St Helens Wolf:
Our first choice spine - Walker, Currie, Williams, Sneyd, Dufty, is very good. Lindop is an exciting prospect at centre and King is worth his cap money, due to his 'club trained' dispensation, whilst Ashton is a top class winger. Thewlis is ok.
Where we are weak is in the pack. Yates, Crowther, Philbin - all try hard but just aren't big enough (maybe Wood also falls into this category). You could afford to have any one of them in the pack, but not all together. Similar with Holroyd at second row, works hard but lacks size. Then we have a big prop in Musgrove who shows the odd glimpse of what he should be offering, but then reverts to type, and Russell who simply isn't good enough.
I'm pretty happy with most of our regular starting pack. Vaughan, Walker, Harrison, Fitzgibbon, Currie, all fine. The problems we have are at right-side second row, where we haven't adequately replaced Nicholson, and in the back-up areas that you have identified. When it comes to the bench, it's all much of a small-sized muchness, I'm afraid.
