These are the same people that blamed Best, Blacklock and Sing. The fact our defence is sucked in so tight leaving the winger exposed seems irrelevant to some. That said Hall makes poor decisions when the line is in good order, shooting out for instance and that's where the criticism is warranted. Also with ball in hand he seems to lack concentration and again makes bad decisions. He often will drop a seemingly good pass quite inexplicably and will often try and throw a pass that is clearly not on. The problem then is his head tends to go down and he seems like he is feeling sorry for himself.

I expected more from him this season but it is just not happening, I would not be upset to see him go. If we sign a centre to play alongside Yeaman and we have Whiting and Turner too then I don't see the point of keeping Hall unless he can find some consistent form.

Just for clarity, like.

Possibly, possibly not. It was a general observation: our defence often looks much weaker when Hall plays. He is a poor defender.

He'll never be any better because of his defence, which has shown little (if any) improvement since his debut. I don't think it's an insult to a player to say they're championship standard - that's still a higher standard than the vast majority will achieve. I just don't think he'll ever be up to the standards required to defend consistently well in a SL side. If that makes my opinion 'not sensible' in your eyes, then so be it.

I have to agree with all of that to be honest

Constantly under immense pressure due to the goldfish bowl that is FC fans whom blame his for everything that goes wrong in defence!
He is a much much better pleayer than most give credit.
He HAS had an offer and we await the outcome .

When whiting's on the wing it's the centre's fault. I distinctly heard turner shout "let go of it" to whiting which resulted in meli's 1st try

Are you sure there wasnt a 'DON'T' before that JTP?

Two of those four tries , Meli should have been banged into row z , He was shown the touch line and quietly obliged.

You may not consider championship standard to be an insult. Others clearly do and use the term in that manner. From what I've seen of most championship backs Hall is clearly of a higher overall standard, and his scoring return against SL defences tends to back that up.

His defence is a concern because after an improvement it seems to have dipped back again and he's making the same mistakes. How much of that is down to an inability or unwillingness to learn I have no idea, hence I am not about to judge that under no circumstances will it ever improve. Such certainty seems misplaced IMO.

I'd like to see him stay, knuckle down, and develop into the player he has the potential to be. I realise that he's failed to do that since his debut with us (although I think there has been some small improvement) but there have been some extenuating circumstances. However, as I've said elsewhere, I think he may be better served starting somewhere else with a clean slate in a different and possibly more settled setup.