I just watched the highlights and must say that i was impressed with the finishing ability of Morton v Catalan, he looks to have great speed and knows his way to the tryline, what a great asset Wakey now have with two good finishers on the wings, Luke George being the other.

The lads done well ever since he broke into the first team, hopefully Blanch will have to work to get back the wing berth and not just be dropped in.

I agree no disrespect to Blanch, the more young English players the better especially if they have come through our system, for years most other teams have had them but we have lagged behind for all the reasons that have been posted in the past.

Agreed he had a good game. Kear gave him some special praise on BBC radio interview after the game saying he is making the step up very well but he always had great ability to get through To score in the younger ranks.

I am of the opposite opinion here, think we need to be careful with him and use him sparringly when Blanch is available. I know it will go against the grain, but we need to keep him protected a bit if we can, I appreciate "if your good enough, your old enough" but I really do think these young lads need time to develop physically and mentally and the best way to do this is spells in and out of the first team rather than a prolonged run if we can help it. He really does look an outstanding prospect and is playing really really well from the 2 games I have seen and look forward to him playing for us for a long time to come.



Law of averages says that sooner of later he will have a stinker, as all players do, I just think we need to shield him from this as much as we can for now - so his confidence remains in tact.



I am not suggesting Blanch comes back in soon as he is fit, but let him have a couple of games in the alliance first.

I agree Tommy. Morton in a similar fashion to Murphy has shown what he is capable of and looks very impressive. He is definitely one for the future and i've no doubt in time he'll be a starting winger for us. That said, it may not be until 2012 that he becomes a starting winger.



Give him time, a couple of games here or there and with time he'll gain experience, knowledge and most importantly physically and mentally will become able to deal with the demands placed upon full time pro's.

Of course we need to be careful but whilst Morton is playing like this he should be starting in the 1st team. Only a drop in form should see him go back to the academy. I watched him play for the 18s last year and i think this kid is very good in all aspects of wing play and has fantastic athletic ability. IMO he is further on with regards to development at this age than Murphy was. He is good enough so play him. I think we should not do what Noble did to Ainscough last year (ie look to drop him whilst he was in form). All players make mistakes over time. It is up to the likes of Morton to dust himself off from the mistakes he is likely to make in the future and come back better. To not pick him because he may make an error is wrong!

My thoughts exactly, he will have a stinker, that professional sport and how he recovers from that is an important and necessary lesson to learn. At the moment he is playing well and should keep his position on merit. If/When he plays poorly or is looking jaded then perhaps it’s time to give him a break from the first team to re-gather some confidence, if needed, in the u20’s.

yeah credit to the lad hes come in made some really important tackles especially down at Quins 2 try saving tackles. He also knows where the try line is. Impressed with the kid !

Do you not think that is taking unessecery risk? I appreciate what your saying about 'sink or swim' - but I think its too high risk in my opinion. If, and fingers cross it won't, he has a stinker against Saints away and Francis Meli dominates him physically under the high ball - the crowd get on his back and he concedes a bucket load down his wing. How much damage could a scenario like this do to the lads confidence? The other poster cited Ainscough as an example of the dangers of dropping them when in form, but you could thrown Kevin Penny back as an argument for protecting them.



I think we should ease the youngsters in and not put too much pressure on them - but its a nice problems to have.

I understand what you're saying and in some respects I agree, I don’t expect Morton to be on the wing for the entire season, not yet anyway, but I feel mollycoddling him and not allowing him to make mistakes will be more harmful then not. I know there is a fine line, as we saw with Mark Field and how keeping faith with him when he was playing poorly affected his confidence and subsequently his career, but I just don’t think dropping him whilst he’s in good form for fear of a mistake is the way to go.



Kevin Penny was over hyped by the Sky team because of his pace and nothing much more. Morton, in my view, has already shown he has a greater RL ability then Penny and the fact that he’s doing it under the radar bodes well for him. I agree if the pressure and expectation was placed on him to such an extent as it was placed on Penny it may be beneficial to rest him here and there.

Again, agree in part - and you cite Mark Field as a better example than the one I gave with Penny. Suppose we will have to agree to disagree, and hope he doesn't have the "stinker" and its all academic.