He'll be our full back for the foreseeable future. Russell played well against Leeds, but he's here as cover for us as what we currently have at the club isn't good enough ie Reece Lyne. However if Horne is fit and available he will play there I have no doubt.

Hope your right, Whiting was awesome and deserves the chance to be able to back that performance up, which I think he will.

Quote of the day mate!!!!
if ever a player earned the right to another bash at a position then RW earned that against Leeds who remember didnt play badly but very much due to RW broke down around the centre due to his tenacity in the tackle and his ball skills were there for all to see from minute 1 to minute 80
has he had a bad game this season yet?

I expect (and hope) Russell will remain at fullback whilst he's with us, with Horne returning to the halves with Seymour. Whiting didnt play stand off on Saturday, Gentle said after the game that he was used as a 2nd second rower on the left edge, this was a tactic used to exploit Leeds in defence. Seymour effectively played the game with no halfback partner. I imagine Whiting will start at 13 against London, as I dont expect Westerman to be fit, Russell should keep his place, he looks very sharp and I'd be disappointed if we didnt make the most of him been here.

If we have Russell for a month,I'd expect Gentle to put Horne in the half's for our next match.

Russell has been loaned to us as cover for McKinnon leaving, so if McKinnon hadn't left we wouldn't even be having this conversation. The loan is not just one-way traffic, apart from helping us out, it is also to give Russell more 1st team experience and he's not going to get that by warming a bench spot. I can't see Gentle being so disrespectful to only play him once in the four weeks/three games the initial loan spell covers. I would also expect that if he plays as well in the next two games as he has in the first, then we'll be opening discussion to keep him for longer.

same here
Russel did too well to be dropped imo, especially seeing as he'd trained with us 3 times

My thoughts exactly

I think Horne is earmarked as full back for next season, so may slot back to SO when he returns. I doubt we will risk going the rest of the season with one half back. If Seymour got injured, then we would be left with Ellis and/or Nicklas. I recon we are looking for a new half back for next season to partner Seymour.

Playing Whiting as an extra backrower worked very well, but it should only be used if we have an injury to one of the half backs.

If Russell goes back in 3 weeks though I would expect he will go with Horney then, which only leaves Whiting, Nicklas/Ellis anyway, so back to square 1.

I think we will try and keep Russell for as long as we can.

Would be good if we could.

Who knows, we may grow on him!!

I just can’t see Tomkins wanting to go from FB into the halves.

Haha, it's catching on then.