No I didn't

You started the "talking B0110x" Bit below



I was just joining in?

With the return of Tomkins someone is going to miss out. Do we think it will be Sam Powell?

Im thinking more like bowen retiring

Could be that the low spending, and the opportunities given to younger players has been geared around this happening, lets hope so.

Bowens ooc at the end of the season anyway

With any luck, we will ship him out in the next few weeks and bring Sam home early

I think he means because there's 5 positions (FB, SO, SH, H and one bench spot) between 7 players (Hampshire, S.Tomkins, Smith, McIlorum, Williams, Powell and L.Tomkins). I think L.Tomkins and either Smith or Powell will end up at pastures new. Problem is both Smith and Powell are contracted for 3 seasons after this one

Well we have Tomkins, Hampshire, Powell, Williams, Smith, McIlorum and Logan Tomkins, 7 players for 5 positions.

I feel it could be Smith and Logan that we see leaving the club and I'd go with...
1. Tomkins
6. Hampshire
7. Powell
9. McIlorum
Williams on from the bench.

I do worry about the lack of a long kicking game though!

I think you are right about this. IIRC Lenegan mentioned at the time that the return clause (i.e us getting first refusal) included a pre-agreed wage level for Sam. If that is the case then I would imagine any re-negotiation would probably only happen if there was a desire for a longer contract than was stated in the clause.

I am still wary of counting chickens too much though. Hope he does return to us.

"@SkySportsNewsHQ: Phil Clarke says he wouldn't be surprised to see Tomkins move to @leedsrhinos or @wolvesrl" -his brother still his agent?

Phil Clarke's main function for Sky seems to be to spout total guff in order to generate comments from fans disagreeing with him. Things he says have about the same credibility as if somebody said their dog had told them. He is all about getting stuff to trend on twitter and so forth, the content is of marginal importance compared to the response to it.

With a lot of stuff he puts out on the website and during broadcasts you could be forgiven for not knowing he had played the sport. Whether his output is his choice or his paymasters' I don't know but it just makes him look daft a lot of the time.

We need to make sure this is us (which I'm sure we will, unless he goes to RU).
If we could somehow arrange for Bowen to suffer homesickness as well and get Tomkins in sooner then even better!