But in reverse? Sorry I don’t follow. What’s the reverse?

Did Lam not have a good enough squad to do better than he did and have us playing good rugby?

Hardaker-international and former MOS
Gildart-international starting centre
Sarginson-NRL experience, GF winner and former international
Williams-MOS contender current international. WCC winner
Tommy-former NZ international: WCC winner, GF winner etc
Flower, Powell, Clubb-all former internationals world a ton of experience from WCC to GF wins
Faz and Greenwood; internationals; bags of experience in big games, Greenwood has NRL experience Faz named in the dream team.
Lockers-current England captain.

Out of them...
Burgess
Gildart
Sarg
Williams
Tommy
Flower
Powell
Flower
Greenwood
Faz
Lockers

All played in a team which went undefeated in the playoffs and won the GF the previous year.

This idea that Lam was giving a poor hand needs to stop.

" Those two kill us at the start and then guys like Amor and LMS have it easy against a tiring defence. I don’t need stats to prove that’s the case, it’s just what happened and it’s what happens in any good team"-my point was how you're almost dismissing the hard work of other players IF the likes of Amor and LMS have strong stats, if someone makes the yards (which is a recognisable stat) they should be rewarded for it.

I'm also of the believe that props shouldn't be dependent on other props 'making it easy or easier' for them; it's baffling to me as each prop should be pulling their own weight and contributing accordingly for their position, none this 'balance' where one makes the yards etc, the 'balance' comes from the team as a whole. I do understand your point; I just disagree.

Every single prop should have the basic attributes as I stated in a previous post. None of this 'well some make the hard yards to make others shine' nonsense. Each prop must stand on their own two feet and be counted; in all elements of a their game, if not, they need to go-that's what having standards is.

Surely you don't accept a prop not pulling his weight etc and remaining in the team...

Next season; am I happy with our props? Time will tell; but in honestly not overly. Burgess over recent seasons has become an unknown quantity with some great games and some which have beeb frankly poor; anyone who watches the NRL will say the same. Clark again is an unknown. He was a bench player only at Leigh; many not massively convinced about him; at that level he should be smashing them to pieces if we're being honest.
Bullock has potential; area of his game are strong but fitness and cover D and finding his position in the defensive line are lacking. Hopefully things he can work on. Flower and Clubb both look like spent forces and Partington seems to hit the line at a snails pace and then hit the floor making little impact.

I’ve said previously there’s heaps of pressure on George Burgess. We need him to be our Walmsley or Thompson if we want to close the gap to Saints because if he comes in and he’s no improvement on Clubb and co then we’re snookered. I’m also not entirely convinced but can hope he can find his best again with the excitement of a new challenge. If he can I think he can have a knock on effect on the firm of others. I don’t see Flower as being finished, he just wasn’t match fit at the back end of the year after a couple (more) injuries. I like Bullock but he’s loads to work on and Clark has shown at Cas that he can be very good on his day.

It’s not perfect but it’s much better then 2019. Somebody on the rumours thread mentioned us wanting one more prop if we could offload a couple of bodies, so you never know things may improve further.

Has Hamlin's case been formally closed yet ?
Apologies if I've missed an announcement but he's still showing as a squad member on the club's website.

We look to be going down the classic brush it under the carpet and hope it goes away route with that one.

I’d actually forgotten all about Hamlin. He would have been such a boost last season for us and going in to 2020 too. Terrible waste of a career but time is on his side fortunately enough. I just hope the club don’t do as feared and brush it under the carpet and hope, like I did, people forget.

It's seems like it's taken an eternity. Surely the club can put this one to bed and move on. Perhaps it's a little more complex than we know; maybe Hamlin has a case against Wigan or something we don't know about...

I can’t remember if WADA usually take this long or not to be honest. Too many maybes and not enough facts for my liking which could do with being addressed well before the 2020 season start

I was just wondering if there was more to it... speculated that perhaps Hamlin has he own legal case or representation prolonging the case. Just seems to be taking an eternity.

Don't think it matters really as he was OOC at the end of the season.

FWIW he'd have definitely improved our side next season, but it's not to be.

Didn't realise hie contract was up. no worries then, he's not impeding any transfer/cap movements.

Well at least that's what I got told on here, so take it with a pinch of salt.

I think it was up and the talk was he was homesick anyway. He certainly looks to be enjoying himself when you see his social media accounts. It’s a shame we didn’t see more of him because I think he had great potential.

If we could offload Hamlins wage, Clubb, Navarette, Escare etc we could try and sign some quality in Christian Welch or Jordan McLean from the NRL, they are free agents as of now.