Re: Mitch Brown is a full back : Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:47 pm  

Mookachaka wrote:

......Even if we finish bottom, its not the end of the word as we restart in the middle 8s and hopefully fight for survival.

Hopefully we will not finish bottom but, as you point out (and as HRJnr so sagely did on another thread a couple of days ago) we now have the beginnings of an SL squad - NJ just needs to find his preferred starting combos. A settled SL team that are clued in to one another should waltz through the M8s if need be.

Another game or two in pre-season might have helped but this opening set of fixtures was always likely to be a write-off ( 'though there's a big what if 5 mins from the end of the Leeds game) and with the butcher's bill mounting already in a smallish squad, Neil might be found to have been quite prescient.

Speaking of him, he sent a quick thanks PM to Bongser yesterday agreeing with B's bold statement of last week. Yes, folks, Mitch Brown is a full back

Re: Mitch Brown is a full back : Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:39 am  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Hopefully we will not finish bottom but, as you point out (and as HRJnr so sagely did on another thread a couple of days ago) we now have the beginnings of an SL squad - NJ just needs to find his preferred starting combos. A settled SL team that are clued in to one another should waltz through the M8s if need be.

Another game or two in pre-season might have helped but this opening set of fixtures was always likely to be a write-off ( 'though there's a big what if 5 mins from the end of the Leeds game) and with the butcher's bill mounting already in a smallish squad, Neil might be found to have been quite prescient.

Speaking of him, he sent a quick thanks PM to Bongser yesterday agreeing with B's bold statement of last week. Yes, folks, Mitch Brown is a full back

Mitch Brown is a full back, no doubt there ,and a very good potential Rugby Pundit,I thought he did well on Sky when interviewed at the Wigan V Cronulla game, give the Pies some competition on Sky.

Re: Mitch Brown is a full back : Mon Feb 20, 2017 2:59 pm  

Brown was excellent on Friday and showed his experience by staying deep and covering breaks something which a lot of full backs don't do today, preferring to be in the line and scoring tries.

Does anyone know how Hock is, he only did a 20 minute spell and never came back on.

Re: Mitch Brown is a full back : Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:30 pm  

Twitch wrote:

Brown was excellent on Friday and showed his experience by staying deep and covering breaks something which a lot of full backs don't do today, preferring to be in the line and scoring tries.

Does anyone know how Hock is, he only did a 20 minute spell and never came back on.

Think I've seen it somewhere that Hock had a dead leg so I would think he'll be good to go Friday.

Re: Mitch Brown is a full back : Tue Feb 21, 2017 10:35 am  

Without doubt Mitch Brown at fullback is a major positive to surface from the first two games.
Before the Cas game I had said on here,(along with others) that I thought FB would be Mitch's best position! against Leeds Mitch proved that he is indeed a FB and, a good one too! He had shown some bad defensive flaws at centre and, I suggested he had his bottom smacked for that so, whoever took on that task, it worked a treat
Regardless of what other coaches have said about Hampshire, in the halves, I do think that is where he can play/cover for us he is very lively and enthusiastic on the pitch, all the ingredients required from a half back!