Walshaw apparently suffered a groin injury according to webster. Trying to get him to 100% as with Kirmond as well, as last time DK was saying he didn't give enough time

"in the same catergory as knocker Norton Bill Ashurst etc"

Woah! Slow down there Briggy.
He's good but those two are two of the most skillful forwards in the history of the game.
Gilmour is an athlete who can play centre and second row because he is big and fast. I like him now and liked him then but he isn't Knocker or Ashurst.

I won't even attempt to compare him to heroes of the past but he has been excellent for us in the last few games. His defence is superb, he almost always turns the player onto his back giving the rest of the defence that little bit of extra time to get set.
His contribution to the attack is not bad either, he doesn't quite look like he is going to win you a match but he damn sure won't be the cause of you losing one IMO.

I do think Annakin is the future but I would find it hard at the minute to drop Gilmour.

What i meant was not like for like but what they brought to the game, when these sort of players were on the field they could spark something into life , just turn a game, its just something these sort of players have as a natural ability its difficult to coach if you see what i mean.

I'm by no means going to say Raleigh hasn't been a decent squad player for us but he shouldn't be in the team. For me he has always been one of the lightweight forwards. He gets dominated in the collision too often for my liking. On the plus he works hard. But, for me, it's Raleigh to miss out in the props unless we have a few injuries.

Ok, I'm ok with that