If there was a possibility of getting a world class stand-off I agree, but seen as we have a quota spot available, we should be aiming to retain Kearney and recruit; BK is our best player.

Personally I think Kearney will go back to NRL. we only got him because he was coming back from a bad injury. now he's proved his fitness think he'll go back. I'm more bothered about retaining l'estrange as think he complements diskin well and don't think o'brien is ready to step up yet. Provided we use the cap/quota space wisely it wouldnt be end of world if kearney didnt agree a new deal. We've a ready made replacement at FB in Royston with adequate backup in sykes,platt,halley and ah van. If we can use kearney's spot to bring in a quality half/ then would be ok with that.

I totally disagree. People are calling out for quality players to be signed for the club and Kearney is exactly that. He has played out of his skin even with some of the tripe around him....imagine what he could do in a good team. I cannot see how getting rid of possibly our best player would be advantageous. Surely we want to be ADDING quality to the team not getting rid of quality and attempting to replace it with quality. We can't afford to get a load of quality players all at once so we need to slowly add to the quality that we have got and slowly phase out the crap

care to point out where I said I didnt WANT us to retain kearney?. All I said was I dont think we'll be able to.

This is what I was referring to. I didn't say you wanted him to go either. All I did was comment on what you had said.

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And I stand by those comments. Ideally we would retain kearney and add quality in other positions as well. But it wouldnt be the end of the world if he did leave as we have decent options in squad already.

With mediocre play making ability and less than average defence i cant see wot the fuss with bk is

You can't be serious Royston hasn't shown anything at fullback yet.

hasnt put a foot wrong there either though, which considering he's been swapping between FB and SO most games to accomodate kearney, is a pretty good going on its own. We'll see best of royston now he's able to concentrate on playing FB without the mucking about.

I think this probably sums up where we are as a club at the minute (and this isn't intended as a dig at you mat).



Praising a player because he hasn't put a foot wrong rather than focusing on good play or offering something different / extra.



IMO, players should, as standard, not be putting a foot wrong.



I appreciate they're only human, but surely this is the bare minimum?

Royston is no Billy Slater, but he has been solid and one of our better players this year.