Whilst the opening poster is way over the top with this ultimatum about Kear and the playoffs. he does raise a valid point about players playing in their prefered positions - as many on here have mentioned through the season. I know for many games we have had to make do and mend, with makeshift line ups, Demetriou appears to play his best in the 3/4, and Grix yet again showed himself as wortthy for a run at 6 - rather than reshuffling the pack after an hour and putting each of them into their (in my opinion) most influential position.



Grix needs a run at 6, and Demetriou needs to be back in the centres - how we make provisions for this is a moot point, but it should happen in my opinion.

indeed. again for me today we lost shape and balance when we had both hookers on the field and thus not spelling them properly. for one set we had obst and drew stood in the attacking line with grix and jd at acting half. why? i'm sure it contributed to our apparent lack of direction throughout the match, we didn't play to any defined plan and didn't lay any real platform consistently

I would move him to second row right now, got the strength and power lacks the distribution, today there was an ideal opportunity to pass the ball to murphy and open up the cas defense but it was blown away by him keeping the ball

I would move him on and put his wage to better use.

not for me. you mention murphy and maybe he will go on to be a success in the centres, i certainly hope he develops and gets his chance. however on todays showing he's not there yet he got dominated in the tackle pretty much every time. i accept he's not played first team for a while

that agree too he's now failing to respond, I have taught my lad at his young age that the winger is for running in the tries and not to be greedy and he responds and uses his winger,

he is showing no faith in his wingers



as far as john kear how anybody from trinity can call for him to leave is beyond me, you only have to look at the work he has done who would we get to replace him anyway

Today Murphy carried the burden of having Atkins as his centre, he did everything that was required of him to good effect IMO as he has done all season when given the chance, in fact there was one point in the game in the second half when he was playing Cas on his own in defence. Atkins has had more than his chance and failed to kick on, there is now a player in Murphy that is waiting his chance to oust glamour boy, I hope JK doesn't wait too long to give him that chance otherwise we might lose another good home grown player.

At the moment, I can't see anything at all to suggest Murphy could make a better centre than Atkins.

That's probably because you've only seen him on the wing

Murphy is a centre, came into the academy as a centre and was being coached as a centre before he made the step up to the first team, given half the time that Atkins has had to prove himself as a centre at first team level he will prove to be twice the player.

haywire...murphy can pass the ball..prima donna doesn't..as for RDM..you are a complete and utter fool..remember that jk is stuck with the majority of the squad he inherited. last year people were slagging wilkes, this year imo he has stepped up..so called loyal wakey supporters slagged snitch coming back..also been great...brought back korky..another inspired decision...peterson has been unlucky but outside atkins, he might as well not be there and he has had injuries. we have made massive strides this year and next year with so many players leaving jk will show us his true abilty as coach



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It would be interesting to see the two switch, Atkins playing outside of Murphy. I just think Atkins is wasted at centre and unless the line is begging, which happens few and far between, the move often breaks down with Atkins and his inability to pass to his wing.

In that case, then fair enough. I don't watch the academy. As I said, not seen anything myself that suggest he has the power or skill to play centre - but this is based on SL games only. From what I have seen, he could potentially make a good SL winger - but if he has shown more in the Academy/Alliance then it remains to be seen if he can do it at the highest level.