Finally someone agrees with me about giving saltonstall a game!

Williams is one of our youngsters.

I do not deny anyone the right to have a negative view, but, I'm in the yet to be convinced by Williams brigade rather than the anti 'mob'.

I don't know how long his run will be but we should all get behind him, hope that he takes this chance yes it might be his last with saltonstall knocking on the door, proves he's worth the shirt, gives TS another selection headache.

How good would that be?

If he doesn't at take it at least we will all be better informed as he will be playing in a winning team rather than a team v Salford/London set up before a big game

If Hodgson is out, it might be Riley at fb, Williams on one wing and Saltonstall on the other.

I haven't seen anything from Williams to make me think he has a future as a first team player at our club.... He just doesn't appear to have the game to cut it at top level.

But, Smith gave him a 3 year contract... so he must see something we dont.

At some point this season i think he will get a decent (ish) run of games in the first team...if he doesnt cut it in those games, then i cant see anything BUT him being moved to the side to let one of the next batch of youngsters into the team for a chance.. Shaw and Saltonstall cant be that far away from getting some first team games.

he is very much in a similar position that Mitchell found himself in... good young player, plenty of good things being said about him from inside the club, yet despite plenty of first team opportunities, Mitchell just didn't deliver as a first team player.

What he said.


I should have worded myself better regarding Williams,ive head how fast he is etc etc but the games ive seen him play ive never seen that,ive seen him have chances to burn opposistion and not do it,ive also seen him have howlers in defence,really how many chances does he need???

So Fatbelly - are all these "negative" comments from key board warriors?
TS must see something there in training but as yet it hasn't reared its head in the P&B

I echo what others have said before me, i'm not anti anyone in our squad, if he could have a break out moment, or give the crowd something to say, yeah, good lad, i'd be right behind him.

However i've seen more moments of laziness from him, giving up on chasing back on a couple of occasions where other players have bust a gut chasing opposition length of the field to our try line.

Smith said Joel is out with a strain this week - hopefully just one week on the sidelines, two maximum.

Just seen him and his brother in sainsbury's says he will be back for saints game.

Don't tell everyone ! Saints will plan for the high kicks in the corner. If Williams plays, they can stick a sick forward on the wing !

Hope so. Saints can't deal with Joel and he's a go to man that will cause havoc amongst an already shaken defence. "Come on the Wire"