As a Leigh fan this makes interesting reading, as I compare Tilse to our forwards, I feel if you put him in our team around big forwards who share the workload he would be a real stand out player.
There are not many teams with a set of forwards as big as Leigh, this is were we came unstuck last year, we were just too lightweight which I can see in your backrow/bench.
This year with Hansen, Weston, Hock, Patterson, Hopkins, & tickle all well over 6ft and 100KG+ we generally out bully teams up front and that has co-incided with our style of rugby change, add too that Moi Moi & Maitua you have a very good blend of size & power. We released average forwards like Emmitt & Haggerty realising the problem with "smaller" forwards against SL packs. Puletua gave us nightmares last year.
I don't know how much Tilse is paid but I bet its 3 times as much as Weston who we got for peanuts from Melbourne with an impressive 8 year NRL career behind him & he's only 29.
Forwards cost you on Saturday (I know Cockayne had a shocker) but after Tilse & Walker you had nothing, added to that I think someone had upset Hansen as he nearly killed people.
You are too strong to go down, I think you are 2 props & a back rower off being a top 8 team.
There is too much expectation on Tilse & Walker.