Though he looked OK against a very phsical pack on Monday - he even weighed in with a couple of bell ringers.
Poor miss on Horne for the final try but, aside from that, he looks to be turning into a decent SL forward after not many appearences. Still a little light for a prop, perhaps, but an excellent long term prospect.

He still managed a knock on though. If he gets through two consecutive games without knocking on, I will believe he has started to make real progress!

Other than that, I agree with you.

Do you mean were It was stole off him or was there another one.

No, the one where he made a total muck up of the PTB. It was clearly his knock on. No doubt about it.

I didn't realise he had it stolen? I only remember Soliola losing the ball to a thief.

Ah that one.
Funnily that was one of those decisions that could have gone either way as Westerman left his knee In and could have easily been a pen to us.
He does need to work on a few things as all the kids do.
But I think he's come through a really tough period of games with great credit. Will do wonders for his development I hope.

That was the one where somebody had their hands in. I agree with you on his knock on count but in all fairness to the lad, that one wasn't his fault.

Oh, I agree. Like I say, it's just the knock ons! I think he's done one in every match, some more costly than others. But apart from that I think he is making nice, steady progress. I hope he keeps fit so that we can watch the progress continue.

Assuming it ever happens but when we start getting people back from injury I'd like to see him on a dual reg to help him keep developing

If we had a full squad, he'd probably be your 18th man. Certainly if we had a better injury situation then Dixon, Ashurst and McGennis will be competing for reletive scraps of game time and loan/dual reg would be sensible for at least one of them.

To be fair to McGennis, the miss on Horne for the last try was actually 80% Jammers tackle to make. His lunge was more desperation as a last ditch attempt.

I must've been dazzled by adrenelin. I just remeber seeing McG prone on the reply as Horne broke clear.

When I first saw this kid breaking into the Saints team, I thought to myself aye up Saints have got a good backrower there. But with series of injury's he's suffered and the game time that's cost him. It looks to have really set him back. He still shows good signs, such as the neat little offloads he produces. But it's so unfortunate for the lad that these injury's have set him back. You only have to look at Wigan's Liam Farrel and how much he has developed over the past 18 months by playing week in week out. And because of that Farrel for me has become one of the best backrowers in the league.