hull2524 wrote:
Imo big improvement what we had. We lost Taylor who was clearly struggling at times but gave his all. Satae who imo had one good game then 4/5 went missing. Evans say no more. All over 30. So yep defo an improvement with 4 big lads all under 30 replacing them
Would agree and can't see us needing or having Lane, Cator and Fash all in the same 17. With Ese' ese, Pele & Ashworth coming in alongside the likes Sao, Brown, Fash we should have a much more robust and reliable pack. As you say we lost Tag too often for periods, Evans was pretty much non existent when here and spent more time out the 17 than in it, so with those two alone we were left with little choice then add in Satae's 1 in 5 ratio. Hopefully Laidlaw and Gardiner will also be good options too along with Diakhate for decent cover.
As you say all relatively young with Sao being the only one over 30 so fingers crossed we won't get beaten down the middle too often.
LF will no doubt be Cator at present but think Brown could well be a decent option at 13 too, Hodgson put him there few times under his tenure and he did ok to be fair. Armstrong is well thought of, hopefully he will reach his potential.
SR could be the likes of Okunbor, Ashworth, Lane, Carlos/Scott with Staveley, Severs & Jebson.
Hopefully Lane will have a very good pre season and hit the ground running in 2024 and show the form he showed when he broke in to the 17, if not then I don't see him getting much game time.
