I just hope he's not another midget of the variety we keep producing from our youth sides, especially in the backs. Eastwood, Lomax, Swift, Wheeler, Makinson, Percival - all very small men by professional rugby standards.
If you look at the top threequarters, apart from the occasional freak like Jason Robinson, you find 6-footers with athletic builds. Our best threequarters of the recent past were the same: Hunte, Sullivan, Albert, Newlove, Lyons, Iro, Gidley etc.
I don't think the diminutive size of the backs we keep producing is unconnected to their dreadful injury records.
Wigan seem to have a production line of lads who are 2-3 inches taller than our equivalents. Is it a genetic St Helens thing? Do they really eat more pies in their formative years?
Hopefully Spedding will be a decent-sized athlete.