yeh clarke should be in the 17 and rob wire is starting to make a good point there. clarke is good at organising us aswell. leave the hooker position alone it is working wonders with monas and higham

I'd put him on the bench ahead of Vinnie, they are both utility players but I feel Clarke is the better of the 2.

I'd have Clarke at 13, I think he's better than both the Andersons.

he better than vinnie but not louis pushing it a bit there. shopuld be on bench as utility as he can play in alot of positions

i dunno how happy i'd be with bringing clarke in, or anyone else now at 13, our improved defence in the middle of the park has come about due to binge making himself a fixture there. That'd take a huge part of our good form out of the team doing that.

Clarke should be nowhere near the team.



Higham is a better option as an interchange hooker, and we also have youngsters who should be ahead of him as a substitute for the back row positions.



Still can't believe he was given a four year deal, a scandalous decision and one that Tony Smith would never have made.

Again! He picked him to play internationals.

doesnt mean he would have given him a 4 year deal though does it,imo and only mine i reckon even when fit again he would need at least a month in the reserves to get some game time under his belt again,sl is that close this season that anyone not up to speed would have a detrimental effect on the team thus giving the boo boys more ammo.not a great fan of clarkes but i would sooner see him as a fast running second row/loose coming off the bench and there are worse out there (somewhere)!!!!

He got picked for England simply because of the lack of available hookers, i stand to be corrected here but i seem to remember we had quite a few injuries at the time, Newton was injured, i think Higham was injured as well, i think their was a problem with Diskin and if memory serves me right James Roby`s wife was about to give birth and he made himself unavailable. I thought he was average at best against a weakened kiwi side.

Newton was dropped for Clarke wasn't he? Don't recall him being injured.

correct and diskin just wasn't selected.

Thats why i said i stood to be corrected as i wasn`t 100% sure, i think it was the year after that Newton fractured his cheekbone towards the back end of the season. Diskin was an odd one as he had been in good form for Leeds.