sounds as though reece dean had a cracker at scrum half

Did little wrong, but Naughton offered more going forward and for me should be cover for Shaul.

Don't see what we will gain by signing Smith.

Tend to agree with this, Naughton very lively today. The physicality of our younger players is looking good, thinking about Turgut and Matongo in particular but whereas in the past we've had forwards coming through who haven't bulked up that looks like it's being addressed. Based on today and Ellis's injury I'd expect Green and Feka to make the bench against Salford with Lancaster and Naughton pushing for selection if Talanoa's injury isn't fully recovered.

I would agree with the others about Lee Smith, I don't see what he gives us over what we have, he had a couple of nice touches but he didnt exactly boss it against poor opposition, Leon Pryce did.

Not mentioned yet but other than the intercept pass Jez Litten looked tidy, good distribution.

Litten has good promise. He'll learn from the loose pass that was intercepted. There was a couple of times Feka, Whiting and Bowden got an arm free for someone to follow - Litten was maybe setting for the next play at that point. For a young kid, he held is own, especially when Donny tried roughing up towards the end when there was mostly kids out there.

Felt for him, I think he's only 17 and like you say had distributed well.