Correct and young Roy Keane played in a 16 shirt all his career. The skipper !

27 into 13 will simply not go. Players will not be bothered what number is on their back as long as they are selected. Actually, if I was some of the players in that squad I will be thanking my blessings I even have a number. I mean Jamie Acton not having a Super League number 8 or 10? Disgraceful...




Rubbish thread.

IMO whilst we have a team to win SL games, we do not have the personell to exploit teams with an expansive style. I feel it is therefore unlikely we will adopt one. Especially with the rule changes to the scrum where defensive teams need to retract a full 10 metres.

Conversely, I feel teams could hurt us more from that change than what we will gain from it.

So you think we will be able to ' grind teams down and snatch victories ' ?

If we go out with the mindset to avoid heavy defeats we will lose , I couldn't care less what the score is , every game is winnable , just go out to win

But our forwards will give us more chance of winning than our backs.

We have some great RL ability in the forwards, Weston can pass, Stewart is as good as a halve, as is Patterson

Our players ( all of them ) will give us more chance of winning , but to do that they need to have the mindset of going out to win , from the 1 st second , they can all play the game , if they are allowed to do so

Paul Anderson was a battering ram at the Bulls , nothing more , when he signed for Saints he suddenly started playing RL , actually passing and offloading , they can all do it

That philosophy delivered by Paul Rowley was lapped up to great success in the 2015 middle 8's

We aren't playing in the middle 8s ( yet ) , and you have identified the problem in your post

That's 10 metres from the mark,I believe that realistically only adds another 1or2 metres on the old 5 metre rule not a full 10.Should be fun for the video ref come disallowed try time from a scrum.