thought the guy did ok,did more than westerman yesterday. was he on the field? made less mistakes than mcgoldrick {and didn't get sent off} made less mistakes than ferres who seems to throw an interception pass or bomb a try every week. he can only play the position matterson puts him in. if he is stupid enough to put him there, then he should get the abuse. he is the coach. by the way, remember sarge throwing a stupid offload straight to dorn ,which cost you the game against harlequins. everyone makes mistakes mate.

Faumuina, Clayton, Ferres and Higgins out at the end of the season for me.

Faumuina - Finally showed a bit of what he is capable of yesterday but there's better available next season then him, let him be another teams burden.

Clayton - Just not SL standard.

Ferres - Bombs a try at least once a game, makes a good 3-4 errors a game, greedy and doesn't give Shenton & Owen the service they deserve, ship him off to Celtic and replace him with a better back rower who's out of contract.

Higgins - Looks out of shape and makes zero impact when he's on the field, not the sort of player who should be in a team wanting to be in the top 4.

He tends to make wrong decisions at times but he's not a bad player. The problem is that he is one of the quota spots and with it dropping next season he's the main candidate to loose out. If he was a British player I'd be more than happy to keep him.

Everyone does make mistkae you are right and ferres and Mcg do make there fair share.

If you watch cas home and away every week like I do westerman destroyed wire at home last year and saints running and defending outwide. This year he been stuck in middle to accomadate sione. As for yesterday Westerman was playing as a makeshift hooker of bench. Yes I partly blame TM for this but sione has not helped the situation with his stupid offloads some important missed tackes and stupid offloads and lack of ability shown in kicking and going forward.

On that basis I would not offer Sione a new contract and would get joe back out wide. I feel there would be a better option available from australia or L gilmour and V anderson off contract in uk

He does not play 80mins week in week out, he has been subbed plenty, most often when he's made mistakes.

Physically gifted but doesn't have the strength of mind to do what TM is asking of. Sione is no stand off, he is no loose forward and he really needs to forget his kicking game



What I can't understand is why TM sticks with the tried, tested and failed combinations. What is he watching

I don't really rate him at all..
But i can't nock him for the Wire game, he played well.

Dont know what to thing about this guy

is TM giving him the wrong roll, as hes certainaly not a kicker or SO, we keep slcking him for his kicking but TM must be giving him that roll, he seems to be a liability at times, doesnt look were hes passing, but for some strange seems to have some ability even tho I havent seen any yet.
Id put him at loose forward, stop him from kicking and see how he goes, if he doesnt shine still, let him go.

He's only kicking because our main kicker is out, otherwise I would say there's no way he would be kicking, Sherwin would be doing the job and Chase would be his back up, even Hudson would be before Sione in the pecking order.
As I've said before, we really need to sign someone to fill in for Shifty, more so because we have no idea if he will even play again this season.

so if we are going at it like this then, why when McGoldrick was named as full back, was he not practicing catching the high ball like the rest, instead of putting the kicks up for the wingers. McGoldrick has always been suspect under the bomb, so surely practice would have been better for him.

I would rather have him play than that lard widders but nobody seems to notice the mistakes he makes when hes not injured of course

After an uninspiring start widders has really uped his game, he tackles hard, puts some good passes in doesnt throw silly off loads and despite his size has a good turn of pace, without him i dont think we would have won the bradford game.


As for sione, i'm undecided as yet, i think his biggest fault since he got over here has been trying to impress the fans to much (i dont know why the aussies bother with this, someone always slags them off, in the last few years i have heard people on the terraces say that sherwin, chase, mcgoldrick, nutley, manu and guttenbiel all werent good enough, meaning that they were watching a differant game to me or were biased against the aussie ((and kiwi etc.)) players), try to play real flash rugby and its not coming off, but if he does what is good at running the ball in hard and making big tackles in defence he's impressive (our top meter maker i believe). If tm could convince him to just do what he does best instead of trying to win the game every play, i think most people would think he was great. And for all the people who say he cant kick or pass (and at times i've been one of them) he can, he won mom awards in the nrl playing stand off, he just cant seem to replicate that over here, why i dont know maybe its the conditions, maybe he needs more time to adjust or maybe its because some of out supporters, prefer slagging off players to supporting them. I for one think theres a great player in sione, and hope we get to see that in a cas shirt.