Positioning is still poor and he doesn't look comfortable playing as that extra pivot. He's an enthusiastic and elusive runner but the other qualities required of a modern fullback don't appear to be there.

Quick off the mark but not flat out fast. Elusive but erratic. Not sure he will end up at FB. Possible hooker depending on his distribution?

He's our best FB option ATM though

Carried on from where he left off last week. Doesn't look like someone who has played FB for very long to me. Positioning was very poor and he was nowhere near their 2 kicks at teh end. Cost us 2 points today. Both times he was only about 5 metres behind our defensive line on the last tackle rather tahn dropping back and giving himself some time

Looks nervous under the high ball and saints targetted him towards the end,ended up getting a point for them by not commiting himself and letting it bounce

Was comfortably our best player for me, even taking into account his positional blips. Did far more in attack than anyone else and we should have scored more than we did, so I think it's harsh to hold him responsible for the dropped point. We should have been home and dry by then, and if more players had played like him in possession we would have been.

My motm .

It's not rocket science is it. Play Horne at the back when we are defending and bring him back to 6 when we have the ball! It's were he's going to be playing next years by all accounts. Can't believe Gentle has not done this already to be honest. Russell is class with ball in hand but he's very poor under the high ball. Every time the ball went up today I got flashbacks to Motu Tony!

I called this today, Matty Russel is dynamic with ball in hand but very naive in defence. Polar opposite to Richard Horne.

Far from responsible for a dropped point - the whole team will take that responsibility. Looks great with ball in hand and will be a good SL player. I'm not convinced that will be at FB though - the main thing I think that might prevent that is his lack of height. He isn't a high ball taker and if he wants to be a FB he'll have to get off the ground and challenge and make the ball his. Better than anything we have at that age in that position though it seems.

"he seemed a lot taller"on radio...... why do people slag players off when they havent watched them we all know blunderside is not the most accurate commentary

He's going to be the new Tomkins. The talent is for all to see, sort out his positioning and he's a brilliant player.

joel maybe but nowhere near as good as sam