Lawrence is a bench player at best. He rode on the coat tails of a wonderful team in 2013 and performed strongly, but he is no forward leader.
We definitely need two starting props. It's easy to look over our side and see familiar names and think we have good cattle, but if you dig a little deeper, you'll find the players we are pinning our hopes on, all looked good as fringe players and stop gaps, but when they form the nucleus of the team, there's trouble.
A lot of our starting 17 are guys that you'd love to have coming off the bench or covering for a week or two here and there, but when a 30+ year old journeyman who only established himself as a regular first grader two and half years ago is your marquee prop, you've got to tap into the market, and badly!
The way Lussick owned Lawrence in the match at Pirtek earlier in the year, was embarrassing for me as a Manly supporter.