where did I say that they didnt need to catch? With that logic its like saying you dont think wingers need to pass......soooooooooo the basic skills are poor running lines, tackling, reading the game, passing (kicking isnt a basic skill), catching under pressure. Most union players are poor at this thats why the domestic game is dross. So please show my lack of anything that didnt make sense?

10 years ago maybe. If you think English backs are anywhere near the level of rugby backs you are clueless

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King James

Now that is a proper pees take, we have few decent backs currently in league but Union still take our cast offs as an improvement on what they have.

I don't know which type of rugby union you watch but it isn't the same type that comes through my tv. When it comes to being clueless your self proclaimed title really does come to the fore.

They have a few decent outside backs: I'd rate Wade and Jack Nowell (who I'd always thought would make a good league player; quick, tough, gets involved, and has a bit of a rugby brain too). But the general standard of back play is still well below even the current reduced standard of SL. They are all union fans around where I live, of course, and a fella in my local is always banging on about Rokoduguni. But he looks unremarkable to me; I wouldn't see him shining in SL. And as Fijian (not English!) wingers go, of course, he's not in the same universe as the likes of Korobeite or Uate.

Really? England RU team 10 years ago was better than the current 1.

8 straight defeats for Sale as they lose at home to the bottom club...

It'll all end up being Charnley's fault.

Hope so anyway ... then we can get him back sooner than expected, before they do irreparable damage to his ability.

You've gotta laugh!

Of course it's not Charnley's fault (or Solomona's, for that matter), but yes, I do laugh!

I wonder if they have get-out clauses in their contracts in the event of Sale being relegated (unlikely, to be fair)?

I was being ironic ... or trying to.

But even if they have get-outs, I'm not sure Solomona would be welcomed back with open arms.

I realise that; a riff on Sam Burgess etc.

Somehow I don't think Solomona will want to return to SL; as long as he doesn't make a complete Horlicks of his code switch, I expect him to stay in Union.