Raggs, I will have some if what you are having, optimism is one thing but if you can't see that we are short there I don't know what to say. Our locks are prem standard, if you mean Newcastle or Worcester standard. If you mean top four, no, just no.
Launch, Gaskell is a reasonablly strong combination, and then all the others are fourth choice locks, or fifth by top four standards.
Sarries bring on Kruis and Skelton.
I said short on depth, I mean that we are just not top 2 or even 4 standard, I don't for one minute think that the list of locks is as strong as our list of back row options.
Let us be clear, if Dai finishes ninth to twelfth next year he will likely be gone, and three premiership standard teams will fill those slots with premiership quality secind rows.