Originally Posted by
Sheikh
I'd be surprised if Jake Ball goes from playing for Wales and the Scarlets to playing just for Paly; it seems a bit hard on who he'd be up against. I also haven't heard of any major injuries he's picked up.
So while it's speculation that he'd come to the Force, there's no other professional rugby employment in Western Australia, and moving to another side would be uprooting his family who are settled and haven't seen him for months.
But if we had Thrush, Rodda, Ball & McCauley as locks, and FLW, Anstee, Stander, Koteka and Callan as back-rows that's not a bad set of 2nd & 3rd rows.
With Robinson, Kaitu'u and Holmes we've got a handy starting forward pack and just need to build the front-row bench strength (Wagner's good but a step down still, and Abra and Winchester have potential, but I'm still not 100% sold on Ready - when he's great he's great but when he's not he's awful!)