If we were going to bring in help it would have been Brown.
But from what I see Gould doesn’t want Band-Aid fixes. He doesn’t want stop gaps he wants to do it properly. Brown would have done well as a 13. Bring his aggression and hard running. And you’d know he’d be fired up after not playing much. But at the end of the day he is a 12 month singing and would take time off the Preston’s, tanners and possibly Morrin etc. I guess that’s why Vaughan wasn’t extended either. Yes he was our best prop last year. But we aren’t competing this year. And he won’t be here when we are a threat. So you basically waste your cap space.
But giving time to pele, Preston etc this year will help up for the next 5 years even though they might have weaknesses in their game and make errors. The run and the experience gained won’t hurt.