I think Wilkin will be but I'm personally keeping my eye on big Mose this year. No excuses this with no pre-season thru injury so I'm looking forward to seeing what the hype is about.

Surely he can put more than 15 mins in this year as he should be as fit as he can be.

Yeah an I wuz told before Christmas but I didn't even tell myself because I didn't want to spoil my own surprise, but my dad was told this was going to happen in Christmas 1962 so beat that.

About as pointless as yours

Apparently he went great guns against Wigan.
If his work rate is up there and he's a tough lad, then he'll fill a good role while the likes of LMS, Sav & Greenwood dip in to do the high impact stuff.

Yes ok

Aye, it was pleasing to hear he had a good game.

How big is he? If he's big and heavy and he likes a graft, I think we may see him doing some of the props work in the middle, certainly indefence, in order that we accommodate the more impact stylee Sav at prop and what seems to be an excess of decent backrowers.

he used to wear 8 for London, didn't he?

He's just over 100Kgs, so big without being massive. He did play a fair bit in the front row last year, but I think that was as much down to London's desperate situation as it was due to his ability to play there. Might be wrong though.

Vea is massive.

So, given the emergence of Sav, Greenwood and Thompson, combined with the coaching staff perhaps shielding Richards from week upon week action, or adjusting for injuries - I think it quite likely we'll go into some weeks with only 3 out-and-out props in the squad, but a troop of big back rowers to make up for it.

I reckon injuries permitting Richards could play ~20 games next year, and the games he doesn't play either Thompson will move up to the front row, or Walker will step in and do a job.

In saying that is there any reason we haven't seen walker throughout preseason? Have I missed something?

He's been injured but think he's fit now. He must have a future at saints as he turned a very good offer down to move to Cumbria

I like Walker, but he's reletively limited going forward and he's actually quite a bit older than Richards, Thompson and Savelio.

I'm not sure what lies ahead for him.