That's what I thought, I don't get it. The main reason Jowitt hasn't played much is injuries rather than anything else. I doubt we'd have taken Escare on loan had he not been injured.

from what I have seen a good signing -he has got some pace

He looks more than that to me. I've only seen him twice tbh but he looks solid under the high ball, good support play, great hands and good on his feet.

The only query I have is his defence, it's looked ok on the two occasions I've seen him, but, I have not had the heart to watch the two defeats against London. Now although we lost both games we still scored a lot of points, in which case I assume London's defence was none too hot, anybody care to comment on Walkers part in this?

Please don't make me watch those two games

I don't want to be too negative.. but i just can't get excited by this. Hope i'm proved wrong but I think Hampshire is a better player and also offered ideal cover for the halves. Could have then kept Hooley as back up to Jowitt if Hampshire was needed at HB. That would be a good position to be in IMO as now we are surely going to need cover for the halves. Be interesting to see who we get in for that and we'll never know but would also be interested to see which would have been the most cost effective.

Hooley was never going to make it I'm afraid if he was he'd have been used last season and he wasn't.