that might have something to do with the players we sign..usually over 30 and finished....

Top post and spot on!

Going on squad numbers...

Average age of squad numbers 1-17 is 28.

Average age of the entire 33-man squad is 24.5.

thats abit padantic...... omeley,lynch,galea,horne,yeaman are over 30 for a start..tickle must be close.....
when you take into account how young nicklas,cunningham,kent etc are then does that even it out?? no. our first team players are too old......

Going on squad numbers again...

We have 7 players who are 30 years old or older wearing shirts from 1-17. We have 1 in the rest of the squad. That's 8 players out of a squad of 33.

The 8 'old men' are Yeaman (30), Ogre (32), Lynch (34), Ellis (32), Tickle (30), Galea (35), Horne (31), and Heremaia (31).

Most people on here think that Yeaman is our best centre. Horne has been one of our better players so far this season. I guess you'll allow that Ellis was a good signing? Lynch isn't that old for a prop and most people were happy with his signing. Ogre was retained because we literally couldn't find anyone else to replace him. Heremaia is not old for a hooker.

Galea I'll give you. Pointless signing for mine.

Don't forget Lynch is the new scapegoat

Galea I don't understand either in the big picture.

correct, but its also 8 out of our starting 17...... and that is a worry, whiting cant be far off either!!!

It's not stopping Wire .

How old was Berrigan when we signed him?

Think 29 when started first season

Berro was still going strong for the Raiders yesterday.

You might want to do a comparison with Wire.

Whiting is 29 I think.

Forwards are not typically considered old at 30. Props in particular.

Galea, Ogre, and Tickle are out of contract at the end of the year. Heremaia has an option for one more.

Lynch has been pedestrian in all games and has had no go forward in him at all. He seems happy to stop before the tackle and turn as if to offload without actually offloading - needs an imposed rest for me, we have several young forwards who will imo offer more.

Galea is a worry for me for Friday, he is either going to have the game of the season and rip it up or go missing and cost us dearly due to his association with the scum.

Whilst I don't think Andy Lynch has reached his form of last year he is our second top metre maker behind Tom Briscoe and third top tackler. His work rate is very high and he carries the ball more than any other player except Houghton. He's a grafter who is always there to take the ball up and not an impact player who goes off after 4 carries. IMO we miss Sam Moa to balance Lynch - both types of player are needed. I also think he should have remained as skipper as he was always willing to fight our corner with the referee which is something missing this year. I don't think he's bothered about losing the captaincy as his stats show clearly - I just think he was good at it and should have been allowed to continue.