Any 7 can play 6, not all 6's can play 7.

Its not Briscoes fault the service to him is/was poor, you have a player of that calibre on the wing and very rarely use him, it's a tragedy, no wonder he has left.

You have clearly replaced him with two players coming in, upto his standard, I seriously doubt.

Isn't Miller a 7 anyway?? He was brought in as a 7.

Horne plays his best rugby at 6 anyway rather then 7 imo.

Pretty much agree with all of that. Much will swing on any halfback coming in, the hoped improvement of Miller with a full preseason, and Paleaaesina (or one of Green/Bowden really kicking on). In the case of the latter, I think like you that our front row possibly isn't that much weaker than last season, but neither am I confident it will be an improvement, and certainly not by enough in an area that I think was a weakness for us this year. Unless somebody does really step up (including Watts having a better year), I think we may still have a bit of a problem there.

Morning, Sandy.

Certainly lots of gambles, if it pays off we could surprise a few people (including myself).

Totally agree with you regarding Paea and O'Meley!

Massive loss of experience in the forwards, massive!

In reality, Feka just ain't going to cut it, it will take something nobody has seen in 3 years to become a good player again, I seriously doubt he can pull it off.

Millers defence also looked really poor at times.

I think with the loss of international/former international players the loss of experience could be a real problem.

Yep, what i'm saying if we sign another player (Chishom, Siejka, Rankin) they're all 6's. If Miller gets injured we haven't got a 7.

Its all about value for money and did we get full value from Briscoe the last couple of years? With him being one of our highest earners I very much doubt that. We have signed 2 replacements who will take up about half on what Briscoe earnt towards the salary cap.

Well why would they pass to him if he's not on form an has a centre that wasn't upto scratch either. Instead they passed to a centre wing partnership that was on form, who turned out to be in the dream team.

2 Players we've replaced him with. Tom Biggs Rugby Union international who has followed FC most his life. Knows the 13 man game good plus being a winger isn't much of a change. Second Talanoa, big strong player who looks quite good.

Yes Briscoe is a good player and we have lost an international. But for the replacements we have for him i feel we've done some good business.

More worried about ability than experience and we still have plenty experience in the forwards with Paea, Watts (time to step up), Whiting, Feka, Ellis, Heremia and Westerman.

No good having exeperience like Galea if they are rubbish on the field.

Miller defence does need work, but the best halfs last season (Dobson and Chase) cant defend, this isnt a big concern IMO, he is only 20 and will get better and stronger.

Like me you have no idea about Feka, he seems to have worked hard for one last chance and sport is full of examples of players who have made great comebacks, in fact we have one in our squad called Aaron Heremia.

A lot will depend on what we do with Westerman, Radfords already said he'd going to change his role in the side.

I'd just like to see a more attacking style of play and like Sheldon says, use players correctly. We have some very exciting young backs, so lets get the ball to them and see what they can do.

I feel Gentles safe style rugby and gameplan didn't help players like Miller, Lineham and Westerman, hopefully this will improve under Radford.

A rugby Union international? Come off it! I don't class Josh Hodgson as an international, why on earth would you with Biggs? Plus when was these clips of Talanoa when he looked good?

Its another position on the pitch for FC that has gone backwards.

just read article in the sun saying hull are targeting Jordan rankin.thats one we can rule out then.