A player like Gale is exactly what Cas needed alongside Ben Roberts. A steady head who will organise and look after the kicking responsibility, letting Roberts just go play in the same way that Chase used to for them.

They'll miss Clark and Huby far more they'll miss Sneyd. There's probably a good player somewhere in Scott Moore, but Powell will do well to find him.

There's a very decent nine inside Scott Moore. Someone just needs to throw him a lifebelt so he doesn't drown, allegedly.

What works for one team, doesn't always work for another, remember when the England footy team were going to play tiki taka?



Its alright saying were going to start playing a certain style to copy / emulate another team but do we have the set up TO do that? The right personnel etc? I don't think we do. We are set up to play off the cuff rugby and rely on individual skill to eke out opportunity's and judging by our turgid, predictable play inside the redzone for long distance trys. When this comes off, we look great, when it doesn't we look dire.



We made plenty of meters last year, our defence was spot on for large swathes of last season, we rotated players and looked the part all the way up to the magic weekend where we were jolted out of our groove and we coughed and spluttered away till the end of the season. Some games we turned up, some games we just went through the motions (Leigh at home, Les Cats both games at home)



We achieved what we all had waited for so long for in taking out the challenge cup in a clinical display but had depleted the tank and sank without so much as a ripple in those last 6 games. A taken pass here, a half break converted there who knows? we can only deal with what actually happened and we stank, stank royally.



Am I disappointed? Somewhat yes, all Gawwys bluster at "We're going for the lot next year" we had a brilliant chance to do it THIS year.



But hey! that's sport. You pays your monies, you roll with the punches.

The structure I want to see isn't set play after set play, but more a sense that a set of six has an objective. Not having that stands out a mile near to the opposition line, and is really odd given the number of 'playmakers' in our team.

In fairness that's a failing that's reared its head from time to time whenever the team hasn't been playing well, not just last season.

And IMO, that falls squarely on the players.



Sinfield, Burrow and McGuire have been around long enough to marshal the team with some authority and get people where they want them to be in attack. For whatever reason, there are times when they seem unwilling/incapable of doing it.



The very best players are able to play what's in front of them and adjust during games. We seemed unable to do that at times last year.

Leeds fail to make the hard yards down the middle and earn the right field position, instead electing to for the strike out wide to save them. It didn't.

Remember the classic scene from "Mike Bassett, England Manger"? Never ask the fans.

Perhaps McDermott should try the Christmas pudding formation? With Sinfield as the 6 pence

Actually field position isn't the issue, we get down to the opposition 20m plenty enough.....we just don't come away from there with the points that we should.

we are absolutely clueless in the oppositions 20,we are so predictable to defend against.



imo dobson and burns would have taken care of that deficiency had we dared to upset the loyalty to our golden generation of past it players and tried to bring them here