2021 squad

Quote: vastman "No they don’t, find me these clubs with 6 experienced specialist props please. There aren’t many, most have four to five out and out props, the rest are middles or youngsters.

Following your logic Aydin is a prop and has nearly as much first team as some listed props at some other clubs. You’re seeing what you want to see.

So tomorrow I’ll be a bore and go through all the SL teams and list the specialist and experienced props and see where we are and put this one to bed. I will by the way include Tanginoa because like it or not he’s a very good prop.

Hampshire is a HB in the same way Tanginoa is a prop, he can play well at both, what Hampshire is is a utility player, ditto Gigot who is not a natural FB. You seem to want it all ways.

Walkers is the out of step player because he’d the one we could get away with losing to find the cash for a prop. That said he could still prove his worth if we have a crisis on the backs.

It’s impossible to cover every eventuality as regards players, every team even Saints have week areas, it’s just how the dice falls sometimes. Why panic in December, it’s just bizarre imho.'"

Tanginoa is a very good prop, I just think he's a better second rower. But Chester has commented recently that he hopes to use him in the back row so to include him is distorting the facts. But if you insist on including him and Aydin, make sure you include all the cover and youngsters from other clubs as well.

Agree about Walker, although I think he'd be fine had we not signed Gigot. I understand why we brought him in when we did, but with Jowitt hitting form and the need for an organising half it's not really worked out and left us top heavy.

I'm not panicking, there's two and a half months to go and as I said in my original post we've still got some work to do. I'm basing my opinion on the squad as it is now, not what I think it'll be come March. I still reckon we'll add Battye, but London will need to get their squad in order for that to happen.