Hasn’t CC said he doesn’t want to change a winning team, in which case neither should play. Perhaps Arona is just a bit ahead of Dave. He’ll play when he’s ready, blimey it was only last year people were moaning that he was playing when he shouldn’t have been.

Club can’t win at times.

Just expanding on that idea, I do frequently think that we could benefit from "thinking outside the box" a bit more, such as taking a quick drop-out when we have knocked the ball dead. At the moment everyone see's it as an opportunity to get some air back in the lungs having just defended a set of 6 and runs the shot-clock right down. Why not get everyone on side asap then bang it into touch while the opposition are still jogging back into position, or alternatively let them get set in their usual positions on the 10 metre line and halfway line and only kick it 15-20 metres for one of our speedsters to run onto and try and collect ??
Nothing ventured....nothing gained !!

A lot on here are against him but those are the type of things I’d expect from Brough!

I actually said to me old man at the game at a point in the second half we had a scrum in our 20 and Shaul was up in the line...all it needed was a long punt down field and a luck of the bounce because if it was pre planned you’d basically have had Johnstone up against Fonua who would have had to have turned and started from a standing start!

Just because kicking straight from the scrum is an old fashioned idea it doesnt mean its a bad play especially with a speedy winger think last time wakey did it was when brough kicked through against catalans about 8 years ago

Remember Liam Finn chipping over the top against Catalan couple years back with Tom Johnstone going length of the field

Drinkwaters penalty fell short and Finn took the catsch and immediately put one towards TJs wing. Try of the season?