We seem to specialise in "almost" centres:
Yeaman - good strength and can run in a straight line and fend, but struggles to put his winger away
Whiting - good reader of the game, but lead boots
Hall - good body swerve and opportunist but positional nightmare
Turner - bit early to tell, promising signs
Briscoe - probably the best of the lot but being cast as a winger now

Can't imagine any of them worrying an opposition coach that much as a "must stop" player when gameplanning.

Just on Radford, thought he did well again today. He seems to be literally throwing himself into tackles, like it's his last hurrah.

Yeaman in the back row

I'm more of a Yeaman fan than most. But he's a senior player now and should be looking to lead an inexperienced back line from the front. He just seems slow to anticipate opportunities.

Radford and Lauaki to play prop along with Moa, Dowes and O'Meley. Manu, Tickle, Yeamo and Burnett our 2nd rowers for next season. Focus on recruitment to the backs. Mainly a high quality half back that can stay fit.

Huddersfield's choice to accomodate Brough, Drew, Robinson and Brown vs ours of Long and Horne is interesting. Much more depth in the creative department there.

Yeaman is not, and never will be, an SL quality 2nd row forward.

Add Brett Hodgson to that list yesterday and they had 5 thinking, skillfull, experienced players to our Sean Long and that was essentially the difference . Lunt also has a bit of flair at loose forward and they varied their attack. Lets face it they should have scored at least two more tries possibly three whilst we took just about all of the opportunities we created.

There are question marks of one sort or another over all of our backs with Yeaman the only one playing in his correct position. Moving him would be madness and he's no second rower anyway.

Thats an assumption isnt it based on no evidence?

Compare theirs though to ours of:
Tansey, Horne, Long, Berro, Houghton we shouldnt be far different. (Hodgson would be the main one)

I guess the main difference is that Robinson, Brough and Brown are all fit most of the time.

It's based on the evidence of his size and performances ever since he broke into the first team. He doesn't have the power, weight, or work-rate to make it as a second row in the modern game.

TBH..it was games like yesterday when Longy needed him, we need more options with less pressure on Longy, Tansey is creative but makes some silly options which I think may lessen as he becomes more experienced.

With 3 creative players and our pack we could really rock, yesterday we could have kicked on in the 2nd half imo, because when Longy is not clicking Horne can take the stage..