Re: Which of? : Tue Dec 28, 2021 12:24 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

I’d probably go with Kaide Ellis. He looks impressive in terms of his stature when you see training clips, he’s got a point to prove and I like what I see in interviews and on social media in terms of how he settling in to living here. He seems to be comfortable and is making all the right noises about what he wants from his time here, i.e to improve as a player and to win things and not have a holiday.

It’s going to be very interesting watching the friendly vs Wire and the early games. There are so many unknowns about this squad. Let’s hope they leave us all excited for what’s ahead and not panicking but it really could go either way.

We were talking about this the other night and I suggested Ellis purely on the fact that few fans are talking about him. It’s all about Cust and Mago.
The problem with that is where will he play?
I can’t believe it’s in the backrow because we all know that will be Farrell Bateman and Isa which for me is too lightweight and lacks variety in attacking qualities. Could Ellis give some extra variability and more grunt in the backrow?

Maybe he will be our 60 minute prop.

Interesting times

Re: Which of? : Tue Dec 28, 2021 12:26 am  

dany1979 wrote:

Field has also been running at scrum half in training.

Interesting
Who has been playing the FB role?

Re: Which of? : Tue Dec 28, 2021 12:36 am  

Itchy Arsenal wrote:

We were talking about this the other night and I suggested Ellis purely on the fact that few fans are talking about him. It’s all about Cust and Mago.
The problem with that is where will he play?
I can’t believe it’s in the backrow because we all know that will be Farrell Bateman and Isa which for me is too lightweight and lacks variety in attacking qualities. Could Ellis give some extra variability and more grunt in the backrow?

Maybe he will be our 60 minute prop.

Interesting times

I could see him shifting a bit between prop and loose forward. It will be interesting to see what they do with Bateman, Farrell and Isa because as you point out, it’s not the biggest but they all probably deserve a start. I think they might give Bateman the first shot at loose forward but we’ll see.

Re: Which of? : Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:06 am  

Itchy Arsenal wrote:

Interesting
Who has been playing the FB role?

I’d imagine that only leaves Hanley

Re: Which of? : Tue Dec 28, 2021 12:42 pm  

Itchy Arsenal wrote:

Interesting
Who has been playing the FB role?

No idea but I’d imagine they will need to try different people to accommodate different scenarios throughout the season.