Absolutely shocking game from Horne today, can't fault what he has done for the club over the years but sentiment doesn't win rugby games.

I don't think I have ever seen a No6 get caught in possession and look so clueless with ball in hand. The sooner he is moved to full-back and a pacey stand-off recruited the better.

We are close to signing some-one from the NRL by all accounts

Is anybody running good lines for him?

I accept he isn't the sole blame for his poor performance, but top quality stand-offs don't catch the ball, look around like a rabbit caught in headlights...before easily being tackled, you have to have some idea of what you are going to do before you catch the pass.

Horne was poor today , to slow with ball in hand . His passing and quick thinking is not good enough for a top 4 team . Efforts there but sometimes that's not enough . Be happy to have him as back up next season .

Obviously I haven't see the performance today but if I were expecting a runner and I caught the ball went to pass and he wasn't their the rest could easily be what happened.

I'm in full agreement. Have loved watching Richard play for us but IMO we need to move on and a new no.6 is needed. I'm happy to have Horney as part of the squad but his days of a starting place in the team should becoming to an end.

Think everyone knows this including Peter Gentle.

I very much doubt that Horne will be at 6 next season.

Agree with this. Seymour does OK for me but needs a decent foil and I don't think R Horne is it.

Someone in our block was moaning that Seymour is the worst scrum half we've had since some bloke I'd never heard of (ie 20 + years ago). Is he really worse than Thorman?

Horne was poor today and basically confirmed what plenty of people have thought for a long time, he is done as a HB.

People clearly watch a different game to me, Seymour was far from his best today, but his kicking was good IMO, he repeatedly forced drop-outs from Saints with good kicks. He can't do everything on his own and not having a good partner in the halves limits his effectiveness.

Thought seymour was decent today

Seymour is a good player, not great but good.

Certainly our best halfback signing for many years.

Needs a partner.

I agree, however with the right 6 he could be a great player imo.

I'm not even that sure about Horne for FB.

I'd try and sign a Fb as well (Kearney) and use Horne as a utility back.

I hope Gentle sees this as well and goes all out to sign a new 6 for the 2013 season. Horne has been way off the pace for a good three or more seasons now and he's become slow and stale at stand off. I don't think Seymour Can operate to his full potential without a quick thinking pacey 6 alongside him.

not only horne, i thought houghton had his first poor game for a while, constantly passing the ball right when we had all that possesion in the second half, the majority of our plays easily handled by the saints defence, soon as it came left we scored!

We need a recognised fullback and not Horney. It's a specialised position and it needs filling with an out and out FB. Horne should be used as a utility back if a place on the bench could be found for him.

Spot on.

horne was shocking today. Epitomised our whole performance with his lack of speed and ideas. As has already been said, I can't remember a half back being caught in posession so many times before. Having said that, much of the ball he received was absolute cack. Ball out of dummy half is pretty poor from us all of the time and as much as I like houghton, it is his biggest weakness

Manu, Whiting & Briscoe on our left flank should have had a field day with the possession we had. But they were starved of the ball for the whole game, which was criminal IMO.
Horne is my favourite FC player of the SL era, but I hope we have something a bit more special at 6 next year

Finally!

I've been saying for the last 2-3 years that Horne is done at 6 and when it was announced that he was moving to fb I thought it's not ideal because he still isn't a top fb. But atleast he's away from 6. He should be a squad player from next season. He's not good enough to be a first choice player in any position for us imo.

I said the other day that it is the clubs intention to sign a new fullback and halfback for next season,horne WILL be a back up player next season if all goes to plan

agree with above really although think horney still might be our fb for next year,

There's plenty of quality s/o and fb about.