looks better than welham!!

Fully agree. Friday was his best game so far.

Good English centres are very hard to come by.
Looks like we have a couple of very good ones tied to the club for the next few years.

Talk about being damned by faint praise.

Seriously though he had an excellent game in both attack and defence.

Wasn't convinced by him when he played at SO but he has had 2 good games and 1 very good game at Centre now. With an extended run we should find out if he has the potential to make the postion his own.

Looking better every week...some good defensive work this week...growing in confidence.

Starting to think he could be our main right centre next season

Mmmmmm......maybe, seems to be settling in now and gaining in confidence.

Agree. Yeaman's concerning me a bit though. His anticipation of there being something on is pretty poor.If you watch the video of the Saints game and the Manu/Briscoe try, he literally looks asleep in backplay and jumps like he's woken up when he realises Briscoe's going on a run.

Yes hubby and me said the same thing when we watched it. Overall he has improved for me this season based on the last 2 seasons, but he certainly appears to lose concentration at times.

Maybe next season is the year to move Yeamo to the forwards.

2nd row

Replacing who? Manu? Tickle? Radford? Lauaki?

And I'm far from convinced that he has the engine or the size to make a good 2nd rower.

I've been saying this for years, and made the same point about the try against Saints. He's no centre IMO, and yet we've given him a 3 year contract.

Radford or Lauaki...not fussed

I'm no fan of Radford, but Yeamo wouldn't be anywhere near as effective. He's smaller, doesn't work as hard, and isn't as clever.

I wouldn't have Yeamo in the 17 if we had a decent alternative at centre.

...there are very few good alternatives to Yeamo.

We seem to specialise in "almost" centres:
Yeaman - good strength and can run in a straight line and fend, but struggles to put his winger away
Whiting - good reader of the game, but lead boots
Hall - good body swerve and opportunist but positional nightmare
Turner - bit early to tell, promising signs
Briscoe - probably the best of the lot but being cast as a winger now

Can't imagine any of them worrying an opposition coach that much as a "must stop" player when gameplanning.

Just on Radford, thought he did well again today. He seems to be literally throwing himself into tackles, like it's his last hurrah.

Yeaman in the back row

Yet Yeamos winger is our top try scorer..

thats what i was thinking

I'm more of a Yeaman fan than most. But he's a senior player now and should be looking to lead an inexperienced back line from the front. He just seems slow to anticipate opportunities.

Radford and Lauaki to play prop along with Moa, Dowes and O'Meley. Manu, Tickle, Yeamo and Burnett our 2nd rowers for next season. Focus on recruitment to the backs. Mainly a high quality half back that can stay fit.

Huddersfield's choice to accomodate Brough, Drew, Robinson and Brown vs ours of Long and Horne is interesting. Much more depth in the creative department there.

Yeaman is not, and never will be, an SL quality 2nd row forward.