Swift is ready made for the FB role. Would love to see him given a go there.

When Lomax first moved to fullback, he was a revelation. Was it 7 tries and 7 assists in 3 big, consecutive games?
Ignoring the standard Saddened exaggeration factor, Lomax has had the same problem as many of our players - consistency. We know he can deliver, but its not everyweek that we're seeing it. With Lomax, that's because of his condition. Half the games he's played in the last 18 months, he's looked jaded, getting up slow form the play the ball and receiving treatment throughout and that's when he's not sat in the stands.

Conditioning has to be looked at. We're de to change our coach and this appears to be a massive floor in the current set up. Whether is hiring a head coach with a proven trackrecord in that area, or headhunting a new head of strength & conditioning.

Maybe if we sorted that area, we wouldn't need to be signing a 4th choice full back

To me Lomaxs play the balls look more psychological than fitness, didn't he tear a leg muscle in 2012/3? He's not seemed comfortable on it since.

That said his inability to go a season without picking up a season ending injury is enough cause for concern.

As for the wider conditioning team question, we have a surreal mix of players. If our conditioning team were as bad as some imply on here, there's no way we could have players like Jones and LMS who string 50-60 games together, but we also have the opposite end of the spectrum *cough* wheeler *cough* - maybe our conditioning regime is "riskier" than others, and just doesn't suit some of our players, but it's benefits outweigh losing a few on the way?

For me this the worst conditioned Saints team I,ve ever known in the Superleague Era which is attributing to the inability to play for the full 80 mins. We don,t even look fit when we do the warm up routines.
I hope the next coaching team see this problem as a priority, otherwise its the same again a soft underbelly and being bullied by the teams with better physical presence.

Aside from injuries, do we look like a fit team? Do we look explosive and powerful? Obviously we do to a degree, we've just finished top, but our line speed is slow and we're not great wrestlers.

All things considered, I think there's probably a big room for improvement in this area. We all seem to mention Apollo's reign with fondness and we may have been a bit luckier with injuries, but I vividly remember the visable change in the players from one season to the next (maybe 2005 to 2006). The RFL announced new guidelines for refereeing the ruck that we're going to spped up the play the ball. Because of this, Anderson made sure the squad we're leaner and more mobile. You couldn't tell with Roby, but the difference in Cunningham's physique was massive (I may have been remembering that backwards, we may have beefed up when the PTB was slowed).

Bring back Apollo!