LOL - good point, but 2 players dont make a team. If Sinfield and Burrow were playing for Hunslet would Hunslet be in any better position of where they are now in the league.....Who knows.



I think my point was misjudged. Eaton doesnt want Vickery, my opinion was he wouldnt want a half fit BJB. But to be fair there are many players he would love to have.

Also, next season: Do you think Baldwinson, Sutcliffe and Sunley for example would get in the Hunslet side? Hmmmm not sure they will - Hunslet can only have a max of 5 either dual reg or loan players in the team. So assuming Keinhorst, Hood, Singleton are still at Leeds next season that only leaves 2 spots.

Anyway I was digressing - good to have BJB back and if he is pulling the stops out all well and good. He looks the fittest water carrier in SL - after Clarkson of course.

Is that Richie Moore ?

It's very easy to sit after the event at a keyboard with the benefit of hindsight and I don't necessarily disagree. I thought Adamson's decision to play at Cardiff was selfish, from a selfish player, in a position where we had depth and the coach should have shown more fortitude.

However, it must be very difficult to separate emotion from such decisions. The coach works with these boys. They share elation and desperation together. That togetherness and bond is essential to achieve the successes we have. So, if an old warrior like Peacock tells the coach he can play and wants to play the coach will, of course, listen to the doctors but he may be inclined to listen more closely to the player. And, after all, Peacock will know how his body feels better than the doctors. Peacock appeared to come through unscathed last week.

So, what I am saying is, it's not as black and white as either of you make out.

If Peacock is effectively allowed to pick himself and defy the medical team and McDermott is almost powerless to stop him then why didn't he play against Hull or Wigan or Saints? We all know Peacock would've wanted to play those games yet he didn't.

Could the 'players pick themselves' actually be agenda b*ll*cks?

Surely not, but can anybody explain otherwise?

I guess theres a difference between can't walk injured, and coming back early once most of the ain has gone, and said injury could be strapped up, and pain dealt with in some way

I'd imagine there are a lot of ex-players suffering with impaired joint mobility now in part due to the game generally (an occupational hazard) but in some cases the effects will have been worsened as a result of taking to the field 'needled up' to get them out there when probably they shouldn't have.

Like the time in Origin when Michael De Vere got his head stapled back together while still out on the field. The macabre images only enhanced still further when the gun got stuck and refused to disengage, leaving the trainer trying to pull it away from the NSW wingers eyebrow and that was in full view of the watching millions, let alone what went on under the stands to keep the players out there.