luke sutcliffe to partner callum smith in the 2nd row

Erm sorry but the guy has stolen a wage, a big one at that, for 4 years with us. I for one defended him early on and thought he would get back to something like his England form but he has been mostly a liability.

I think the thing with Ferres is that he just doesn’t seem that bothered. When he makes a mistake or gives away a penalty he doesn’t bust a gut to make up for it. When you factor in what he’s likely to be paid, the whole thing represents very poor value for money.

The thing with ferres is he has never been the player for us he was at Hudds. We have never got to see the player we thought we were getting.

He is obviously doing something the coaches like but I don't know what it is.

Regardless he will play. It's as sure as death and taxes.

Think ferres is starting to perform really well in defence (stats would be interesting) which is key.. but still not the player he was in attack.

I would be very shocked if so, he has been turd for 2 years now (really not sour grapes), let's be fair father time has caught up with him, and to fight a disease like sepsis takes its toll on the strongest of anyone.
Was really surprised at the swap, as Lunt hasn't played much competitive rugby and when he did he looked like an old man, a shadow of himself, he was fantastic for us before he fell ill.

Wish the kid all the best, he is an honest kid who tries his best for his team

Singleton one match suspension. Straight swap for Peteru IMO

Or Oledzki?

What for? The fractionaly late hit that wasn't even a penalty?

Parcell went to get him off the overseas quota. Lunt can't really be viewed as being of the same standard.

If we can get him fit though, he'll be solid in defense and create the odd clean break. I'm glad to have him. If he can get some games under his belt, I think he'll earn a 1yr contract for next season.

My thought was that curly watts was faking the need for a head test in order to get the extra interchange. Surely there was nowt in it?

Defence should be a given for any SL forward

32 tackles with 2 misses. Ava - 35 with 1 miss, Dwyer most with 38 and 2 misses. All pretty much similar tbh.
The pens he gave away was ridiculous, not on his part, the referees now seem just to give a pen cos its Fez,he did nothing worse than anyone else in the match. 2 pens conceded, Myler most with 3, Martin and Ava also with 2.

Be interesting to see how the front rows compare now we're finally starting to play with some intent. I'm certain that Garbutt, Parcell and Mulhern will have a proper dig - hopefully our lads give a good account.

It'll be interesting to see if Danny Mags is continuing with the terrible habit he's picked up for moaning at the ref.

Funny how I never noticed him doing that when he wore Leeds colours........