https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... e-eastmond

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... e-eastmond

Why would we wait for 2019? He is available now. I wonder if Roberts will get his release and Eastmond comes in..

With the potential of Brown retiring and Roberts returning to Oz then we need to taking action now rather than later. Like most I’ve not seen much of Eastman over the last few years and his injury record is also a worry. Could we have Eastman and Patton as our halves in 2019?

And rumours about Patton to Wigan which further fuels the fire.

It will take him a few weeks to adjust, not years like someone said.

Plus he’ll likely play stand off. Maybe centre inside Charnley because Atkins keeps passing to Charnley too early, it’s like he’s not got the ball handling skills of s true centre and he’ll move to back row?

There are loads of options for the lad in our team because we have a few non-specialists, utility players and players who are either not good enough or won’t be here long term.

i'm not convinced, saints shipped him out to play centre in his last season before leaving, i seem to recall him being a bit chris bridge esque in style.

He'll do for me then

These are his Stats while at Wasps:
16/17 = 16 appearances and 2 Tries
17/18 = 8 appearances and 2 Tries
Hardly inspires confidence.

where are we looking for yawnion stats?

I got it off the Wasps website, I struggle with quoting pages on here I'm afraid!

www.wasps.co.uk/players-staff/pl ... e-eastmond try this!

www.wasps.co.uk/players-staff/pl ... e-eastmond try this!

Even if Eastmond can get back to being an above average league player (which I don’t have much confidence about) why would we use such a slice of the cap (even with the dispensations) in such a player when that sort of salary would get us a really decent current centre or half? Got nothing against Eastmond but why the sudden love-in over him? He was a good developing player with some faults before he left. Now he’s past his peak in Union and suddenly he’s the answer to our problems? I’d rather take a punt on offering Jake Trueman a huge contract, at least he’s just starting and shows potential. Jordan Turner is a better current stand off option than Eastmond. Or Lui.

They look fantastic to me...even worse than Charnley!!

...you have to realise that scoring tries don't happen at RL regularity. Sometimes you don't even get tries in union...that doesn't happen in league.

I stand by that claim... especially at 450k a season!

That sounds a bit boring... I hope ITV never show it on prime time TV on a Saturday afternoon.

Given how long the ball is actually in play for in Union, 8 games is probably the equivalent of 3 RL games, not having a pop btw mentioning it in relation to match fitness

Rugby League is fast becoming very kick oriented like Union.

Fast....how fast have we moved that way in the last 100+ years?

Waste of money going for Eastmond and would be a disappointing return to buying crocks.

He isn't injured.

I suggest increasing the tackle count to let players have more ball in hand . Maybe 10 tackles,let the ref use all his digits.

There are more kicks than there used to be BUT our scrums take up next to no time in comparison. We don't have line outs and 6 tackles take a minute or less. In addition at less time is used up on goal kicks as there are far less on average. Which is why I said the ball is in play far more in RL.

I don't think anyone disagrees with that. I was just asserting that in my view there are far more kicks than there used to be*. Last attacking tackle, kicking early in count and "game management".

RL scrums are a joke so I don't think we gain much from citing that.

*In 2003 Shaun Long had the most attacking kicks at 131. In 2017 Danny Brough made 184, in 2016 Mark Sneyd made 194. So basically an increase of 45%. One of the reasons the game is boring in the main.