Horne and berro where our better players behind sam moa tonight.

Personally i think washbrook's a good squad player and was no worse then anyone else tonight and dowes gets through a lot work.

I think Lauaki would do better under a good coach. Its just his defence that lets him down.

Id keep Dowes and Horne and get rid of the rest.

Hall definetely, disagree about Horne he was one of the best players last week and tonight, get him playing with Longy be a great combo, he was the only one that backed Moa up tonight, Dowes he could go, Cusack going anyway, would let Washy go, which pains me as watching him since the start of his career i thought we had a future captain,
but more importantly get shut of Agar

you'd have thought with the clearout at the end of 2009 , the rest of the team would have turn it up a notch not the case with certain personel.

do we forget last week that horne set up all but 1 of the tries, some people need a reality check, we need a good 7 to replace/back up long next season, we've seen glimpses of how well horney plays with long.

getting rid of players under contract for next year isn't going to happen!

hall, calderwood and cusack will go

I'd agree that Horne should stay. Part of his salary isn't counted on the cap anyway and if he stays fit he's a useful player.

something people seemt to forget or don't realise when saying he takes up a large chunk of the cap

I always find these threads odd when no one offers available replacements.

He only frees up 50k and Yeamo would be eligible to free that up next season. Not that i want rid of Horne just clearing up the amount he saves us issue.

Agree with all of those. Until we get rid of Cusack and Dowes, our pack will never live up to its potential. As for half-backs, well as much as I hate to say it, we have never had a consistant half-back combination (thats good enough) since Cooke left. We rely to heavily on Richard Horne and in all honesty, he just aint that good. Signing Sean Long was never going to be the answer, he's with us for two years and in that time he will sit out more games than he will play (probably by some distance) and that is just no good to us. As for Craig Hall, well, the less said the better. The kid had potential, but his confidence has taken a knock one too many times imo.

Agree with that, halfback is our stumbling block. Last year i asked if Sean Long was our answer and everyone told me i was talking

Did you know he was going to dislocate his elbow?

Briggs (fev) -Washbrook
Prescott (Wig) - Cusack
LMS - Dowes

Who's briggs? Half back I presume?

Yes , 6 I think .