Saint from Prestwich wrote:
He is only used for 10 minutes at the end.Totally pointless exercise.I would rather see a young player used who is going to be at the club next season.
When fully functional, Eastmond is a fantastic player. He can cover fullback (poorly, granted), centre and halfback. He is useful in that respect. But why have a young player on the bench when theoretically we have a superb scrum half there? Much better to have the latter. Plus, it gives him game time to keep him ticking over in case we need him fulltime to cover an injury in the backs. I think Royce has been sticking with the future players by keeping Lomaskell in the halves rather than dropping one of them for Eastmond.