Your opinions on Trout are frankly ill informed rhubarb as per normal - try facing the pitch next time you watch him.

As for Anakin, if you knew the club properly especially the youth set you would know that Anakin did not "come from nowhere" and was fully expected to be a success by just about everyone at the club. Agar was late on the up take but tbf he wasn't at the club when Anakin was the star of the under 19's.

I'd keep both at the club.
Annakin I'd be happy as a starting back row though it is a position with competition for places.
Trout I've been happy with every time he has played. I think he needs another season with a clearly defined role and he'll work out fine.

Are you still accusing people of being 'rhubarb'... ?..?

It must be seven years since you last accused me of being that person.... And I still feel the scars

Agree on the point about Annekin...he hardly sneaked up and came from nowhere! Was one of the best i've seen at the club at academy level right up there and probably above the likes of Ellis and Westwood at that age......still has the potential to go the same way as those two for me....

I just hope players are picked on pre season form only. Tautai was very poor last season and on his past form is well down the pecking order , Smith has to prove that he deserves a place, the only way he can do this is impress in training and rip into the pre season games, I doubt that any one has seen him play yet he gets into some peoples starting line up, based on what ? Our two new Aussie forwards have to prove that they are better than Trout, Anakin and Walshaw in order to deserve selection. We are in for a backs to the wall season, players getting selection on reputation, like last season, will be a disaster. London now have a new owner and a tie up with Wigan which will see Wigan loan junior players to London. Most of our first team players have shown over the last two seasons that they do not have the ability to beat Wigans second team, the only players who have proved that they could win against Wigans best are Wildie, Trout, Anakin and Walshaw who ran the Wigan team ragged at under 18`s and 20`s. I hope that these players if they impress in training and perform well in pre season games are given a start.

That's why I won't pick a starting 13/17.

Earned on merit in pre-season and very few of us have that knowledge.

It matters not where they come from or how long they have been around.
Team should be picked on merit.
Each game best 17 available,based on attitude, ability, form etc.

But where is the fun in that during pre season?

Any truth in rumour Re Liam Flynn?

Typo for rubbish

Agar has shown the team won't be picked on merit. The club trained players will only get a chance through injury. For what its worth Anakin and one of Trout and Walshaw would start for me.

That's very unfair. How have you come to that conclusion - how do you know what his decisions were based on - does he ring you?

Walshaw for one did nothing last year to justify automatic selection, same for Trout.

This club trained stuff for me is overdone even though I do accept there is a bias towards Aussies - but then they do generally tend to be far more reliable than their UK counterparts so it's easy to understand coaches motives.

With the disastrous decision to bring back P&R it will only get worse as it forces coaches to go safety first.

Completely agree. Bad day for RL when they reintroduced p&r.

Is he related to our former players Adrian Flynn and Wayne Flynn??

Why? If it's even handed and transparent then I've no complaints at P&R, if on the other hand the RL decide to cherry pick then that's a different thing!