And that's a long, long time

Radford was outstanding and he position is prop and with a good pack round him he could be a star again this season.

It's a shame for Radders that Agar has taken so to state that he has afuture at prop.
Playing him at LF last season was a poor decision , though at times the choices were somewhat limited.

Hope he comes good and shows us something we didnt see in the last two years, however he had a cracker on Sunday and led from the front so a good start, lets hope he keeps it up however would be surprised if he gets a contract renewal

But, as JTP said, we lose a "quota" player next year - if that was Cusack....

wouldnt you rather we looked for someone younger maybe??
we have a glut of tackling machines in the side, lets get a runner in there !!

Agreed... but in the absence of a good, young, hard-running home-grown (trained) prop I think Radford might be the missing piece for us and at 30 years of age, he's not such a bad age for a prop. It's very early to tell anyway as we've only seen him in the out-and-out prop role in one pre-season friendly - he might end up being useless. Probably ought to start judging mid-season.

know what you mean but to be fair apart from where he actually stands in a scrum what will be different in his game , thats what bothers me as all he did last year was the same as he did on Sunday, just looked a bit fitter on Sunday is all I saw different !
also if Cussack retires as is Muted ( I believe he will be an outstanding prop this year) and we release radford there is a chunk there to go and buy a good prop from either here or overseas...
at that point we should throw a huge brown paper bag full of money at LMS which makes another positive step forwards in our recovery administration rather than Radford if you see my point

Well there's another rumour. Agreed LMS would bean excellent signing as our overseas quota reduces. Let's hope the rumours are true.

would make more sense if we had the wage of Cussack and Radford to use on him as he will no doubt be a shoe in for England at the end of this season so will need a fair wedge I guess, but thats the future unfortunately Radford isnt and the club have now moved past that sentimental part of their history i think

limited-spot on.we had that many injuries agar had no choice but to play him at lf.

agreed he was hung out to dry a little but like you say we didnt have much choice..
Whilst i dont dislike Radders i just wonder how many good tacklers we really need , and when you have a bunch very similar the younger ones must be the choice....
was there much between Radford and Dowes on Sunday ..??.. not a lot but the age!!