Quote: east hull FC fan "I thought Nicklas was on loan, so not an option? Agree about Heremaia, not sure I'd question Gentle quite so early. Heremaia played behind a beaten pack last Saturday, ironically as Seymour did.'"
Surely we must have some sort of recall clause? Otherwise what's the point of a 1 year contract & farming him out for the entire length of it?
Agree about the beaten pack, and that's essentially the point. Heremaia was at least as ineffectual as Seymour, and as ineffectual as any half will be without space in which to work. That's exactly why I'd question Gentle if he does it again, because it should be clear now that whoever he picks out of Seymour and Heremaia will not work until he sorts the PTB out, and moving Heremaia just gives us an additional problem elsewhere. It really is a no-brainer to keep Heremaia away from the halves except in dire emergency, so I'll be worried if he can't see that. Incidentally, it's not that early, either. He's been here over a year now, with a good few months of evidence of Heremaia at both hooker and scrum half.