident, but how else do you find out?