No NRL team would touch him unless he gets back to how he was playing at the beginning of this year.

I think the comments regarding TL are harsh tbh. Yes, he has been below par and not upto the required standard, but let's not forgot he's broke his jaw this year and the team has been ravaged by injuries. As someone else has mentioned, at the beginning of this year we looked slick and free-flowing much of this was down to TL's passing game and his ability to stand up the defensive line. This was also without S.Tomkins at FB who is a much better player than Escare despite Morgan performing so well earlier this year.

The chance of retaining the SL may have slipped already but I think we need to give the players a few weeks of performing together in a lineup that looks somewhat like our first team before righting off a player like TL with bags of caps for NZ.

IMO, of those, only the Knights' halves (who are inexperienced, and not that special, but are still keeping Hodkinson out the team), and possibly Sezer. Sutton doesn't play in the halves any more, does he? The others have a better all-round game than GW at the moment.

Watching Blake Green now and he's having a fantastic game.

I don't understand the whole 'we need to find a 7 who George can play with' notion when we play split halves. It baffles me when people keep thinking our 6 and 7 play together. Both halves control either side of the pitch, 6 and 7 are now the same positions!

The 6 has to link up more with his runners on his side of the pitch and the fb than the other half. Look at how we play; one half down the left, the other down the right. FB as a link between the 6 or 7 between them and the three-quarters. The central pivot which links halves is the 13, thats one of the additional reasons why lockers is so important to us.

We need 2 halves who can play, pass, read the game and can kick from their perspective halves. We have one, George Williams.

We have zero who can kick from our half by the looks of things and that's mainly my issue. Tommy is doing 95% plus of the kicking from our half (actually it's more like from anywhere outside the opposition 20) and he's awful at it. So if we split the halves that then means we're needing to always try and get to his side in time for the last play which clearly isn't ideal.

If George Williams has a long kicking game it's time to use it!

Agree with both the above posts. The fact that we play split halves (as do most teams) doesn't alter the fact that we need at least one half with a long kicking game, and GW shows no sign of having one, and Tommy's is pretty poor. Unless and until we can find such a half, I would have thought it best if we let Sam Tomkins do most of the long kicking. I mean, where are our 40/20s this season? I think I'm right in saying we've only managed one, and that was Sam Powell.