Going into this season I thought we had no-one to do a job at fullback for us and always thought Byrne was a waste of a contract. He totally proved me wrong on both counts against Wigan.

Well said that man.I was in the south west corner when he made that tackle and we all jumped back with the impact.Thought he had put himself out for the season with that cruncher.On a night when we were remembering 2 of our old players how apt that our full back should inflict an Arthur Keegan type tackle on the Wigan player.Well done Todd Byrne and it's nice to know that your fellow players appreciated what you did more than some on here did.

Very good defensive display by Byrne

So we need someone who is slow, crap under the high ball and can't tackle?

Nah...Wigan can keep Mathers!

Behind Radford id say he was our best player



Tony will have a job getting his place back if Byrne carrys on like that.

Wow, what a change of heart based on one game!!!

He showed what he can do when fully fit and playing in his preferred position. TBH he showed promise at full back every time he played last season and i was impressed with him at centre at the start of last year too. Tough choices when Motu is fit.

Bit like when Shaun Briscoe made his debut for your lot

I was one of them

My thoughts too. Good to have a dependable player to be able to bring in and know he will do a very good job for the team. However he is not first choice in any of the positions he can play.

Indeed , Hall should be that player.

Its pretty obvious that Byrne, G Horne, Hall, Whiting etc wont be first choice in the 17 when all our players are fit and if we could have brought a centre in like we were trying to.



For now Agar made his selections, we won the game and the players under pressure really performed. It would be a terrible more by Agar to change a winning team to put in Hall or Motu if he is back.

Depends if he sticks to his words about playing horses for courses. The weakest part of the Celtic team is their defence and we need to exploit that by having as many attacking players playing as we can.



That said it would be harsh on Byrne.

If Motu is fit i'd put him on the bench.

So would I but not because I think Byrne had a great game on Friday (he was solid, nothing more) but because I dont think Motu could handle a full 80 so coming off the bench would be less pressure for him. If Motu was "fully fit" he would be straight back at FB for me.

No need for Motu and Byrne in the same squad, its one or the other for me. We can't be wasting bench spots on the assumption it's unfair on players. We need the best 17 so tough choices have to be made.

Motu would purely be in to get 20 mins of match fitness. I'd have him on the bench and may even use him to spell Berro for 20.

Celtics defending around the ruck has been poor.



Danny Houghton would have a field day if he was to spell Berro.

Think thats what we'll go with anyway. Motu may be better getting the fitness built up more before we throw him into a game. At least with Byrne playing well we dont need to rush him back this time.

This is an area we must exploit, Like you say ,thieve been awful in this department especially against Salford. Berrigan will be better for his run to.

One thing i like about Celtic though ,is the expansive style of rugby there trying to play.

They do play exciting expansive rugby but usually when they are 20 points down!





I am sure they will be very keen to put on a show for their home crowd on Saturday.

Yeah they do play a good style of rugby and their main strike play is the inside ball to Duggan behind the PTB which is a area we have struggled with due to lazy defenders.

TODD IS A COD!

If Byrne plays like this week in, week out then Tony will and should be on the bench. Apart from that one mistake he caught everything and stopped everything. Watching him set himself for a one on one tackle you could see he was confident. I like Tony but he makes me nervous.