his replacement is a world class young winger 20 miles away at wakefield. sadly, and this is where I have sympathy with brian, GH prefers to shop at aldi rather than waitrose. expect a cheap signing

This is absolutely spot on. The players inside Briscoe are offering no help at all and think when a kick is in the air think it's time for a breather. Yes ultimately it's Briscoe's responsibility to catch the ball but do we ever put kickers under pressure? Do we ever protect the catcher so he gets a clean catch at it? Week in and week out this is happening and costing us points and nothing is ever done.

Briscoe will rightly take stick for his performance and his lack of confidence means he has to be left out for a while now but other players have to do their jobs too.

Fair play to Hull for being relentless in executing a plan we all knew was coming by the way. Think that's called coaching.

firstly yes it has happened all year and secondly you are wrong. one person didn't see it coming. our brian

Is it not a simple case of 'karma' coming home to roost.....the 'judas' syndrome in all it's glory.

he served hull well for years. he didn't leave under a cloud either

firstly it was talanoa he beat in the footrace not fonua, he played well for us and imo no problem going to his hometown team, looks short of confidence and cert didn't get no protection from his teammates yest, if its true about his shoulder then that's pretty bad, hope it isn't and he gets his confidence back, always liked tom, apart from when he plays us of course, Plus them 5 tries well you gotta love him,

I am sure that was not the full instructions to Briscoe. I do not think he was told not to tackle either!

Was this player in the team against Hull yesterday?

No it is what is called players sticking to the game plan.

In the first 30 minutes we stuck to our game plan and ran at Kelly and kicked to the dangerous winger and it worked. Once Hull started to dominate our pack we fell away from the game plan as we lacked field position.

Too easy to blame the coach when the players fail to perform.

Yes, and I do not know if he was told to not tackle, so not sure what you are saying there. But in response to me saying why the hell did he not jump, the response was he was told not to at half time and just go for the player attacking.

and you are always to quick to absolve the coach of any blame.
he could, and should, then have made adjustments as things unfolded. but he didn't.

So what's supposed to happen when that "gameplan" goes awry are there not meant to other "options or alternative plans"?