Guess time will tell but great replacement for hood. We have a three quota players on one year deals so guess we can create space

[quote="Scarlet Pimpernell":m9nwfqng]I thought Lino’s contract ends this season. I recall that Atoni improved greatly when the work was shared with DF and good props are hard to come by.[/quote:m9nwfqng] Correct - Atoni improved massively when DF joined him. He has all the ability and I'm confident he will do tbe business now there are quality props in depth.

[quote="1315trinity":2f2sb4bp]Correct - Atoni improved massively when DF joined him. He has all the ability and I'm confident he will do tbe business now there are quality props in depth.[/quote:2f2sb4bp] He did improve for last 1/3 of season and I’m hoping to see that continue.

The situation regarding Walmsley is a bit puzzling to me. If he stayed fit last season he'd have smashed the tries in a season record. I'm confident he would have scored all those tries that Olpherts scored when he lost his place to him through injury. That's taking nothing away from Olpherts who I thought was unlucky not to get another contract. I think Walmsley may be the one to go, especially as we have Russell and the young kid from HKR- but it will be through no fault of his own - he's done everything asked of him and I rate him quite highly. For me he's starting winger with Tom but we'll see how it goes I reckon.

[quote="Trojan Horse":1vqi7365]He did improve for last 1/3 of season and I’m hoping to see that continue.[/quote:1vqi7365] I'm sure you will because there's competition now - look what's happened with Lino!

Thing for me is that I wouldn’t use a quota place on a winger unless it was someone extra extra special like Lesley Vainikolo or John ‘Cicka’ Fergusson. So while Walmsley has done great and he could be good again this season I’d rather use a quota spot on a spine player a front rower or maybe a top class centre