Still looked a bit rusty for my money, got well out jumped by Ah Van to conceed a try and bombed what looked a certain try. It's nice for him to get a lot of publicity for scoring a brace on his comeback but I wouldn't read too much into them, they were walk-ins.

Indeed. As I wrote in my report "A man with no arms would score bag fulls playing alongside Carmont". Amos pretty much fed of either him or Sam Tomkins all afternoon. As you say, bombed a certain try as well when he scould have gone for the corner but instead cut inside. Perhaps a little bit of mental torment there from when he got injured against Wakefield last year?

He looked pretty sharp, he bombed a chance but it didn't cost us the game and he will gain confidence. Its only his first game and it was only the 3rd game against wire last season when he really turned it on.

Scored 2 tries in his first 3 games last year so I will take that again this year, 2 tries next week from Amos would be lovely!

Yeah I think it was good to get him a run out because that injury will have been getting bigger and bigger in his mind, hopefully he'll believe his own hype after getting the local headlines this week because we all know what he can do when he's confident!

He's a luxury import player - we have other players capable enough in his positions and picking him will hold back Charnley, Marsh, etc.

Would you rather he played in the reserves then? We saw last year, when fully fit he is one of the best outside backs in the competition.

Thats bulls bags, Roberts was the best player in the league at one point last season! The younger lads will learn from class like that, its the journeymen imports we need to avoid.

Marsh not good enough IMO

You've fallen for a cliche; one well used and highly inaccurate.

In reality, the only way young players learn is by actually playing.

And there you are with another Well used inaccurate one

I'm guessing, training with guys like these (And I know from speaking to people at the club about how much influence Phil Bailey had over them for a couple of years) that that it will only help them mature and pick up the finer points of the game and most importantly, teach them the right Habits in training etc.

Given your scenario we may as well get rid of Pat/Roberts/Carmont/Finch/Tommy/Lima/Hoffman etc and put all the kids in?
We've been there before and it didn't quite work to plan.

Don't be daft.
But I am uneasy with the potential prospect of 5 of the 7 back positions in the team being taken up by imports. Whichever way you reason it it's too many.

Roberts can be a huge part of this side this season but he does still look to be finding his feet after his bad injury. He looks alot fitter and more settled in himself then he did when he came back into the side at the end of 2010 and a few more trys will gets his confidence back to the level it was at around the start of last season.

When he's full of confidence and on top form he's a supreme player.

He goes to the leftttt...

Yeah, because Roberts and Marsh are of similar quality the only young local back we have outside the 17 that ran out at the weekend who is ready for regular SL action is Charnley, and he'll get plenty gametime this year, and possibly the 4 shirt in 2012 (will be either him or Pryce with the other being the reseve back IMO)