Wasting your time with that one, mate.

After Motu has gone there'll be regular threads about 'Superman' v whoever the next full back is.

I preferred Prescott to Briscoe but never once brought it up when Briscoe was at the club.

Um, I'm not sure that is what I said. I mean, it was a mistake, one of the bigger ones at that (from a rugby point of view, in recent seasons) and one of many, that has put us into this situation in the first place.

While I'm under no illusions regarding Briscoes abality, he definetly is the type of player that we could have done with in the last couple of seasons.

I guess the one thing we will never know is what his wage demands were, without that it is very difficult to evaluate what went on.

I don't think there will. Tony wanted to play full back when both he and Briscoe were at the club, and as a result Briscoe was played out of position had some relatively unsuccessful games at wing and centre, because he is an out and out full back. My suspicion is that, had Tony not been at the club, we'd have probably offered Briscoe a bit more cash and he'd still be here. That's why there is this "head to head" thing, as effectively the club backed Tony for FB (and I don't think Sharp really rated Briscoe either).

This has proved to be the wrong decision in hindsight as a) Motu's a very good player but fails in some key FB basics, b) Motu's had some horrendous luck with injuries and has been unable to play for extended periods since Briscoe left and c) Briscoe's made a decent enough go of it at Rovers to warrant international selection.

In hindsight, we should have kept both, used Motu as the utility back and then we wouldn't have needed Byrne and could have used his quota spot elsewhere.

Summed up perfectly especially the last bit. There was no need to ever recruit Byrne at the club. Major recruitment error.

I agree with all of that. Well summed up.

New full back will make both of those look average

would you care to elaborate Brother.

Or not signed Berrigan and continued with Motu at hooker. Glad as I've been to see Berrigan play here, we didn't need a hooker particularly at that point.

Oh, and Briscoe was offered a contract to stay and chose to reject it.

Yes he's very good

Nice one Brother, seeing as your not going to tell me, when can i expect the club to announce it, i have faith in you with your current success rate

Christmas

your popularity is falling by the second

Never had any

just got a txt off hdm news flash and it says
''tonys season, and fc career, is hanging in the balance after suffering a freak injury. fc say he'll struggle to return this year''
looks like it was a big insect that bit him

not that good

yeah be very suprised if we see him again, still in hospital i believe

the brother told me about motu on monday

Thats sad for Motu as it looks like hes gone for the season, regardless of this i think Motu would not have been here next season, Brother is already alluding to the fact that we have signed a new full back for next season.

we have, jordan tansey

Shhhhhhhh.

Matt Bowen

more chance of it been jim bowen

Must be a rather large insect to have to end up with his leg in pot.

On the plus side, the infection is the first thing he has caught this season.