NickyKiss wrote:
There’s a real lack of top class options in this country that’s for sure. We’ve wanted Watts for years as fans but even he doesn’t look quite at his best currently. It’ll be somebody from Down Under if we sign anybody this season. I just think it’s so important Lam keeps driving those props we do have to perform and if anybody has an iffy game, give guys like Clark and Kilner a go and make the lads earn their shirts.
Penalties and daft stuff is the thing with Watts. He's been top 20 in the league for penalties every year bar one since 2015. I think he's suited being at clubs where a penalty doesn't lose you a semi or final, and I think it's why we haven't seen him in an England shirt. I'd love someone with his attacking talent without the pens though!
The props from down under seem to come over with not enough tread left on the tyres, I'd honestly be looking to the Championship. There are plenty lads who get released from academies at 19, a decade before their peak as props, who would come for a low wage and maybe be the next Hill/Walmsley/Peacock (I know Peacock didn't come from the Championship but he did debut after he would have been released under the current system).