I hope we dont jump on the players backs like we did last season, it didn't help anybody! Especially this season having so many younger players, it could crush them. Suppose you always get the idiots though, and there are too many of them in the shed!

Hopefully we'll have Rob Parker back in the pack so there's your ' old pro ' . Myler-Wilshere-Stapleton, that was then but this is now, we'll wait to see whether the team are united behind Alker in his new coaching role, there was definately upheaval last year! So here's to a new season without the bickering , the boo boys and Offiah conducting contract negotiations 18month's prematurely via the press

I was simply stating that IMO one more old head in the pack wouldn't be a bad thing, I like Parker, but still think we'll miss stapo big time. As you say that was then and this is now and yes we will soon see. All I was doing was simply answering the question of who I think we'll miss most.

Here's to a cracking 2010 and hopefully proving a few critics wrong along the way

STAPO, no doubt, think big phils got a big chance to shine but i think cashmere needs to get some scoring sorted, fair enough he can carry a ball with 4 defenders on his back but i want to see him cross that line more often.

He's a prop, his scoring of tries should be the least of our concerns.

I agree. It's no good just having players who are one-dimensional.

Take Ratchford for example; he may have a decent kicking game and the ability to ghost through the defensive line but how often do you see him driving the ball in, making the hard yards up the middle, or in the middle of the park putting in big tackles? Time that young Stef rolled his sleeves up and put some graft in.

Similarly, I can't remember Leuluai or Parker utilising grubber kicks too often last season?

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Take Ratchford for example; he may have a decent kicking game and the ability to ghost through the defensive line but how often do you see him driving the ball in, making the hard yards up the middle, or in the middle of the park putting in big tackles? Time that young Stef rolled his sleeves up and put some graft in.

An excellent post!!

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