I would be more inclined to give Max Jowitt a long term deal over Sam Williams...In my opinion Max will develop into a more than adequate HB.

I think the role you are talking about snowie, hooker in a scrum, has for a long time been defunct. You might have noticed last Saturday that on occasion Fifita was the middle man in the front row of the scrum, yes, I kid you not. The way scrums are "fed" nowadays it is virtually impossible for the non-feeding team to "hook" the ball.

When I think of hookers now I think of the acting dummy half, key to ball distribution and quick scoots from the ruck during sustained periods of the game. Parcell was a good example last Saturday of how to execute that role well.

not seen any hooker play the ball out of a scrum in years they are just play makers behind the play the ball

I hate the lazy scums, seems half the time they can't be bothered to bend down or even link it together

See wildshot's post - hooking out the scrum may be defunct, but there are plenty of other skills a specialist hooker brings to the modern game; any of the players I listed would get a gig in any SL team, for that very reason.

Yes your right, back in the day where snowie's talking about the hooker was only as good as his blindside prop, he was the one who had the biggest hand in making the hooker successful.