[quote="mac2010":1ofcxrpd]faster in the backs,weaker in the forwards only one good half back in the squad and no real goal kicker.seem we could be in for a difficult season.But`then Chester and Lam seem to have a knack of getting things right[/quote:1ofcxrpd] Yes, that about sums it up for me too. I could perhaps add that we have (yet) again a new season and a new team. How quickly will we gel. The season could well be over for Cup runs and top 6 finishes before we hopefully become cohesive and dangerous again. Transition season only for me. I really, really hope that I am wrong.

as none of us have seen any of the new boys play full games how can we know we do know it takes time to gel a top class half back would help as would some home games early is it only us has this handicap we did say would go back for condon once hes fit surely pene has more to offer trout will be fitter and claim his place the others are mainly young men hopefully we have picked the right characters and they will go on to make themselves known as amone and odonnell did

[quote="satanicmills":iafphcx0]as none of us have seen any of the new boys play full games how can we know we do know it takes time to gel a top class half back would help as would some home games early is it only us has this handicap we did say would go back for condon once hes fit surely pene has more to offer trout will be fitter and claim his place the others are mainly young men hopefully we have picked the right characters and they will go on to make themselves known as amone and odonnell did[/quote:iafphcx0] Agree that we need a quality halfback, and i really do hope we do get one sooner rather than later, I hope what we go with doesn't affect our execution play like it did last year at times like Lammy pointed out more than once. However, we don't have a quota spot atm for Condon or any quota spot, but if we can offload Ben Nak, we can look at bringing in a top quality half. After saying that, Lammy must feel we're in a better place this season with the squad that we have now than we had last year, especially due to the disruption we had with the S&C late on just before our warm weather training in Lanzarote. Looks like we will have to go with what we have for now, and i will go for that for now. Still half glass full though.

[quote="satanicmills":37ay1xc1]as none of us have seen any of the new boys play full games how can we know we do know it takes time to gel a top class half back would help as would some home games early is it only us has this handicap we did say would go back for condon once hes fit surely pene has more to offer trout will be fitter and claim his place the others are mainly young men hopefully we have picked the right characters and they will go on to make themselves known as amone and odonnell did[/quote:37ay1xc1] Absolutely right. None of us know but that's the beauty of having an opinion and I respect anyone here who holds a different opinion to my own. At the end of the day we all support the same club and we sometimes watch the same things but come to different conclusions. Long may that continue. Speculation as to what is going to happen is all part of the fun of being a fan.

I'm amazed we haven't got a quality goal-kicker as some of the tight results will be decided by goal-kicking. I assume Macintosh and Gaz will be the goal-kickers, unless 1 of the new lads is proficient in that task. However, it's been reported Macintosh has picked up an injury in training. I'm sure it will be sorted eventually. Lam and Chester know what they're doing.