Your guess is as good as mine. That said we have been down to the bare bones in the position on ocassion and he has been there to plug that gap.

At the time there was an issue with re-signing Rocky who was ooc, so made sense initially. I wish we didn’t bother though, one poster said Rocky couldn’t tackle, maybe his defence is suspect, but he brought a lot more to the attack than Walker ever did.

Think there was one game where Johnstone made more tackles than Walker.

Hardly had a mention in last night's plaudits but, having been disappointed with him so far this season, I was really impressed with his efforts last night and was more than happy to applaud him off at the end of the game

Topped the tackle count with 39 and missed 1.
Thats more than anyone on either side, including the back rowers who played more minutes.

He took the ball up well against an aggressive young Wigan pack, quick play the balls and tackled his heart out. What more do you want

Yes I agree. He was very busy yesterday and was a constant nuisance in the middle to Wigan. He was very aggressive which was fantastic to see.

He's an old fashioned ball playing prop, just needs that support player running with him.
He takes it to the line how our halves should and looks to create space.