Lewis was not the back up no 7 bud. Nu brown was bought to fill that role. Lewis was playing in the centres. I like how yez all blame pay for things that were out of his control. Not thanking him for noticing these problems and fixing them. Loud mouth dickheads.
Speaking of loud mouth dickheads...you can nominate yourself and your derision of Holland...oh and add hypocrite know nothing loud mouth as well bud.
Nu brown was bought by Hasler primarily as the dummy half, secondary halves cover, cos he didn't re-sign Lichaa bud.
Lewis came to us in 2016 and played 10 games at 5/8 before sustaining a season ending lung injury. He played 2017 in the halves. Prefers halves and considers himself a half and began the pre-season as half and only went to centre a few games into this season.
So at the beginning of the season when the Top 30 was being assessed, Lewis was the ISP 7 (or 6) and as such either he, or the other half in Cleeland should have been put into Top 30.
My critisism of Pay stands. It was an oversight and at least one of the clubs second grade back up halves should be picked and available to fill in for halves injuries in fg.
Pay is not immune from criticism or from fans pointing out shortcomings....pretty similar to your selective bagging of Holland which you see to think is ok. Get off your biased high horse bud.