Gentle has also said that he doesn’t want to play too many youngsters at the same time. It can be detrimental to their progress to play too many at the same time.

I will take his knowledge of youth development, above some wannabe.

Think we're still in a desperate situation and can barely field a team. Still think we should be resting everyone we can who's not 100%. Would guess after the next fortnight off we'll see no more of Radders.

Someone speaking sense at last..

He's hardly pushing Andy Lynch for quality, experience, and a proven ability to play long minutes either.

bit of thread drift but on the subject of injuries, where's Heremaia?

They'd have to play if we didn't have the cop out of Radford.

Don't understand your last comment really, seems to just be a dig. Very constructive.

Green's not the issue. Or he shouldn't be.

If Agar was doing this there'd be uproar on here.

been dropped to make way for Andy Last

Why is Radford a cop out? would you rather we play 4 or 5 inexperienced players against a first team Wigan outfit?
Like PG said wouldn't do them any good. I trust his experience and knowledge too.

So what you're saying is that we should always play the youngsters regardless of whether it's the best option or not?

Did you read the posts I was responding to? Only you seem to have missed the point.


There was uproar on here whenever Agar did anything. However I can pretty much guarantee that had Agar played the youngsters as much as Gentle has then the reaction to 'doing this' would be similar to what it is now - one or two folk getting their knickers in a twist for no apparent reason while the majority look on in puzzlement.

Is he mentally ready?

With all due respect I would imagine the coaching staff will know if Green is ready to play against 2 of the best packs in Super League in the space of 7 days and I would hope they have Chris Greens development at the forefront of their minds.

Got to ease a young prop into Super League.