sadly your probably right. On the rugby, think we are seriously lacking a decent prop

I agree with you but HDM seems to indicate there's little left on the cap which surprises me.

I am thinking the same Jake,but it begs the question why.
Does Lee think after our pre season games,that our young ones not up to yet,or do we have an unforseen problem with one of our first choice back rowers.

Not sure I agree, we have 2 excellent props, one good one and another solid prop with potential to be better.

Add to this Masi, Ellis, Tomo, I think we are fine.

Not sure there are any other SL teams with a better set of props than us.

In an ideal world, we would sign better players, but it's hard with the cap and I think we have probably the best balanced squad since we have been in SL, certainly on paper good enough to win something again.

I bow to your obviously superior knowledge of the insurance scam game. I would agree that there is too much of a compensation culture, however I am actually willing to accept that there are plenty of genuine claims where honest people are looking to not be out of pocket.

If you can, could you please point out the exact wording or phrases used that would indicate I have ever made a personal injury claim. I doubt that you can.

If it helps I have made one insurance claim in my life, for water damage due to a leaking valve, no personal injury claim in sight there. Now should I have ignored the fact that I had been paying my insurance for 15+ years and paid for the damage myself thus keeping everybody else's claim down or actually used the service I had paid for?

Now if you were unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident through no fault of your own and led to considerable financial hardship what would you do?

we have taylor,watts, Bowden, green, 4 good young props, as back up we have masi,thompson, ellis, good set of props imo, yes injuries might bite but we cant cover every angle,

I think you have 2 long term england front rowers, I also think that Ellis would do a very effective job for you. Bowden and Green can also do a more than effective job for you. No real worries for you this season

I'd be really surprised if you did, I'd have thought you had a young kid better than him able to fill in if any of the 2nd row got injured, failing that one of your centres would be able to fill in better.

Larroyer was one of the biggest under performers in a team that had a fair few, never saw any signs there was much better to come either. Not sure how the french fit in with quota / fed trained etc either.

Agree 100%. If he's seen as not good enough for a championship team then he certainly shouldn't be in our sights. If he's signed to the detriment of our youngsters then I would be very puzzled as to what logic is being applied.

If Bowden and Green can step up, and make an impact from the bench, which apart from the occasional game, have not really, need to be consistent at making an impact, not just been steady whilst watts and taylor have a break, could see us signing larroyer and using ellis purely as interchange prop