McShane fills the "impact" role off the bench much better than either Diskin or Buderus IMO, so the two hooker rotation is viable for 2011 and beyond if it's McShane + 1.

If you give me a choice of keeping one of either Diskin or Buderus, then on current form it would be Diskin every time.

I'd rather let Buderus go back to Aus and retain Diskin than retain 32 year old Buderus and let Diskin sign for a rival.

I'm still not convinced Buderus has been better for Leeds than Diskin so far, and in the longer term we'd get more out of Diskin.

Besides, it's time for McShane to dabble in the first team now - he's shown he's capable the few times he's been called upon.

I watched McShane v Wigan in the U20's at Orrell a few weeks back. He was awful. Logan Tomkins ran him ragged.

That's because all Wigan's youngsters are eight-armed Octomen from a different planet to every other youth system in the country, especially the Tomkins family.

According to Wigan fans anyway.

Well we've seen him have many great games more often than not and most rate him highly so i wouldn't get too carried away with him having a bad game.
Saying that any opportunity to "big up" the superhuman Pie acadamy can't be missed can it RG?
Hopefully they'll all realise their undoubted potential and go on to do it in SL and for England.

Have we?

I'd like to see a good deal more of him at 1st grade level somewhere, before annointing him the next big thing.

why was mcshane given such a brief 1st team cameo the other week?

looked livelier than either buderus or diskin & probably could be a better scrum half than burrow too @ the moment

It was an overall opinion taking into account his brief 1st team games and reserve(u20) outings which RG mentioned he'd been poor in.
I'm not annointing him the "next big thing" either but IF he continues his development and performs to his undoubted potential he WILL be the next big thing that the Leeds acadamy has produced imo and i for one look forward to seeing him serve our club hopefully for many years ala the "Golden generation".