No disrespect to Robert's, particularly if he is leaving, but I would rather McCormack, Smith and Simpson get a shot at centre ahead of him. I suspect Martin and Robert's will remain ahead of the youngsters as preferred centre options though as they are solid and reliable. I just think the youngsters can add a bit more attacking flair, albeit defensively may be weaker.

And move Martin back to the pack. Decent and pragmatic loan move.

Not sure Simpson is quite fully recovered yet

Agreed it also means Goudemand can go back to prop if needed, which i think is a better use of him at this point

Really?.
Eurgth. He's not done much wrong for a young un. Sure he's no Senior but not many are.
He's steady and reliable, just not what we need atm.

Roberts has made more errors than Miller but doesn't offer anything like as much in attack. I think if he was the right kind of player for a club of our ambitious we would have seen it now. I like his effort but if we're going to be ruthless we need better than this.

After the Premier league darts last night they had a program on after called "away from the oche" (I think) and it dealt with a few of the players Luke Humphries, Michael Smith and especially Nathan Aspinall.

Nathan was very pragmatic that you could send him abuse all you want but once it strays into bringing in his family in to things because you cant get a rise out of him then there's the major red line. He even had to report some of this garbage to the police it was that bad and he took things like that very badly as any father would "Im just out here to try and provide for my kids and family" was his forlorn reply to questions about it.

The same people who are happy to anonymously send this abuse are generally the first ones to say "oh whys he quit etc he was a decent player etc etc" Its not "banter" its abuse and unfortunately its rampant at the moment with multiple social media channels.

My Dad used to say like it or lump it that's what your having ala Gawy Hethrington to the fans as the rich neighbours sign Tom Johnson.

Not getting Tom Johnston doesn’t bother me.
But not getting or at least trying to McMeeken seems dumb .

We've made many a dumb recruitment decision in recent years... only bucked with Croft and Ackers this year.