Quote ="childofthenorthern"Sheriffe needs to improve, especially defensively, if he wants to get anywhere near a new contract.
Platt showed signs that he could be useful if not left to make decisions alone but putting him on the wing would expose him to high balls which I've not a great deal of confidence about. His defence and effort along with being a good athlete could make him the surprise package. Along with that he winds Leeds up no end.
Looking forward to seeing Halley, hopefulyl at fullback, with a proper pre-season and agree about Scruton developing over the year to look like he fitted in as the starting prop he wanted to be.'"
whilst id agree with that to some extent I think he looked a lot worse defensively than he actually was because sykes got drawn into the middle a lot, leaving rikki in two on one situations. ?It was very noticeable how much tighter the defence at that side was in the last 5 or 6 games once sykes moved to SO and platt took over duties. I stand to be corrected but I seem to remember in that period more tries were actually scored against semi/nero than against platt/sheriffe.
Id like to see sheriffe given a run alonside a stronger defensive ,whether thats platt or nero, before making a judgement.
