Oh well, some support it would appear out there for the boy after all, well I never did!!!!

I haven't seen enough of him to form a negative view, and the semi-final aside, I haven't seen much evidence that he is a bad winger. Wingers rely on service, and often on building a partnership with their centre. A winger is only as good as their centre. Look at Ade Gardner!

Given that there is no-one to take over his position, I would rather assess him over near enough a full season and I have no problem with him.

This is a good point. Something that Kear said on Friday night in the Hull KR/Quins commentary says a lot. He was talking about how the absence of Briscoe and Fox would effect Hull KR. He stated that the primary purpose of a winger (and full back) we to to make good first tackle meters, either from dummy half or kick returns.

While this is obviously a role of a winger but surely not the the primary role. I would of thought the first role of winger with ball in hand would be to feed off the service from the rest of his team. Exploiting his pace to make breaks or score tries. Without been too critical of Kear I would says this make his view of the game a little on the negative side. Which seems to be reflected in the amount of service Matt gets going forward.

Well although I agree that the primary role should be to score tries using pace etc the modern game isn't like that any more. A winger that can make 20-30 metres return on every kick is more influencial than the one who scores the tries. There are so many kicks there is more value in the kick return than there used to be. When you get a player like Vainikolo who can return with big yards and also score at the other end then you have the perfect combination. Blanche is like that for us. We lost a lot of team momentum when he was injured.

Far to reasonable, no place for you on here