Why did we finish there in 2008? NO 7! NO ORGANISER! Washy isn't the answer to this, just he's been a lot better at 6 than anyone else who's been there since 2007! Also i said alongside Long or Tansey not in place of!

Superb he certainly wasn't !! Do you actually remember our performances of '08 and where we finished in the final table ??

Really, Hall has played well at 6??? I remember him being fairly avergae there but not playing well. We have moaned like hell about him not playing centre and now we have the chance people want to put him somewhere else. Let him play centre, the SO role should be either Turner or Washy, Washy has played there lots of times and can do a decent job as he has shown in the past. Turner has experience there but not at SL level but this is why we signed him.

Personally I think Agar will go with Washy and Tansey at 6/7 and I would be happy with that.

Calm down - you'll wear out your ! key.

He's arguably been better than a badly out-of-form Horne since he returned from injury. But only arguably. Before that he was pretty much the only player we used there so being the best wasn't much of a challenge. IMO the [ibest[/i player we used at 6 while Horne was out was Hall, but he only got a run there in one or two games so I certainly wouldn't put him forward as 'the answer' - just a more halfback-style answer than Washy will ever be.

I remember it differently, but as I say elsewhere it was only one or two games and I certainly wouldn't suggest that he make a permanent career move.


I just don't think that Washy's performances at 6 have been anything special. He's too slow and not creative enough. Turner is, as you say, an unknown quantity but didn't do that well against Sheffield by all accounts. He'd still be my choice at 6 ahead of Washy.


That would be less than optimal IMO. Although I'm afraid that he might just stick with Horne and Washy, which would be a disaster waiting to happen.

Who is the U-21's Half back???????

Totally agree. If he chooses the Horne/Washbrook pairing again for Friday, he deserves all of the criticism that he will inevitably get. Turner is unknown to most of us but he must surely offer more than the other recent "failed" HB pairings.

Washbrook at 6 didnt work in 2008 and 2009..........Hate to say it but Horne has looked lost since Cooke defected.

Washbrook at 6 didn't work and Horne at 7 is even less effective. RA has many critics among the fans, some of which are just waiting for him to fail so that they can say "I told you so". It is up to him now to show us that he is a decent coach and that he actually has some idea of how to get the best from our squad.

Well of the two Washy has done more at 6 than Hall, although he has had more games.

The thing is Washy tackles well, can kick fairly well and has a decent step and decent hands. However he is not an organiser and the problem is neither is Horne. Tansey with Washy would be much better than Washy with Horne.

The fact is though if fit Horne will get selected as he has not done enough wrong as yet. Even then I would play Horne at 6 with Tansey at 7. Okay Horne was average yesterday but so were many others and as usual we always seem to have one scapegoat. The team never offered the halves anything to work with yesterday and whilst it needed one of them to grab the game even when Tansey tried he ran out of options too.

The team has to take responsibility not individuals, win as a team and lose as a team.

Lee Williams or Pat Smith

I wouldn't bother Paul, seems nobody truly remembers 08'.
We were awful because we had no 7 on the pitch to compliment washy who played very well that year. We wasn't even that bad in 2008, it was injuries that cost us that year, we were certainly a lot better than 2009 were they just didn't have a clue.

Or, possibly, they have a different opinion of what they saw to you.

Just a thought.

Yes, it's otherwise known as the stupid opinion!

He played 21 times at stand off that year, we won 7 of them.