I agree with you Legend. Was relatively happy at half time and was hoping for a win. The next 10 minutes without the ball seemed to really take it out of us.

Think Lineham is out for 9 month

Easily. He’s one of those players who looks bigger than he is. Size wise nothing between him and those two.

Also he’d be a dreadful SR imho.

Whats the big issue with Lineham? He's injured so I don't see how people can say he's not good enough.
Murphy is a surprise but isn't that a good thing if a kid comes through a proves to be better than what we had.
We don't have to then get rid of the other.
We'll still need Lineham when he comes back.

You may well be right I'm not disagreeing with you, but Lineham is a winger and a good one when fit, I would imagine that's why we signed him, imo it smacks of desperation playing him in the second row hence my comment that we might as well play one of the other two big lads.

I think he’s a great winger but there is no doubt that with the return of Kershaw and Kay as emergency that probably makes us winger heavy.

I think there is an argument that had we known Murphy was going to move up so quickly we wouldn’t have signed Lineham.

However he’s here now and once back Kay can truly concentrate on his main role.

In many ways TH leaving would be dire but oddly it’s a position that is now covered by three other very reasonable players.

Wish we had the same options in the pack.