^^^^^This. I’m looking forward to see how all players react under this coaching regime. 5 drives and a kick did my head in never mind the players, not everyone is suited to being a meathead battering ram

Welease Woger.

Seriously, when some props in our game now are near eighteen stone, in one, if not the most difficult of positions, Massi is just a young buck, and has going on ten years to develop, same with Jack Brown, I agree we should see more of Brown, but talk of releasing Massi is ridiculous, yes he’s got his limitations, and probably playing in a team which as a whole underperformed on a regular basis didn’t help, If possible it would also be good to see Beniek brought back into the fold, so Massi , Brown, and Benny can share the load in the absence of Tag, and any problems with Bowden.

If this is true perhaps, you can stop slating Houghton and Shaul.

...and maybe add Jones to his list as well.

Shaul, Houghton, Jones, Taylor all start again in my eyes. Never understood the love in and hype, but we all start again. maybe a few posters would be best served forgetting the past too?

I know it may only be talk so far from Andy Last as he's not been able to put the players through a game but I've been impressed in what he has said so far. Its clear he & Purtill have seen things that just haven't been working with the players and as such has said he is changing things but keeping it simple and understandable. I like the fact he wants each individual player to be responsible and know their role but also be responsible as a collective. I am quite excited to see what difference it has made to the the way we play with the changes he and Purtill have implemented so far.
He certainly sounds like he wants to have structure to their play both in defence and attack but also flair and support play which has been lacking for far too long. Hopefully Last & Purtill can deliver on that, also pleasing to hear him mention about the importance of improving and increasing our line speed in defence.

Agree with you. Having seen the games yesterday it’s clear we will have to adopt
A different playing style.
If we don’t , then the 6 again restart will kill us.

I pretty agree with you have wrote.

The only thing I dont agree with is the Masi appearances, I don't think it's fair to take an average over 5 years as the first two years he was 20/21 and was establishing himself in a superb pack (2016/17), probably the best in the league. I think it's a better indication yo to look at how many games ge played in 2018/19, which averages over 20.

And he had a bad time last year, nothing to do with injuries, so missed a number of months.

I agree but we do have athletic forwards and should be suited to this faster game
It looks to me that Albo will quite rightly get the 6 shirt and i hope we also go for speed and have Ratu on the wing.
One thing i would do is have Connor on the bench.Move Jamie Shaul to 9 if its not working for Houghton or he is given a rest and then move Connor to full back.
Shaul could be devastating in a new role at 9 and i can see clubs using faster elusive players in this role in the future.

To be fair I forgot about the time he had off due to a bereavement so maybe abit unfair me stating 10 game average over five years, I'd say he has to show something this season or I'd still let him go and have Brown given the game time.

Harsh as it is, that's just the nature of the beast.

If a teams discipline isn't great then the bigger lads will tire.

Best play smart and our props will be fine.

Can we play smart and keep the penalty count against us down

Shaul would get monstered at 9, expect to see him have plenty of dummy half runs though

Why?
Its now just another half back position.
Dummy half runs is exactly why he would be outstanding.