Breach of club discipline wasn't it?

Off-field reputation and age would rule him out for me, considering what a big money signing he'd almost certainly be.

With a slight change of style (both him and team tactics) and an extra stone at least, I agree. I've always thought he could have been an excellent replacement for Chester.

amen..

His distribution is incredibly slow. I said for most of last year that Berro was 3rd behind Lee and Houghton. I've seen nothing to change my mind this year. Berro's distribution is poor.

Think he played all of pre-season there and then an injury in the first game meant he moved back to centre. Not really a fair crack at the position though.

youve gotta be joking....tommy lees disposal from the ruck was slow and predictable.....never been a hooker that lad...

Slow as a hooker, quick plays, quick distribution. Do you get it? Do you watch RL?

Spot on

Very fair summation. Totally agree.

I don't get you







He's actually not slow, he tends to come away from dummy half slow as he is lookig for holes and runners, Houghton is more of a darter and gets out of dummy half really quick. His distribution is poor at times.

Exactly and that allows the defence time to push up and forces us inside. The momentum we had on Sunday stopped and some of that was due to the loss of speed at dummy half and us allowing the Huddersfield defence to restrict the yards made which results in players trying to get the ball away too close to the defensive line resulting in dropped ball , hurried passes etc. Variation is needed at dummy half but it's vital to get it away from the ptb for the most part quickly and give our , sometimes ponderous anyway, back line as much time as possible. Houghton is no panacea ( who he play for

) but his darting style probably suits what we have at the moment and builds momentum.

Exactly why we need a "Paul McShane type" hooker, bullet passes off the floor with excellent accuracy.

Yup, to add to that Houghtons distribution has become really sharp this season. Berro is just too laboured.

Probably I am in the minority, but I don't care. I'll say what I think. Berro is a slow hooker, slow to do anything from that position, and has done very little for us. You want to look at the name and call him superstar then that's upto you. I think he has been a waste of space. (quota)

That will now be construed as me saying he is gash, which I am not. Just don't think the lofty rep has been justified, and to me at times, has not even looked interested. Poor signing IMO, when all things are considered.

I'm in full agreement.

20lb carp deep water

nanoo nanoo

Houghtons dummy half bullet pass to Long for our 3rd try agaist Hudds was out of the top drawer. His distributuion is really improving.

Berro for 7 next week?

I would give it a try. Berro has a good kicking game and decent passing game with a history of playing in the halves. I think Tansey has been so dangerous out wide as third receiver that it would be a shame to disrupt that part of our game because it has created plenty of tries.

If Houghton needs spelling maybe Washy could have a run at hooker.

After playing 2nd row last night, what positions hasn't Berrigan played for us!?

I would like to see Berrigan in the halves next week, anything other than Horne/Washbrook, which we've tried loads of times before and it doesn't work.

Spot on, unfortunately it seems we're stuck with him for another year.

On the positive side, I may get another opportunity to see him in Jackson's at 4am balancing Fray Bentos pies on his head

He played 13 for us last night like he has for Oz and state of origin etc. He came on for 1 of the props and Radford then moved to prop from 13.

Thought he was only capped as a Centre? And a brief appearance at 9.

I know he covered 3/4, 6 and 9 at Origin but never knew he'd played 13.