I agree, I just think we'll see bolstering elsewhere if there are to be more incomings. Think Gussy sees Symons/Lewies as being our most frequent first choice pairing with Young, Freeman, Lamb, South all fighting it out for bench and rotation spots. 6 locks is pretty standard depth if you look across the Prem I think - without having seen much of Freeman and Young I'm trying to reserve judgement on our depth in terms of quality there until I've seen them have a few hit outs. I too think we are still a little weak in this area. Nevertheless, I think Gussy is done in the second row.

If you look at numbers across the squad for next season we maybe need another squad player at LH prop with Lambo playing less and less, TH prop if big Josh goes and then I think we're fairly well covered (and this next bit is important...) in terms of numbers at least.

I'm personally just not convinced we have any real quality in our depth at FB. When Mike isn't available it's a massive step down in quality to Chisholm. Morris hasn't really strung enough games together yet so I'm happy to give him more of a chance but he seems to have the injury bug. Lang is not a FB at the moment - either we move him there and play him there frequently or I personally don't feel he's going to have the positional nous required. Reserving judgement on Herron but feels like a longshot to expect him to cement himself as Brownie's successor.

In most other positions we have an obvious deputy. At FB I don't feel like we do. Same can be said for fly half although we're going to have to see what Herron can do. See the following very subjective and by no means definitive breakdown and tell me where you see the weaknesses:

1. Marler (1st choice) / Botta (2nd choice)
2. Baldwin / Crumpton
3. Sinckler / Collier
4. Symons / Freeman or Lamb
5. Lewies / Young
6. Clifford / Lawday
7. Robshaw / Evans
8. Dombrandt / Chisholm

9. Care / Landajo
10. Smith / Herron?
11. Murley / Visser
12. Saili / Tapuai
13. Marchant / Campagnaro
14. Earle / Ibitoye
15. Brown / Chisholm

For me it's still 4/5, 10 and 15.

The 2nd Marquee spot effectively needs to be a player coming in from overseas. With the exception of Saili I can't think who we have signed in the last few years might have dislodged Big Kev as our 2nd Marquee player - so quite likely that he still is. I hope we don't rush into replacing him - if it means not having a 2nd Marquee player next season but then getting it right the following summer I'd be ok with that.

Not necessarily. We could have made one of our own domestic players a marquee - Care for instance or Marchant or Robshaw in order to remove them from the cap. The rule is it can't be a player you've signed from another Prem team so they would all qualify. You can rotate the marquee players every year too.

I agree but the death of Seb Adeniran Olule and the loss of John Okafor and Jonas Mikalcius contribute to that.  All were more exciting prospects than some who have made it through to the main squad (in my opinion, obviously).

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