Really, intersting that this person would need to lie about it then. Makes no sense whatsoever.

So you reckon that Meli would have bagged more tries if Hall had been on the pitch?

Part of the reason Meli scored so many was due to Turner being out of position.

I am still really undecided about Hall, there is no doubt he has natural flair with ball in hand and his defence has improved over the last two years. His biggest problem is the slgihtest thing seems to effect his confidence and his decision making both in defence and attack leaves a lot to be desired. I am starting to doubt that he has the mental toughness as he keeps making the same mistakes over and over.

If the highlights are anything to go by he also scored two from forward passes and one from being offside at the kick.

But that's not the point.

The statement was that things are [ialways[/i worse when Hall plays. Regardless of any other contributory factors.

Maybe he/she misheard

I know the person i was speaking to at the weekend would deffo know the truth

And this is when he needs the mental toughness when the supporters are getting on his back. Does he walk away for a contract elsewhere or does he knuckle down, finally learn those lessons and prove us all wrong so that he can stay at the club that I believe he personally wants to play for?

That's a fair assessment, Paul, and I share pretty much the same concerns. The point I keep making though is that Hall gets flak for absolutely everything that goes wrong on his side of our defence, whether it's his fault or not.

I think it may have gone to far to be rescued TBH. A large section of fans have decided that he's a poor player and always will be, and history shows that those opinions tend to be difficult to change. You've even got normally sensible posters on here making statements about how he's Championship standard and will never be anything better, when he's had our best tries-per-game ratio in two out of the last three seasons despite playing out of position most of the time.

I think a fresh start somewhere else might be best for him.

If we can get him cheap then we should keep him imo.

No one can question he has a lot of talent, and I think his defence has improved. However he still takes too many bad options and makes bad reads. This is somewhat expected of a player of his age, but he has been around the first team long enough now for his decision making to have started to improve, and I don't really think it has.

I tend to agree but my heart wants a different outcome.

And never will under Agar ,Best for both parties if he moved on .

I don't think agar is fully to blame, if at all.

How's Joe Donkin going? Seems to be getting a good write up for the u20's, could he take Halls full time squad place?