Max Malins

I know it's not their first team, but the players they have are molded the Saints way, and they managed to move us around, and we needed to find a solution, and that's what half-time gave us, an opportunity to find that solution, and we sorted it pretty quickly.

Indeed, and I mean, the, the, the key question before the game is, and we've seen it last week at Cornwall as well, that Max Malins starting at 10, a position he perhaps hasn't played an awful lot of over the last 10 years or so, but he did start out there.

I mean, what, what was the thinking behind moving Max into that position for these two games?

Firstly, giving him exposure as a 10.

And after the Pi- Pirates game, there are certain people, perhaps in this Zoom room, spot wearing a very bright shirt, who, uh-

[laughs]

... who weren't exactly, uh, enamored of, uh, Max Malins at 10.

But one particularly second half, Max had a fantastic game, and a little backward pass on the touch line, well, right in front of me, was just something outstanding.

It's mental.

Against Max Malins and Charlie Bracken.

Is

it Charlie Bracken? It's one of the Bracken

brothers, yeah.

So, I mean, the Bracken brothers are no, you know, they're not exactly, but Max Malins? Yeah.

So

I,

It's very, very difficult.

Yes, my seven is another person with Saracens, but I've gone for Max Malins at seven, which feels quite low from where we've had him.

I've certainly seen him before.

I think he's been class.

8th, Ben Redshaw.

7th, Tom de Glanville.

6th, Max Malins.

5th, Joe Carpenter.