Re: If Hetherington stays true to his word.. : Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:24 pm
You're right - neither Reed or Widdop will be in SL any time soon. Reed BTW will probably move to the backrow before too long as he sometimes gets burned for speed.As for Williams, unless its part of a plan to have him move to fullback (with no evidence that he can actually play there, despite what anyone says) or BJB to fullback, its the sort of nonsense signing that would have excited me when I was 15 but now leaves me completely cold.
IMO the focus before anything else has to be on the pack. A couple of aggressive hard-running and hard-tackling forwards (one prop, one backrower) are exactly what this team needs. We have far too many average forwards IMO, and whilst happy with any 2 of our current batch of second rowers or props in the 17, all our 'depth' does is add more of the same.
Sadly I suspect that there aren't many decent available within our price range either within SL or from the NRL. If we fall apart this year, it's probably way too late for a major overhaul for 2013 anyway.