You can't win anything with kids - look at Cas' recent form; they were lauded for the young local lads in their team and it doesn't seem to be paying dividends for them.

Unless they're an exceptional and freakish talent, like Sam Tomkins, young lads need to be brought through in a planned and structured way, not chucked into the grind of weekly SL while the coach crosses his fingers and hopes for the best; that's the best way to ruin a promising talent.

As it stands, I'd take Sykes - experienced, pretty reliable, a good boot and no need to do too much reorganising to accomodate him.

well that would suite us just fine because were not winning anything anyway!! yeah cas have got a hell of a lot of youngsters playing, im not saying do that.. bringing one lad through slowly in replacement of a centre that looks like hed rather be looking at his bank statement definately sounds good to me.

I agree. Cas have some great kids but you can't do it with too many. Need to bring in slowly not as an emergency.
Goal kicker is valuable to us. Sakes will fit the bill. I feel a bit for whomever would be dropped but that's how it goes.

The best goalkicker at the club by a mile from what i've seen and heard is Collis. Hasn't been able to kick though due to a groin problem. TO be honest i'm not sure if he should have been playing at all if that's the truth. Surely we would be better resting him until he is 100%.

Rather then leaving Walshaw on the bench for 70 minutes?!

Exactly.