Ask our ex Head Coach , if he'd swap Evalds & McShane, for Sneyd & Shaul/Houghton




Move Connor to 7, Evalds to 1, McShane at 9..
Also, replace the fitness & conditioning team, freshen the joint up..
Job done

Absolutely - see us in 2016. We had a good squad who stayed fit. The only long term injury was Jack Logan and that meant Yeaman became the regular centre. We played 35 games that season, Taylor and Houghton played all but one, Sneyd and Bowden missed two each, Shaul, Watts and Washbrook all played 30+ games, Talanoa, Michaels, Manu, Fonua, Mini and Yeamo all played 28-29.

Once you go beyond our starting 17 players the size of our replacement forwards go drastically down.we have 3 forwards that are under 6 foot and only weighing between 13 to 15 and a half stone. In my opinion if you want to be in the top 4 you need bigger forwards. At times we have 2 small forwards on the field at once and we have no go forward ?

Forget the squad our strongest 17 isn't good enough and certainly not creative enough, our halfbacks and hookers have been poor, that's our biggest problem.

I'd love a couple more big forwards, but unless our pivots improve we will wont challenge.

I'm recruitment has to be on this area and not more props.

With no scrums and six again, you need pace, fitness and creativity, we have very little of all these.

The 6 again rule needs scrapping. It is not applied consistently, and is quite often used for minor infringements, when the ref would not otherwise have awarded a penalty.
I'm not saying this with B&W specs on either. I have watched a lot of RL and seen it awarded, and more annoyingly, not awarded in a very random way. The best way to improve SL would be to go to two refs on the field, but with the dearth of good officials, that is very unlikely to happen.

Imagine Child’s and Kendall on the pitch all the game, and Thaler as the video ref.

Six again is an unmonitored excuse to punish, like the refs personal joker card.

I hope next season we return to a semblance of normality,

Any legs to the Sneyd to Cas rumours?

I saw someone on twitter a few months ago saying Eden, Sene-Lefao and Shenton as a 3 player swap for Sneyd, can't see that happening though. Sene-Lefao would be a useful player but don't think we'd want Shenton and Eden?

Most know my thoughts on Sneyd, but it shouldn't happen unless we have a replacement, which would be hard with limited quota spors available and not many decent available British halfbacks.

Cas have 2 better halfbacks plus Richardson.

But Radford does seem to want to recruit from Hull.

jeez hope thats an early april fool joke

Can't see a lot of Cas fans been happy if that happens, they seem to have a massive chip on their shoulders when it comes to Sneyd.