PopTart wrote:
That makes a big difference to our pack.
What it gives us is five genuinely big units in Atoni, Whitbread, Proctor, Butler and Eseh and maybe one more to come.
Combined with grafters like Pitts, Ashurst, Batty, Borden and Crowther that’s a decent pack.
Nine is covered by Hood, Bowes, Kay and Smith.
6-7 by Lino, Smith and Gaskell and Kay in a huge emergency.
Tbh the only position I see without an obvious back up is FB. Though you get the feeling Hall could probably do a bang up job if needed.
I also believe that decent backs are fairly available at present, either on loan or permanently, unlike forwards.
Nobody is pretending we have the strongest squad in SL, we clearly don’t, it it’s ok. The trick is do Applegarth and Ford have the nouse to mould them into something more.