The other thing you get with youngsters is inconsistency. I like Williams and think he'll become a very good player but it's a big ask for either him or Powell, if that turns out to be the case, to fill Green's boots who's been a very big player for us. Personally I would have liked a senior option too but, I suppose, that's the price you pay for having such a strong production line. At some stage you'll get a situation where you either play players or risk losing them and I think both Powell and Williams, along with Hampshire, are simply too good to risk losing at this stage of their development. On the face of it I certainly think Saints go into next season with the better options at half which hasn't been the case for quite some time.

Am I the only one who wants to see Rocky take over at 6 next year? He is too good to leave out next year IMO. I'd have him at stand off with one of Powell/Williams on the bench, then the year after we can always look at moving him to FB as we did with Sam Tomkins or put Tierney there depending on how he's getting on

I'd certainly like to see him given some game time there Grimmy. He could be a revelation long term. I think in the short term he'd be subject to the same problems as playing the other youngsters there, perhaps only more so. Ultimately, it depends on whether you're taking the long term view or not. Perhaps more significantly it depends, in these days of NRL poaching etc. whether you can afford to!

I would have Sarge at FB with Bateman going Centre and Rocky 6.

Ask kirk dixon

Ted Lune another of my Heroes .

So Charlie that's where you get your one liners from?
When you really do a post will it be like the letter from Ted Lune's mother?