Quote ="Harold Rigby Jnr"Craig Hall is a better FB than McNally for mine, Peter M'atautia has been excellent and is SL class. I would rather have Bodene Thompson than Glenn Stewart. I would actually have Hutchison than Drinkwater, who will become a real asset for us IMO. We are not losing anything by replacing Higson with Evans personally. I take the point about Ridyard, especially in this division.
It is an issue that so many changes have all been made in one go without any continuity and questions do need to be asked about the merits of that decision.
This is a side now extremely low on confidence and it is difficult. A new team that in all 7 games played have only experienced winning once. Sadly losing is habit forming but break it we must and break it we will. We have to.
We desperately need a quality 6 in there to help Hutchison, short term I am inclined to place Hall there and I do think we need another grunt.
Derek is under pressure like any of the boys as it is a real challenge to now secure top 4, and let's be honest if we don't hit it there is no real point in anyone committing £60k of your own money each and every month. Pointless. However no one is throwing the towel in yet as far as I can see.'"
I'd agree that Hall is a better full back than McNally, but I saw him more as a like for like replacement for Brown in the squad, and he's probably a better winger than Dawson. McNally is also a considerably better full back than Owens.
I'd be tempted to give Matautia a game at 6, running off Hutchinson, to at least give us some pace and elusive running in the middle. Hall could play there, but that would give us a problem at full back. Maybe the extra responsibility and a bit of pace next to him would do Hutchinson some good.
