I am not ignoring it. I have acknowledged several times that he is right in saying we haven't had a prolonged period where we had several missing. And I am not attempting to derail anything. I was just putting it out there that there have been occasions where we have been missing a few, as NK was implying it had NEVER happened.

I am happy to let it go and move on but if people either misquote me or accuse me of being ignorant or derailing threads I will respond.

If you haven't read the thread then you don't "know" anything. Every statement has a context. You weren't aware of the context in this case so your assumption that you "knew" something was incorrect. For someone so obsessed with semantics I thought you would have known this.

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Stop trying to be a smart a*se.. NK said we had never been without so many, I said we have. That really is the start and end of it. For someone who has accused me of derailing a thread, posting condescending nonsense like this is a little bit hypocritical.

Let's move on shall we?

But you are and I'm sure you know it. This very post is the latest example. I've asked you to comment on Hopoate as fullback now as opposed to in the past which (once again) you've chosen to ignore whilst simultaneously focussing on one word "never" taken out of context.

Explain how that isn't derailing?

I have answered you about Hopoate. I think in your fury to reply and win a point you have skimmed over it.

I am not derailing anything. I picked up on something NK said and I argued the point. That's it, the end of it. Why are you still going on? If you don't like threads derailing then leave it.

I'm not being a smart a*se or anything else. That explains why your obsessing on the statement you have was incorrect as you didn't know the context. You can't have it both ways mate. If you're insisting you're righting a wrong then you de facto invite the same to be applied to your own statements. Do you disagree?

NK said it was a fact we had never been without 5, 6 or 7 players. He didn't mention for how long in the comment I responded to. I picked up on that and argued the point and proved that in fact we had. I have since gone on to say that I agree we haven't been without players for a sustained period.

There are only so many times I can't type those same words. That really is it. Like I keep saying, if you don't want the thread derailing, then leave it.

You did answer but there were so many replies it skipped a page. My apologies for missing it.

So from your answer you agree that NK had a point when not considering Hopoate a viable option at fullback now?

I love the way you answer and then tell others to leave it!

Tell you what; I'll answer this once then we can both leave it, hey?

Firstly you haven't answered anything. You gave 2 examples, both of which actually proved NK's point. The first one has 4 first teamers missing, not 5 and the 2nd one you lost (which was exactly the point being made in the first place). You've disproved nothing so far

Secondly, by your own admission, you haven't read the thread so have no context with which to show his statement as wrong anyway. If you had read the thread you'll have known that it related to a sustained period of injury so you 'proving' that NK was wrong was totally unnecessary.

There. I've had the last say. Let's leave it now, shall we?

No I don't. He wouldn't be 1st choice but could still slot in comfortably in my opinion. He did play there for a spell in the friendly v Leigh and looked good to be fair. So I think when discussing depth and versatility, Hopoate would be a more than adequate back up to Welsby.

Ok. I can't say I know enough about him now to have a strong opinion either way. If you think there wouldn't be a big drop off in quality I'm more than happy to take your word for it.

I see no- one has mentioned that we were without 5 injured players yesterday and still won.

No Knowles, Lees, Walmsley, Matautia or Hopoate