Had to turn the commentary down when watching the recording. Wilkins's man crush on Tex Hoy was the listening equivalent of having an oversexed poodle constantly trying to hump your leg.

Yeh it was ridiculous.
The one where Austin dropped the ball and Wilkin was crediting Hoy really was pathetic.

I have a bit of an issue with Handley there, he’s one of the leading wingers in SL and has a break on with plenty of space. He should have gone straight at the FB and then swerved back to the wing to go past him, a simple in and out. There’s no way Hoy would have stopped him, and there’s no need to look for Austin who was being closed down at a rate of knots by Swift from the other side.

Poor play by Handley, he should have done much better.

It was a brilliant break by Handley though. Give him some credit. Wrong decision at end but split second call…..

John Atkinson would have done Hoy as you described it. Atky once told me he never made eye contact with a full back as he came infield, the lack of eye contact made any full back slow down even more/ freeze. Atkinson then turned on the gas and went away on the outside. He had great balance though which helped.

Maybe giving him the centre role is causing him to overthink?

Won’t be many making this trip, how many do we normally get? 500-1k?

This will sound harsh. Whilst the break itself was good, it’s what he’s paid to do as one of the leagues premium wingers he should be doing it most weeks, perhaps more than once per game. He made a complete hash of it though, he showed no wingers instinct and has shown before that his passing is questionable. He should back his pace in acres of space against a static fullback.

Let’s put it this way, he’s our best winger, so by comparison do Bevan French, Tommy Makinson, Matty Ashton, Ryan Hall, score form there? I use those examples as they are the best wingers at their clubs.

It’s certainly not suiting him or playing to his natural strengths. He’s a good winger, and there was a big fanfare about Olpherts as a centre (I know that’s a reaction to him being a poor winger) so why not play them in their “preferred” positions?

Handley should only play on the wing. Period.

Bevan French is the only one who definitely scores from that list. Hall and Makinson def don’t by themselves, as not quick enough…..

I'd hope it's be more than that. Hull brought 1500 to Headingley this week.

I would say Ashton is as quick if not quicker than French. I also think Makinson is quick enough to score that try. Ryan Hall not so much. Need to remember Handley was clocked as one of the fastest players in SL last year.

More generally a couple of longer range breaks we couldn’t finish. Close to the Hull line we never looked like scoring. We could still be playing now and we wouldn’t have score any kind of attacking shape try from inside the 20. The lack of direction and quality is shown by the run and turn over plays from Leeming and the late kicks from Austin and Sezer. Awful short range kicking game, lack of structured attacking plays. Either we crash over or we do something off the cuff and hope it might come off.