Once Myler or Walker is back, I’d imagine he’d be in the centre at the minimum until Sutcliffe is back, if not til newman is back, depending on how broadbent goes and if there continues to be horrid luck with injuries.

If it had been longer than a deal for just this season id have been concerned however the deal makes sense.

Im sure the deal is heavily caveated, one mistake and he should be gone.

But none of those players are at Zak’s level on the field …..taking injuries and how often they play into account too.
Will be interesting and if he stays out of bother suspect club have an option of extending the deal…….

Anyway you’re all missing the real positive, it’s given Oxen another excuse for a sale

The split with his wife will weigh on him no doubt.

Which will be the interesting point no doubt. It’ll be easier I imagine to stay on the straight and narrow while you’re earning a deal either here or elsewhere, but if Zak does find himself in a comfortable situation, say a 2 year deal at the end, that’s when I’d worry he might go off the rails.

Conversely if he can’t stay sorted for even this short period of time, when on the surface the thing unsettling him (being out of Yorkshire) is fixed, then literally no one should touch him.

That’s exactly what I had in my head. Play well and keep nose clean, 2 year deal end of season….

I'm Ok with this for now, although I'd rather we didn't have to consider him. I wonder if we'll suddenly find out one of the injured players is even worse than thought, or one of our overseas players wants to go home.

He’s better than Sutcliffe by a country mile at centre and he’s better than either of our fullbacks. I’d play him centre with Myler at FB when everyone fit. I like what Myler brings creatively at FB but I’m sure Rohan will be looking at that

Good call and that could well be how we’ll go. By eck we’ll look a lot stronger soon…!