IMHO right centre is the hardest position on the pitch to defend and from I remember of seeing him at academy he always pkayed left.

So down to the mix of Yeamos dominance of the left side and Crooks partnership with Lineham and doing so well , then he's been kept on the right and whilst playing so well the issue didn't seem so prominent.

I don't know too much about his youth rugby but I would hazard a guess he played in a fairly decent team so for the majority of that he would not have needed to defend, you then get to the hard end of the career pathway and these decencies come to show, by that time it is very hard to fully correct things although they can be worked on and that goes for even being under the guidance of world class coaches.

Bens still a young lad, a lot of people forget that, yes he's lucky to be doing what's he done and thousands of kids would love to be were he is, but he has got other influences and ideas aswell.

Good luck to him in Oz, plenty of lads have been out there for the experience and lifestyle and many have returned

Not many players come back to "bite us on the aris" as people say. Probably about 1 in 20 of those who we bin off do that. In fact, I think it's only Danny Brough who has, and he was kicked out for far worse reasons than being a poor player.

Good luck to Crooks but its not as if he's going to play first grade. A sense of perspective please.

We told you months ago Travis was being sold.

Your chairman told you that you are not a selling club.

£300k of fees in the last year, wheres that gone?

Then we turn that club into Bratfut

Mark sneyd dropped for tonights play off.

Strange decision, let's see how that pans out for them

according to the Parramatta coach he has been brought in with the intention of increasing competition of the first choice backline not just to play second grade.
They are not going to waste money on a two year contract if it is not to benefit the club.

Interesting that you choose to believe what [isome[/i coaches say.

Dropped for jamie ellis,his form seems to have dropped away back end,saving himself for next season ?

Was excellent the few games after it was announced he had signed for us, but since wembley has been poor( although plenty of other Cas players also have), miles better player than Finn, big mistake by Powell IMO.

Maybe a case of won't be here next season so pointless playing you now, #petlip.

Possibly , Travis burns syndrome I think it's refered to as

Can't be pal or Clarke wouldn't be playing . Just Powell proving he's only human and not gods gift to rugby league

Not really. Other than 15 minutes against us he's been ineffective every time I've watched cas recently

My post from another thread:
He played very well for about the first 10 games of the year. Since then he has had the odd good game, the vast majority have been very ordinary and lately he has been awful. Terrible under pressure - subbed off at Wembley to give him some time to get his head straight and one the worst half-back performances I have ever seen in our other big game last night when a win would have seen us top the league.
Most of our kicking game recently has gone through Finn, Sneyd's confidence seems to be completely shot.
As for goal kicking - he will either land 5/5 or 0/5, as soon as he misses he gets the jitters and will almost always struggle from then on unless he gets one under the posts to lift his confidence. The easy conversion he missed at Wembley reflects how poor he is under pressure.
Good luck with him next year, he's a good bloke by all accounts and deserves to do well. However, I can't help thinking he was just in the form of his life early in the season and Salford were laughing all the way to the bank when they got 100k+ for him.

Fan slates departing player shock.

At least he's on topic on this thread

Not at all. He was always with us for a year, he was never our player for 2015.
I'll be the first to praise our other departing player in Daryl Clark, he will be a massive loss for us and a big gain for Warrington.
Just my honest thoughts on Sneyd. And clearly Powell thinks the same, having dropped him for tonight's game.

To be fair,sneyd has been dropped for jamie ellis,not a good sign.

Your SL dream team:

Shame he's gone .

Well, that's interesting.

It's a typo. I meant Smith.

Dobson went back to fight for a first team spot. He's back 12 months later and he's a far more valuable player than Crooks. Whats your point?