Re: CC RD 3 | St Helens (A) : Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:05 am
christopher wrote:
I think the one thing we can take from this game is how far we have come, its less than 2 years ago since we got dumped out of the CC by Brafford
Absolutely. I am still fairly confident about the future.
I just think the club needs to make the right calls and not the easy calls on some players this year. Players like Gale and Prior are towards the back end of their careers now. I do think 2022 is a window of opportunity to really get up there again but we still need a couple more players.
We still need another proper prop; we have replaced Ava with a different type of player in Tetevano. Maybe two if Prior goes this year.
Question marks remain over full back and stand off. We're over-stocked with centres and under-stocked with wingers. There are a couple more lads in the Academy system but maybe +1 high quality outside back wouldn't hurt - you have to think about Johnstone, he's hurt us every time we've played Wakey and has exactly what we lack. We never looked like making a long-range break in the back line against Saints, and I'm not sure our first line players provide that either (although they can break a tackle).
Anyway still very proud of the way the lads showed up yesterday - over the course of this season the spotlight will fall on some other areas of the side which need fixing up now we're almost there with the pack.