My apologies, the players I mentioned are at Widnes. Blame it on old age. Yet it seems to me that this year both Wigan and Saints have many young, talented, skilful and enthusiastic backs available to cover for injuries. According to the Sky RL pundit, Phil Clarke it is because these teams let these youngsters train with the first teamers, and they learn good habits from these players.
Where are the young backs at the Bulls? There must be some but we appear to stick to the same dispirited lot.

Doubles up. St Joes is winter Underbank summer conference.

Be fair, they did win MoS in 2009!

This is a bit of a bizarre thread.

I think the team is underachieving. At the beginning of the season the general concensus on this forum seemed to be that the squad was better in quality than last seasons. Those same players have proven to be less than inspiring for whatever reason on the pitch.

You have to wonder whether they're suffering from the same 'issue' that Macca kept blaming last year - they're looking good during training but this isn't being transfered onto the pitch on game day. If so I can fully understand why Potter looks p*ssed off during the game (or it could be that he's wishing he'd decided to stick to his guns and go back to Aus!)

I'm not sure now's the time for knee jerk reactions. This was always going to be a transitional season - I'd like to say that it's simply a case of evolution rather that revolution but I'm afraid that even that looks debatable at the moment, but I think we have to allow a certain amount of leeway.

Well I suppose we have signed a player that was at the club when we "just" missed out on the playoffs after a decent winning run who was then let go before the club missed out on the playoffs by a mile after a massive losing run.

So that would be an improvement.

I've always believed that it's better to have two good halves who complement each other than two outstanding individuals who don't, so if MP thinks his 'new' signing makes a better fit in the squad then I'm happy to go along with his view. If I'm honest, much as I would never want to deny freedom of speech to anyone, threads like this are so surreal they "do my 'ed in"