Sutcliffe is already a stand off. He also clearly deserves first shot there next year.

Sinfield played at LF until he was about 32! Sinfield's brain and kicking game took us around the park. Sutcliffe will need to develop that. He'll need to be strong enough to make game changing decisions. Is he a leader? Probably not yet.

You might want to check the line-ups for the 2004 GF and the 2005 WCC.

Liam reminds me of John Holmes a little. I reckon he'll hack it in the halves no sweat

He might want to go back further and check the line ups when Glanville was our LF and Sinny DEFINATELY played SR!

As for Sutty he's very much a 6 and has proved as such the game management side will come eventually and until then we have the likes of Mags ,Burrow off the bench and an experienced 9 coming in so i'm sure we'll be ok.

Will we miss Sinfield? Absolutely but we'll adapt and evolve into a different team just as we have in the past.

He won't, why let facts get in the way of a good close season rant

Don't forget the 2003 and 2005 CC finals.

I feel for Sutcliffe. He's on a hiding to nothing. All you lot building him up like the Messiah. As soon as he has a bad game, you'll want him out of the team. Just like with Mac after Wembley.

You couldn't be more inaccurate if you tried.

I think Him summed it up nicely with- Eh?

You talk more b0ll0x than your namesake. Quote one post of mine where I called for BM to be kicked out. I don't think anyone thinks Sutcliffe is anything other than a guy who's earned his shot at first team rugby. You however seem to think we should opt to buy in talent on every occasion rather than give our own home grown talent a go.

This is spot on. In 2/3 years will we judge Sutcliffe as a success or a failure at the HB role.....nobody knows only time will tell. But I'm happy for him to be given the chance at least.



Nobody thinks he's the messiah, and most accept he'll need time as it won't always be plain sailing and he'll have his ups and downs whilst learning the role.