Speaking of that, what's the chances of Smith and Donald starting and having Delaney on the bench. He's a big unit and wouldnt do badly defending more centrally. Would also give options of playing him in the pack or in the backs if we needed it......

People on here make me laugh, what did you expect with Delaney?

He isn't any better than what Leeds already had.

Made to look even worse by the awful form of JJB who seems to be doing all the things wrong that he used to do right these days. How many times were Senior and Hall completely isolated from the rest of the team? It was almost like watching England in the WC.

I agree, JJB for me was the Bulls MOM, but I still think Senior looks way off the pace now, and Hall's making last year look like one season wonder.

Can't believe when Smith signed there were actually some silly postings of where would we fit him in when everyone is fit. Christ he is far better than any of our current backline.

hall got little quality ball, he can't do much without it

Nah, clearly that is Halls view a well, he seems to miss the tackling part of the game altogether.

He also dropped the ball on a kick return which i think led to a try that set, he was caught out of position defensively a couple of times.....

Maybe its just a confidence thing at the moment. Got to agree though, Senior isnt playing well at the moment.

It's the defence that was the problem Tad, it was shocking.

As for the ball, he still offered very little threat when he did get it. Unless we include threats against Leeds, considering is pathetic dropped ball resulting in the Bulls try.

fair points, but i would have to ask, who didn't drop a ball last night? seems most of them did

Only if you share out JJB's total.

JJB seems to be consistently dropping the ball every match, for me now there's a couple back I'd leave him out of the Catalans match, playing him every week isn't fixing the problem, hopefully missing a match will refocus him to bring back the form of two years ago.

As for Delaney hopefully the defence was a one off. I really like him in attack though, he seems to draw players in very well and Donald and Smith should score lots from him. I've recently had the bug going round at the moment and that totally knocked my fitness maybe this was the case for Delaney's defence.

Wingers don't ever get a lot of quality ball in any team. They do get chances to finish and Hall fluffed two fairly easy ones by his standards. First half he did pretty well to brake a tackle then instead of running straight over the top of Dave Halley who was flat footed on the try line he swerved inside into defenders. Second half he had the line open again but was caught by what looked like his sock. A guy his size and power (and on last years evidence) should be putting those to bed. As for his defence, well, getting caught infield can be a result of numbers being uneven (understandable in some cases), but chargeing up and missing tackles is all his own work.

He's a quality player and on his day the best winger in the comp.