Whilst Leon may not have been an organiser, he would have been the experienced head we needed last year. A younger guy could have played alongside him and took on the organising. Instead we had 2 younger fella's and one older fella with no halfback experience.
I was not a Leon Pryce fan, in terms of him being seen as a half, but as a devestating runner he could do things that we just don't have a capability for.
But Pryce is just part of a long line of downgrading the halfbacks.
I'm happy for people to disagree, but I'd say
Martyn to Hooper was a downgrade
Hooper to Pryce was a downgrade
Pryce to Lance was a downgrade
However, during that time, they all had Long to back them up and take on more and more. I think Long ended up doing more at Saints as time went on, to the point where you shut down long you shut down Saints. That was the issue in the end when we were losing Grandfinals. Long could carry Saints through a season. But as he lost his more skillful halfback partners then Saints became more long oriantated and in a final lining up against Sinfield, Maguire and Burrow, that's a 3 to 1 fight.
You put Scully in the team and suddenly we look like the Golden generation.
It's no one player that we have let go, it's been the gradually reduction in creative halves that has set us back.
That's why I say, you put Lomax and Roby back in the team we are top 4, take them out top 8. But to be top 2 with a fight of silverwear we need 3 pivots. It's the one thing Leeds have had for the last 6 years and what wigan had when they won on Leeds off year.
