A couple of things posted here, firstly that Liddle is injury prone. This is a term which is thrown around without any questioning of the logic behind it. People are neither injury prone, nor not injury prone; it is simply a matter of blind luck as to whether a player gets injured or doesn't get injured. Have a look at the St. George game today and watch how Nightingale picks up a dislocated elbow. Is he prone to elbow injuries? No, just bad luck in a highly physical game. What about Benji and his shoulder woes some years back. Looking at him now, you couldn't say that he's prone to shoulder injuries but he was labelled as injury prone back then. In fact, shoulder reconstructions, otherwise known as rotator cuff injuries are very common in the wider community and this is what Liddle suffered in both shoulders. Plain old dumb luck that he suffered rotator cuff tears in both shoulders at the same time.
Secondly, the need for a back up hooker. All clubs have a hooker running around in ISP but why? Well, presumably it would be as cover for the first grade hooker and if the ISP hooker is not good enough for that, it's down to poor recruiting, something that Wests Tigers are not immune to. I agree that somebody like Matt Parcell would be good to recruit but Jacob will be a great NRL Number 9 for us, going on to be a rep player.