Quote ="Mrs Barista"The thing about that group of 4 adding in King, was that they were all very good but also different and there was never a dip when they were rotated. The best group of props as a collective we've had in the last 30 years IMO and the platform of our success for those couple of years. A reason why I think we'll struggle to break the big 4 this time round - just don't see that consistent quality in our front row options. As a comparison in 16/17 we had Taylor, Watts, Bowden and Green with the latter two in their best form.amd again intensity not really dropping during interchanges. Just don't see that for 2020 but hope I'm wrong.'"
It's not often I agree with you Mrs B but you are dead right there on all counts. That group had all bases covered, they complimented each other perfectly. We had a grafter (Dowes), a big bodied metre maker (Carvell), a tackle busting impact player (Thacks) and a skillful all rounder (Kingy).
I'll reserve judgement on this years group, but I do share similar concerns. Houghton cant keep making 60 tackles a game forever. Someone somewhere is going to have to take up that slack. I'm sure this group of props will break bags of tackles and get plenty of offloads away, but you have to be good without the ball as well.
