We have good up and coming props who i'd rather give game time than a Justin Poore like signing.

Fine if you're happy with 7th to 10th place. We can't expect to have a great team sourced from our academy

Not sourced but backed up from the academy.

That would leave us with lynch, watts, johnson, bowden and green as props.

What has O'Chubby done this season?

Thanks for the update.

We'd also have Pitts and Wilson.

Whilst I'm all in favour of promoting youngsters into the team I do feel that should we lose some of our more experienced players such as Tickle, O'Meley and Galea that we could do to replace them with some other experienced players to give the squad balance.

McDonnell - 25
Lineham - 21
Arundel - 21
Yeaman - 29
Crookes - 22
Horne - 30
Holdsworth - 28
Lynch - 33
Houghton - 24
Watts - 22
Ellis - 31
Westerman - 23
Pitts - 23

Green - 23
Johnson - 25
Whiting - 28
Heremaia - 30

Throw in Shaul, Crooks, Nicklas, Bowden, Cunningham, Wilson, Hadley, Starling , Kent and that half and it doesn't look to inexperienced.

I take back what I said. That looks a lot better than I thought in terms of balance.

Also bodes well for the future also.

Age has little to do with it.

Out of that 17 - 6 have less than 50 SL appearances and a total of 10 have less than a hundred. Behind that there's less than 30 between them.

Also, if we're signing a new half then Horne won't play, so that's one less experienced player.

There's also the question of leadership. Only 3 or 4 of those could you class as leaders - Lynch, Ellis and Westerman, and maybe Whiting.

After Friday, I couldn't even consider Westerman or Whiting as leader contenders

Westerman against Rovers seemed to be the only one firing them up behind the sticks -

Nothing wrong with Westy's spirit it's a strength of his. If you do the firing up though you do need to practice what you preach.

Fine if you want to be in the bottom 6