And on Friday last week!!

Yes, do apologise. It was mentioned by the commentators, hope everything is ok.

Surely that will be Sharp dropped for next week then.

yep

Damn

congratulations to the Whiting household

looks like he was missed today ?

I bloody hope so! Look alot better with Whiting there.

Thought it was today bud,whatever,heres to the baby.

A poor display by Sharp today but he wasn't the only one.

Presumably the people who want him dropped also want all the other under-performers dropped.

no because sharp consistantly makes mistakes and is a liability, yeh other players where poor but are normally very reliable ffs

So half the reserves are playing next week then?

Briscoe dropped more high balls than Sharp and also produced a stupid offload and messed up chasing kicks back but he seem to escape threads about him.

Sharp's biggest error today was the missed tackle on Hodgson near the end.

To be fair Paul,Briscoe is one of our better players,who on his day can be outstanding.No one today can deny he had a horror show.Happens to even the best.

Whiting became a father last night. Congrats to him. Am I being really harsh, though, in saying that he should have been on the pitch today regardless?

Our right [iside [/ihas been an issue for years. It's never been sorted properly, although we look stronger there in defence with Whiting and Gleeson. Attacking-wise Sharp is strong, but his positioning and reading of the situation in defence is poor. It's not all him, though. Gleeson since his arrival has shown how a stong centre can shore up a wing. Today he was hurt after 10 minutes or so and didn't we know it. Back to square one.

I think Sharp - if not hung, drawn and quartered by the impatient faithful in the short term - has the talent to be great in the long term. But for now he needs nurturing and confidence building. And that means a rock solid centre and second row working with him.

Seem to remember a certain England game when we all (rightly) rushed to Briscoe's defence when he was left hight and dry by Hall and Shenton. I can't help feeling a little bit like this now for Sharp.

Sharp's not strong enough now to defend that wing. Just let's not make the mistake of lambasting him so much now that he never will be in the future. Because I'm convinced he could be great.