yes but you'd need an old head like Mick Worrall to lead the pack.......

Alongside Steve Parrish & Neil Battye?

They would set the platform for a quality half back like Chris Vasey to run amock.

You'll have to take that up with Tony Smith. If I had been the coach I'd have chosen Smith over Tansey in that position (based on their respective performances on the field) every day of the week. Of Course as the coach I'd have a whole lot more information to consider rather than just the eighty minutes showtime and that would also need taking into consideration. Perhaps I'd have never selected Smith again..... perhaps.




An International wingman (selected by Tony Smith) shouldn't really be unproven in the position. Who is Hall's competition for the left wing spot? Smith - (busy covering other positions when he's not been injured), eh Watkins/Gibson/Broughton... no I'm struggling to find someone, anyone. Hall has cemented the position and let no-one down, which is just as well given the options available to the club.




Gibson has not developed physically and appears prone to injury absences (currently on the latest in a long line) and Watkins has not shown the form or consistency to mount a serious challenge. A view seemingly backed up by reports at reserve level. I sense a player who has been pressurised by unrealistic expectations at this point in his fledgeling career. His time will come but it's not his time yet. I like what Huddersfield have done with Greg McNally and feel Watkins would benefit from a similar move into the Championship to continue his education.



In essence the same thing. Tony Rea exposed it as a weakness, an area where Leeds were vulnerable, was he wrong? Why did coach McClennan break up the goto partnership on the left if the right was already neutral. That would be a truely bizarre decision on his part.



The NRL is full of talented centres. Soliola would have been a blinding capture. Leeds targetting of him says more than I could about the need to recruit a right centre. Where they fell down was not looking elsewhere when the Soliola deal fell through. Identifying an area that needed attention and then failing to fill it was a failing of the off season recruitment needs of the squad.



They wouldn't need to be that wonderful to be considerably better than the four options Leeds have at right centre this season. Given the remit from the Chairman to find one I'd be disappointed to come back empty handed.

Add in a couple of world class union converts like Sateki Tuipolotu and Japie Mulder and I think you have a world class team right there.

Some very intelligent perspicacious guys on here...at the risk of being sesquipedalian, it's always a pleasure to read such well weighted considered profundities.

The pleasure's all mine.

Note to self: give that nantwich chap a wide berth the next time you see him.

Too true my learned friend. Not like the Sinny threads, they are ended by simply putting... "Sinny iz well fit innit" i prefer these tete et tetes between G1 and the mighty TVOC, you could choose worse to listen to on here....

And me being a Vulcan (nothing to do with Spock) fan too

used to be my highlight when visiting Church Fenton airshows in my youth

david heselwood? morvin edwards?

At risk of looking a complete geek...I walked under the wing of a Vulcan the other week (amongst various other aeroplanes). Smaller than I'd have imagined, and smaller than I remembered it being when I saw one at an early 80s air show.

My mistake, a big gay bear hug next time I see you then, as long as I don't have to listen to that potty mouth of yours. I just presumed they were all swear words previously.





She always looked bigger in her element than on the ground to me. Which museum were you walking round?

One of: East Midlands, Cosford, Coventry, Hendon, Duxford, Norwich, Newark, Sunderland, Carlisle or East Fortune?

[size=75The others to be found at Waddington, Woodford, Southend, Wellesbourne and Bruntingthorpe are less accessible to the public so I'm guessing it were non of those. [/size

Duxford.

Somebody had told me it was free and it was sixteen frickin quid. I rushed round in less than 2 hours and still found I'd missed whole hangars.

I was into warplanes in the late 70s and early 80s so it was a trip down memory lane. There were very few aircraft I couldn't name aside from a few that entered service after WW2 but had been pensioned off before, say, 1970 as the bits that interested me were the then (70s/80s) current aircraft plus the WW2 ones. That was odd as I hadn't given them much thought in 25 years (though I suppose I am prone to spotting errors in war films so perhaps should have known I'd retained a bit of info).

It left me interested enough to consider going to an airshow but didn't reignite any desire to read a book on them or look anything up on the interweb. I may go back in 25 years.

I know we're going off topic here and I won't persist....but you're a man after my own heart (RL and WW2/post WW2 aircraft). Women too by any chance ?? Please tell me not you're not gay ( a la TVOC

with his offer of a [igay hug[/i ) and it might just be destiny that we meet....

Actually TVOC would be welcome too...nothing against consenting gay guys. No religion for me vindicating my bigoted prejudices under a cloak of shameful 'respectability'...getting off topic here again, but isn't religion a eupthemism for superstition.... and who did create the creator ??

XJ824. A very clean example of those remaining and well cared for. No great history for her but she did spend six years out in Akrotiri, so she got plenty of sun on her back during that detachment.

The return to the air of the Vulcan aside airshows generally are pretty disappointing these days with airforces hard pressed to supply airframes for static display let alone flying items. The RAF role demo though is excellent and well worth a viewing. The variety and exotica has gone so it's all a bit samey for me these days.



Despite the evidence to the contrary it's all a front.

Nothing more than fingering on a first date.

you let me suck you off!

Only because of your pretty smile...

And here's the reply I wish I'd have made yesterday:

Except Soliola is a left centre and much more likely to end up at St Helens rather than Leeds.

Is that the place at Baginton? Just round the corner from me, it's never occurred to me to go and look.

Wellesbourne is pretty near me as well, closer inspection reveals that Joe Public can visit that one readily enough this June.

Re Coventry, the museum is attached to the airport at Bagington. From memory their example is XL360 which was one of the B2's modified to carry the nuclear Blue Steel missile. She's been there since around 1983, stored outside though so she's seen better days. Re-named the City of Coventry with that and a crest added to the nose.

The Wellsbourne Mountford Vulcan (XM655) holds a couple of open days each year and is one of the three Vulcans remaining that are in ground running condition. If it helps I can fully recommend visiting one such event if you get the opportunity and have a mind to attend. Likely as not it will be taxied by a current Vulcan display pilot and was used extensively as an instructional airframe for pilot training while tvoc's (XH55icon_cool.gif was being prepared for first flight.

Chillax fellow rhinos fans, he was with me and another mate who IS a Cas fan!!

He is Leeds through and through and he is so dedicated to the club he won't leave, garunteed, million percent!!

G;ad we didn't bother signing him then



Clearly Saints didn't have the faith in their untested, young 21 year old stand off that you did.

I like having a good discussion with TVOC. I like to think I am helping him see more than just the stats when it comes to rugby



Sometimes, I'll argue the contrary even if I agree with him, just for the sake of a quality debate, but don't let him know that

Always makes for interesting reading, The all knowing eye and the wise old owl. Would not however want to be stuck in a lift....