The fact we were out there trying to recruit Katoa tells me the club is thinking along the same lines- lock has a few decent options within the squad, 2nd rower is where we need to be adding someone.greeneyed wrote: ↑July 31, 2022, 8:37 pmI’m pretty confident of that myself.Botman wrote: ↑July 31, 2022, 8:34 pmI think there is some internal optimism that we've got 2 really good #13 prospects in Mooney and Ruston. I get the feeling the club is pretty confident between those two they've got an answer to the #13 question.Rick wrote: ↑July 31, 2022, 8:03 pm I think the biggest things we are missing next year is a lock, Right side Second Row or as said below someone to put pressure on Whitehead and CHN plus a back up fullback.
We need a scrappy hard working lock (Bateman, Fensom, Elliot) rather than another prop. We need someone to plug the defensive holes and do the hard work allowing our props to shine. Mooney? Webb?
I can’t see whitehead getting back to his best unless the club are being coy about an injury. CHN is good in attack but a liability in defence. Mooney would be next in line?
Behind Savage we only have stop gap options. The new guy is 18 but I suggest we need someone in between. Our wingers don’t slot in there as easily as other teams do. Rapana is too old and NC is too big. Schiller is more of a centre rather than FB. Kris, no.
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I even wonder if we'd have let CHN go if we had got Katoa. Funny bit of business re-signing him and then all this.
Our back up is covered for FG by Rapa and Schiller. I think Schiller might have a few more skills than just an average winger. So our stop gap options are ok. Reggies FB can be Hoppa or get a journeyman minimum in because I honestly think Savage is it and it's Rapa or Schiller in FG behind him. And you're better off financially by having a few decent backup wingers so you can shift one to FB for a few weeks if needed than trying to keep a genuinely good FB in reggies (we tried that with Aekins, it didn't do much for us despite him having 80% of a FG fullbacks game).