Credit to Sykes last night. He certainly looked the part at 6.

Whether he can do it week in, week out for the full season would be my concern. However, I'm certainly not adverse to giving him a go.

Back-up in that plan. If Sykes and Deacon could play like they did last night, then i'd have no problem with our halves next year. 1 or 2 games a season isn't good enough from our captain though.

He looks a different player at 6, and with a useful boot seems wasted in the centres. We seemed to look much more dangerous in attack last night, I'm certain some of that is attributal to Sykes.

pretty much all the games where weve clicked this year sykes has been playing in standoff position. Offers us a different kicking option to deacs, whose a bit too predictable in his kicking options these days imo.

Also they can move him around a bit in the line making him harder to target when he's defending

He seems to have more confidence in defence and puts more big hits in