Walker used to drift into the line very effectively for London.

I always found this the weakest part of his game. The lad can tackle and take high balls all day but I always find that despite him joining the line to create the extra man he hesitates to find that pass that creates the overlap and ends up running it in himself. This has continued in his trinity appearances. If you watch a few games on trinity tv you’ll see this too on many occasions. Not that I think he isn’t a good full back because he is in my opinion just this is one thing he needs to work on heavily in attacking positions imo.

Do you think it's the player or the structure / coaching ?

On the subject of Tom Johnstone, I think his career is in danger of being stagnated!
We all want him to stay as part of a team that competes and regularly gives him the chance to show his abilities but that’s just not happening.

Injuries haven’t helped but the attention his try scoring prowess generated could soon be forgotten while some lesser or younger players steal his place in the England team. A good example is Ash Handley at Leeds, a good player but not brilliant however he’s worked hard and improved and now he scores try’s for fun and looks a solid bet for an England call up maybe at TJs expense.

Being unselfish I would advise Tom to look around for another club NRL or SL and to do what Topliss did after years of loyalty and go somewhere where he can win things and secure his Representative place.

There’s a question. It’s hard to quantify. I think it’s more a combination of player, the teams pivots and the coaching element. I think a quality SH would go a long way to creating that extra bit of space across the line to exploit. I also think that the one advantage of Jowitt to Walker is that he has that pass in him when joining the line (cut out ball) that Walker seems to have a reluctance to try. Again that may be because our pivots aren’t taking the ball to the line and drawing the numbers in to make the space.

I don't think Saints will be as complacent or make as many mistakes in attack or defence this time round, so much so that I think we'll struggle to score unless they put the cue on the rack

Hope i'm wrong tho, like I was last weekicon_smile.gif

Looking at squad id be changing bjb for senior..Naverette for tangata and green for baily starting kelepi at sr znd batch on bench to hell cover 9

Squad for Thursday:

Walker, Johnstone, Lyne, Jones-Bishop, Fifita, Ashurst, Westerman, Kopczak, Batchelor, Green, Tangata, Jowitt, Wood, Croft, Hampshire, Bailey, Tanginoa, Navarrete, Senior, Battye.

and we are still only naming 20 players (perhaps someone thinks that Jones-Bishop is 2 players)

I didn't realise until just now that Sky ARE now showing the match on Sky Sports Mix....was thinking I would have to get an access code and watch it on the OurLeague App ??

Good news that FIL and well spotted.
I'll take back my "FFS!" comment about the "no show" now......

Tonight's 17..... https://twitter.com/WTrinityRL/status/1 ... 40/photo/1

Tonight's 17..... https://twitter.com/WTrinityRL/status/1 ... 40/photo/1

Where’s Liam Kay these days?

I take it that anyone not in the squad is either not fit or has some link with covid. Think it was a shoulder injury with Kaye but it could well be covid now.
Is that any help?

Did he call Ashurst Chris Ashton?