I've been to all of the U20's curtain raisers so far this season, I think we have a few good young props that could make the grade such as Thompson, Walker & Forster, they all have great workrate and endevour similar to Johnson. Forster is the one they think very highly of but he's a bit injury prone.

It is, which is why I wouldn't write him off as finished as a player, but when you've got younger players performing better than you, they are going to be offered contracts first, and in these salary cap times with an U20's rather than a reserves, it means you generally get let go.

And I didn't think his performance last night against our much weakened pack did your argument much good either.

He worked hard last night but got hammered everytime he had the ball.

Letting him go won't come back to bite us on the bum.

And once again, this thread wasn't intended to analyse Sts decision to let him go!

He's a Sts product and he's been great for Wakefield so far this year!

He played last night in a front row that was missing Korkidas, had Paul King returning after months being out, Higgins in only his 2nd game after stepping up from Championship rugby and Amor who is on loan, doing well but is also stepping up from U20s at Leeds.

Had Johnson been playing for Sts and McGennis for Wakefield their roles and performances would likely be reversed!

You've got some great young players coming through in all positions and the club is obviously doing something right in terms of recruiting and developing junior talent.

We're grateful that Johnson became surplus at Sts because when gambling on a young player the one thing you can count on from some clubs is that their juniors are well coached in the fundamentals of the game and have the correct attitude, this seems to be true of Sts.

Good luck for the rest of your season barring when we next meet.

True.


To be honest, I wasn't taking any notice of Wakey players last night. I was too busy watching our own to see whether we'd taken heed of Royce's challenge to focus for the full 80 minutes! I decided that we had.

To be fair to PJ, he's obviously doing alright on the whole and when you look at him, he's still pretty small for a prop. Given that, as he gets older and puts on weight, he'll probably turn into a fair contender.