Semi was a great impact player. I’d have liked to have kept him and I don’t think we saw enough of him in a Quins shirt, but some of the comments I’m reading here are over-rating him quite a bit while under-rating Evans.
We’re losing Robshaw’s work-rate, defence, organisation and breakdown ability. Evans isn’t a highlight reel player, but he’s a lot closer to replacing what we’ll miss than Semi would have been.
We still have Dombrandt and Esterhuizen coming in if you want to see offloads etc.