Weren't there some rumours of some discontent with Lui over the close season? Hoping it was just a bad day at the office. Felt like Dwyer's predictable unpredictability yesterday was really jarring with Gale's attempts to bring some cohesion and control to the end of the sets. Was surprised it took another 10 mins or so after half time for him to swap him out for Myler. I can see Myler doing a really solid job at hooker alongside Gale and Lui with Dwyer being thrown on for impact - at least until Leeming is available. Do we have an eta on him?

never rated dwyer. awful

Walker
Briscoe
Newman
Evans
Handley
McLelland
Gale
Oledzki
Myler
Prior
Martin
Ward
Smith

Dwyer
Holdroyd
Ava
Mellor

Need to make sure they kick on the 5th more lacked that yesterday, kept running it on the last. We've got two decent kickers, we need to start using them.

That would still be 14 starters.

Let's hope Lui regains some form because he does have a lot of qualities. I'm no fan of Dwyer but untill Leeming is fit we don't really have a choice unless Johnson is fit although I would rather bring Johnson into a winning team.

Lui is a very good player on his day. The pack is the big problem for us.

Think you’ll struggle in this one, Huddersfield are a class above you atm and will probably win easily

It’s actually a couple of things, the front row and the way we play.

We potentially have two good props, an aging one who might still have some good days but is mostly ineffective these days, and some young players who lack the experience to be leaders. On top of that we’ve got a seasoned pro who’s on his way back from a long injury spell out. In terms of hooker we have just signed someone who might be good for us, we have another who is full of energy and enthusiasm but lacks control, direction, decision making and delivery. Then we’ve got a kid who could be a great success if handled correctly.

In terms of the style of play, we don’t play to our (limited) strengths. We should be playing with a bit more depth due to our lack of pace, and should be running more lines to move defenders around just before moving the ball. We’ve got one centre playing out of position on the wing, and the other playing some kind of hybrid prop role as we don’t have enough go forward.

There’s still a lot of work to do with the squad and coaching team, we need to be patient.

That kid hasn’t been handled correctly. Might end up too late there.

Gone are the days when we could hold our ground with Wigan fans .Kick away we're easy right now :

Walker
Briscoe
Newman
Evans/Sutty (equally uninspiring)
Handley
Lui
Gale
Ava
Myler
Prior
Ward
Martin
Smith

Dwyer (as an impact man - distribution is horrific)
Cuthbo
Oledski
Mellor

Walker
Briscoe
Newman
Mellor
Handley
Lui
Gale
Oledski
Dwyer
Prior
Ward
Martin
Smith

Myler
Ava
Holroyd
Cuthbertson