Peet obviously knows more about us than coaching a professional side so surely he can see that French at 6 is completely disjointing the team and completely nullifying his skill set. You have to wonder if French's contract negotiations went along the lines of "Sign this Bevan, we will give you more money, if an NRL side comes in we will let you go and don't worry, we will get you off the wing and into the halves where you want to be"

I am sure i read somewhere he was dropped at Parramatta because he didn't want to play on the wing. Somebody needs to tell him just how good a winger he is. I was ranking him up there with Offiah last year, he was THAT good. Big decisions need to be made. No way we win anything with French at 6, he is a strike player who is being stunted and there is no flow to any attack, aside from that, French keeps trying these flick passes that 8 times out of 10 hit the deck or go in touch. He is clearly uncomfortable there.

The question then becomes, where does he go? Who gets dropped? That is why Peet is paid the bucks though, we can save this season (Sounds stupid with us being in 2nd) but some big calls need to be made.

My concern is Peet won't move French from the halves because if he did it would be an admittance that he was wrong to put him there in the first place.

We are desperate for a quality 6, we had enough field position to win the Hull game comfortably. It is our Achilles heel.

I understand what you're saying but other poor performances were not uniquely with French at 6. The point I'm making is that in all previous weeks he's made strong progress and because we had one poor performance in atrocious conditions when nobody played particularly well, it's all because French is at 6. We've won the majority of games when he's played there.

It's interesting that there's been, quite rightly, some good things said about Jake Clifford on these boards over the weeks yet even though he was busy being largely ineffective and kicking out on the full etc on Friday, no one is suggesting Hull should move him as "it isn't working". I bet Clifford would love the win ratio French currently has.

I’d like to think that Peet is bigger than that.
Basically we are playing a “project” player at 6 in the hope that he will eventually click. It’s verging on the absurd and wasting a wonderful talent. You can’t learn how to be a HB in half a season.
As I’ve said not sure what Peet will do. I thought Hampshire was the real deal a few years ago but he seems to have regressed over the years and unless he has some sort of resurgence he appears to be very much a squad player who will only get a game at HB in an emergency. It’s a pity young Farrimond isn’t a couple of years older.

Spot on with Farrimond, he looks a star of the future.