Tickle and Dowes are being overplayed imo...Agar said with us signing Thorman we could spell Tickle....havent seen it happen yet.

i think because tickle had played well at the begining ov the season he`s kept putting him on for the majority/whole ov the game and dowes has had a fairly good season so far just no one to back him up...as usual.

ballcocks. he was poor by his standards, but he is nowhere near as bad as Thorman. if you rate Thorman so well have him back,

washy is injured at present which is whiting was suggested

i agree

Im afraid he was, they were both pretty non existant on saturday, and Id say against Saints Thorman looked a bigger threat with ball in hand, I dont know how you cant honestly see that.

thats YOUR opinion, and quite frankly if you think Thorman is better you are deluded

Fair enough.

if Washy was'nt injured id play him at loose man everytime, but in the meantime i think whiting would be a much better option than plodder radford.

Totally agree.

pity Agar the terrible doesnt, cos i expect the plodder to be named at 13 on friday,

Yup and like I said, I expect him to retire here aswell. Which is not good!

Were did I or anyone say Thorman is better? all im saying is how anyone can say he looked better then Thorman on saturday is beyond me, in what areas did Horne stand out?

please point out where i said that

when i was talking about him being nowhere near as bad as thorman, i wasnt talking about the wakey game i was talking in general.

Thats fair enough then, nobody in the right mind would say Thorman is a better player then Horne, the post you quoted was regarding saturday and the topic in general though.

but they are as bad as each other at the moment,the difference being horne is a local lad,and thorman's an outsider-but on past performances horney comes out best all the time.it's about time he pulled his finger out

Sorry ,can`t agree with that one.Thacks always seems to be trying his best.(Not saying it always good enough.)

Nope, fullback. Although he only had three games for them due to injury.







Tony has been comfortably our best player in his three games since returning. Whilst still obviously injured.

And he showed more in one kick return against Wakey than Horne did in his whole spell at fullback.



And yet Lee, also a 16 year old debutant, receives nothing but abuse from you despite giving his all every game. Weird.

Comfortably eh? Funny how the independent RL newspapers didn't pick up on this isn't it?

I'd drop Radford, Tickle and Thackray to start with. I would also rest Dowes and Berrigan. Horne is not playing well but i'd still have in my side.

The question is why are these players not performing anywhere near their potential

Must say I'm surprised how many people are calling for Tickle to be dropped

Not sure he needs dropping. I think his performances are a direct result of him playing 80 minutes every match. Playing him in 2 X 25 minutes spells would see much imrpoved performances from him

A lot of them are just generally not good enough and are deadwood.

I'd not drop him myself, but I can understand why people are calling for it. He does go missing in games and his defence is not consistently up to the required standard. However, I think a lot of this is down to him playing 80 minutes week in and week out.

Reviewing some of our games this season (yes, I am a glutton for punishment) he does run some good lines and provides offloads. If we had better (any?) support play we'd have scored more tries from his work.