Thats a fair point

team like mine
turned you lot over last year at your place

Can't understand what Shaun Wane - a man who emanates passion - sees in the apathetic and dispassionate Bowen.

carnt see there being many high points to yours this year

Wetting myself here at the saddo's posting...

Back on topic please children.

He looks a lemon. he didn't even leave the ground and challenge for the bombs.

Some of the comments on here are pathetic. I'm not going to argue he had a great game but nobody has mentioned the high balls he took very well, the huge shot he put on Jennings which stopped a certain try scoring opportunity, and the try saving tackle on the best rugby player in the world.

Please will people stop pretending everything he did was bad, it wasn't.

Glad the thread title has been changed, all of a sudden he is the scapegoat, certainly not the reason we lost though.

Agree with all this, I said to Rogues that without even coming on here it would be all about Bowen. The tackle he made on SBW and Jennings were superb, I doubt Sam would have made the one on SBW! He did have a poor game though and made some costly errors but at least give him time to settle in for godsake. He also wasn't the reason we lost tonights game either, 15 errors in the first half are what lost us the game.

Just for the record i didn't start this thread i just replied to a thread entitled 'Matty Bowen', but for some reason i am listed as starting it

No excuse when his dropping balls on a dry pitch in Australia

He's an Australian import in his 30's and is playing ahead of a young British player, Bowen is nailed on to be this years scapegoat. He's a few dropped kicks away from being the anti-Christ.

He struggled today. He's bound to find it difficult to adjust to a new team having played for just one club for his entire career. It's going to be difficult to adapt.

The Roosters took advantage of our errors - Bowen made some - but on past performance Hampshire would have too. He almost certainly wouldn't have made the try saving tackles that Bowen did as he's never done anything like that before. They'd have picked Hampshire out as the weak link and punished him all game. That's what will happen if you put a 19 year old, who is still unfamiliar with the fullback position, is very weak under the high ball and lacks positioning sense into a WCC against the best club side in the world.

Bowen could be a poor signing, he could turn out to be a decent one, but there was only one player Wane could have picked at fullback for that game.

2 games in a new team with new structures is plenty of time. Send him home and play Gelling at the back. Bloody foreigners coming over here taking our jobs.

Spot on give him a chance