To me, the good thing about this signing is that I can't imagine Jimmy signing him without talking to Brian Mac as he chose him for the test side. Mac must have given him a decent report on the lad. This gives me some confidence that we have had a good second opinion about him. Can you imagine Mac telling Jimmy to sign him if he thought he was poor?

I think what we need at the moment is a decent organiser not necessarily a world star. I think Deacs was one of our best halves but the kicking helped him make a big name for himself. I thought his general scrum half play was good but not great but that was what we needed as we had Robbie to be the twinkle toes of the team - a little like Gaskell. So if he turns out to be a hard working organiser he might just do a good job for us.

Brian Mac didnt choose him for the test side unless he was picking opposition team too. Brian Mac coached USA, Jacks played for Canada





That said I'd guess we'll have asked BC his opinion of him having seen him play live.

Well the Kyle Wood rumour can pretty much go away now. He's been given squad number 15 by Huddersfield, so they clearly think he's going nowhere.





(Admittedly Ferres has been given 11 despite being transfer listed, but the point remains)

Luckily the guy is here to play rugby, not appear on Eggheads.

We'll soon be able to see for ourselves, apparently

Guess in your view you don't need any intelligence to be able to read games, understand tactics and communicate with the rest of the team then?

to be honest, there are many sports stars, very skilled, highly regarded and effective sportspeople, across many different sports, who come across as not the sharpest knife in the box.



Intelligence? innate skill? 'Differently' skilled? I don't pretend to know the answer and I truthfully don't have a clue, but there's clearly a difference between most scientist and doctor etc types and a lot of sports people, musicians or artists.

I agree. If he can steer the team around the field and is a good communicator within the team, I don't care whether he makes the odd slip when being interviewed. Good luck to the lad.

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid

Well it never did Jamie Peacock any harm did it?



Admittedly he became more articulate later in his career but during his Bradford days he sounded like a seal chewing on a penguin during his interviews.



Our own coach and club legend Mr J Lowes was hardly a mastermind contender either.



Therefore, no, I do not see it as being a high priority in RL to be able to quote the works of Kafka.

Isn't that a type of kebab?



Yeah I don't do culture.

Yeah, of course you do, everyone does culture, it is, after all, infinitely varied and the world is full of different cultures and sub-cultures, even within one society.