By all accounts we had at least one prop lined up to come in but the situation I.E. not getting the planning permission meaning the short fall in funding meant that we could not sign them.

I reckon that within the next couple of weeks we will have signed at least one prop and also Gledhill will be fit and he will hopefully carry on from the promise he showed last season.

I thought Paul Johnson was excellent yesterday would have loved to see his stats...he tooks lots of ball for his first spell making yards all the time...
And second was just as good..
Very impressed with this Kid..
As for Korkidas..penalty machine, slow play of the ball, sloppy in defence, his time is up for me...

Agree with all of that. Korky is a great guy but look at what he gives compared to Johnson both in contribution and minutes on the field and there is no comparison.

Yes we did and thats not something Kear could do anything about, plus Bens back soon.

Not JK's biggest fan but hey we could all do a better job. throw hindsight into the mix and we don't need a coach we could pick and sign all the players off here

Johnsons all heart and has a big engine, can't fault the effort.

Korki's got faults i agree but we are short of props so we'll have to work with him and get the best out of him.

Agree Al but as soon as Gledhill is back or we get a new prop as speculated.. he wouldnt be in my 17...

a penalty machine. where do you get that from. 3 penalties . 2 of which were very doubtful. the guy that gave most penalties away yesterday, you fail to mention.
the guy worked his nuts off. i was there and saw people a lot more sloppy in defence, i also watched a team with no recognised stand off, no specialist scrum half. only 2 props and a bunch of kids who gave all they had got . were 12 down in the penalty count. 2 men off the field for 10 mins each and still came away with a better score than cas did last millenium. i'd like to say the supporters that actually got there in good numbers and got behind the boys with some fantastic support were great. my opinion is for the first game of the season with what we have got against cas's sunday best. we did ok. we can only play what we have got , so instead of bagging them we should get behind them..

I will concede that we seem to have too many backs/utility players and we do lack Props, but none of us really know what the plan was upstairs, JK may be lots of things but he's not stupid.


Who knows Tricky, i'm sure you'll agree that its never that simple working at Wakey.

Opinions mate we are all allowed them, well maybe not all


Did you enjoy the day, did we have decent support yesterday, looked poor on the TV.

Absolutely. Even now I am waiting for a problem to crop up with the official confirmation of the new owners!

Anythings possible at this club, unlikely in this case but you just never know.


Anyway what did you think to Luke George yesterday, nailed a couple of Cas players to stop an overlap and IMO can't be be blamed for being left exposed.

Best all round game i've seen from him and i don't think he got injured

There's a mini bus full of Crusaders fans down from Cheshire !!! The cardiff people are there in droves. The Crusaders are our target this year, they have in essence gone bust 2 yrs running and my money will be on the hat-trick this season, which will leave the red hall boys with no where to turn.