Is he the answer to our scrum half problems?

No. Quota and Salary Cap spring to mind!!

no..

He is clearly not SL standard..Tansey is our solution imo

Isnt he? Leave Tansey were he is and play a proper scrum half imo. Seem to remember Webbos got a decent kicking game on him too.

true, great rugby brain and a excellent role model.

But IMO he's found his true calling in coaching.

No he is not.....if he was he due to the fact decent h/backs are like rocking horse shiit he would be playing for a SL team...he is a NL1 player who has decided to go into coaching..

I hope not, I couldn't stand that site again. Once was more than enough



Thats how he was supposed to look

Totally agree...a great bloke as well who is dedicated to the sport and will do well in coaching imo.

Not like a hkr fan to be living in the past

It was a horrid sight to see him in your shirt, although it was a good game

No not good enough, we have options available to cover Long, Agar just wont see them, Tansey is our most creative player even when Long plays and from what I have seen probabally a better kicking game which is the most important aspect in my opinion, I know he is definetely not a natural 7 but he is our best option for the short term, he just has something about him that others dont, Ben Hornby is a similar example of that it can be done, if anything bringing in another back for cover to free up Tansey would be more benificial, Houghton is also worth a shout in my opinion smart player with a good kicking game, just not Horne and Washy.

Not one of Tanseys biggest fans but as an oppo fan I'd rather see hi tied up in the middle of the park rather than coming into the line and attacking the fringes

Berrigan to scrum half he has played there before and can do a job alongside Horne. Tansey is our main danger man out wide I dont see the point in changing that.

Its not ideal, but Webster is not good enough in my opinion and you cannot underestimate how bad Horne and Washbrook playing together are, it needs to be done in.

I wouldn't be surprised to see agar split the half backs again.

Stick Horne and Washbrook together and our season is over. Tansey, although preferred at full back, is by far the most creative player left in the team and needs to play 7, Whiting can do a job for us at FB.

Definitely. Washy is just too ponderous at HB. We have a a decent enough option in what you've described - question is whether Agar will go for it.

When Long signed he mentioned that their were some good young half backs at the club , not sure who he was referring to though of course it is a big step up to SL level.

Washy should be nowhere near our 17 full stop.

Washbrook shouldn't be anywhere near our 17. He is simply not good enough. If he is our answer at HB for the rest of the season, we are finished and our season might aswell end now.

Another Graeme Horne who plays lots of positions and is ordinary at all of them.

If we have any chance at all without Longy, Agar needs to give his head a bang and put Tansey in there or find a way to bring in a SH, either from the lower leagues or a quota player from Oz with Berrigan or Cusack being released.

The most frustrating thing for me is both our h/backs are probably in the highest paid bracket in our squad...

Played 4/5 games together, and the odds of them playing together in the future are slim.

That is the point. Was saying to Mr B last night we have all our Scrum Half eggs in a soon to be 34-year-old basket. No one coming through that will be ready to step up in 2012 never mind 2011. Although having said that we're not alone in not developing internal options in the halves. The Mylers/Eastmonds of this world are the exception rather than the rule.

For this reason, would it be worth targeting Tansey as Sean Long's replacement and giving him the next year being coached intensively by Long and Webster as such? Full back is arguably a role that's easier to fill by others and where there are more options available. Just a thought.

The young uns have to be tested at SL level sooner or later so lets grow some balls and give one of them a game at SH and find out while the opportunity is there for them with Longy out,
other clubs do it with various degrees of success and its a gamble worth taking imo as the kid could start and play at least 50-60 minutes with one of the others mentioned for the role being around to spell him if needed.

just gonna post the same muddyboots, surely its tiime to bring thru one of the young guns in a problematic postition