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Quote: Phuzzy "Hang on a minute Jon! You're being disingenuous again. I never said he was a strike half. I said he had a running game, which he did. Also Deacon scored 85 tries in just shy of 400 games. Thurston scored Scored 109 in a similar amount. Even basic maths tells you that's around 25% more than Deacon and that's before we even get to the fact that he did it in a much, much tougher competition including State of Origin! The comparison should be with Andrew Johns who had a similar strike rate in the same comp, not Deacon who scored far fewer in an easier comp. In fact Jerome Luai who you put forward as a half with a running game has scored 30 tries in 140 games. A try ratio worse than Thurston's! If you're going to be that flexible with the truth I think the discussion has run it's course.

Moto: Thurston scored plenty from distance as well. More importantly, his dummy resulted in a lot of tries that other players scored too
I guess it comes down to the definition of your post maker.

Thurston was a half back much like Deacon (and they have very similar try returns), Smith, Farrimond etc.

French is a pure 5/8th.

We have set our team up to play around a pure 5/8th hence why Rocky got the nod against Cas as he too is suited to the 5/8th role.

If we bring in a second half hack to play in the halves we lose the strike we hand as we don’t have a Tomkins, O’Loughlin, Sculthorpe, Sinfield, Cam Smith type ball playing threat to compliment them.

For the next 8 weeks I personally want to see French at 6 and Smith at 7 as our starting 6 & 7. I don’t like French at 1. I don’t think 2 half backs in the team (Smith and Farrimond) is as effective keeping Smith and French in their roles and exploring other opportunities at 1.

Rocky could have cemented his position in the team for a few months but hasn’t managed to do so, so my preference would be to look at Kerighan (once ban is served) 1 due to his passing game and strike threat whilst bringing Eckersley into the centre.

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Quote: Zig "Zac is a top player. Hopefully, the Club has tied him down for a long period.'"


Surely he will replace Keighran next year?

I recall Keighran signing a 2 year deal - Is there a 1 year in the clubs favour?

Maybe its too early for Zack to be our starting centre, so if we could keep Keighran for 1 more year that would be great, but not at the expense of risking losing Zack.

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Quote: nathan_rugby "Surely he will replace Keighran next year?

I recall Keighran signing a 2 year deal - Is there a 1 year in the clubs favour?

Maybe its too early for Zack to be our starting centre, so if we could keep Keighran for 1 more year that would be great, but not at the expense of risking losing Zack.'"


I think he will take that centre birth in 2026 however he will have to keep earning that right.

Keighran signed for 2 years and the shirt is rightfully his at the moment he will also still only be 28/29 at the start of the 2026 season so will still have plenty of rugby left in him and still be in what should be his career prime.

What goes with his age though will be an expectation of one last big contract and the fact he is on quota which goes against him.

If Eckersley continues like he is though whilst being a tough call to let a centre in Keighran go to accommodate him I’m sure they will make it. I think too it will depend on Miski, I can maybe see ZE taking Miski’s shirt in 2025 which if he does could see him settle there for a further year or 2 before he settles in the centre and he’d still only be 22/23.

Next year….and rest of this with his ability to play wing, centre and fullback he will still get plenty of opportunities to play and continue to develop in the match day 17.

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Did Miski not sign a 4 year contract earlier this year? so think talk of ZE taking his shirt for next season are probably a bit premature?

There's no doubt Miski has been carrying an injury throughout most of this season, and tuesday night seemed to be the 1st time we've seen him playing full on and really making good yards with the ball, especially coming out of our won 20m area

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Quote: Mark_P1973 "Did Miski not sign a 4 year contract earlier this year? so think talk of ZE taking his shirt for next season are probably a bit premature?

There's no doubt Miski has been carrying an injury throughout most of this season, and tuesday night seemed to be the 1st time we've seen him playing full on and really making good yards with the ball, especially coming out of our won 20m area'"



Signed till end of 2027. I just think ZE has more chance of displacing Miski than he does Keighran in the short term.

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Quote: Mark_P1973 "Did Miski not sign a 4 year contract earlier this year? so think talk of ZE taking his shirt for next season are probably a bit premature?

There's no doubt Miski has been carrying an injury throughout most of this season, and tuesday night seemed to be the 1st time we've seen him playing full on and really making good yards with the ball, especially coming out of our won 20m area'"

I don't think it was a coincidence that this coincided with Keighran running the ball out more aggressively too. He even got an offload away. Much more a "Toby King" style of performance.

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