Amone is a top recruit but the others like Salabio, Singleton, Dezaria wouldn’t be ahead of our props. They’re solid but that’s it. 

Lino is fit and if Truman is too then that’s a huge boost as we can go back to the 1st choice spine. 


I disagree about what you say about lack of pace alegend. We do not have a lack of pace or speed. Just with the changes in the spine we can’t effectively get the ball to the edges in space. 


The only player who lacks much pace is Scott but if he moves to centre that’s less of an issue. 


Honestly let’s not start saying Atkin, Salabio, Dezaria are good. Would we have any over our starting team. I wouldn’t. 


I think our issue is now looking like our injuries in the props. I think we need to be playing more expansive though at magic. If Mike can pull an 80 minute though this week that would help somewhat. Hopefully he doesn’t have to. 


If we have Lino and Trueman I will still be fairly confident we should be beating Cas even with a few forwards out. I’d be targeting the edges. 


Cas won’t be easy opposition and they will want to try run through us. If we can find that tough defence from early season and play with a bit more freedom and smarts I see no reason we shouldn’t win by a healthy score. Even with 8 or so out. 

Wouldn’t surprise me if that injury was more caused by embarrassment than being stepped. 

Fairly sure he did exactly the same at Belle Vue ??

Yeah, Tex Hoy got well out of the way of Faatili - I would too.


However, Hoy also did an unbelievable job of making sure he didn't tackle Jowett on the first try.


I don't think Hoy's heart's in it and I'm not convinced he'll see the season out at Cas.

He seems a shadow of the player he was this season.