Sinfield should be defending closer to the middle as out wide it exposes his lack of pace more, this is part of the issue when playing him at 6. We should be playing McGuire at 6, Burrow at 7 and Sinfield at 13, when they are all fit.

Watkins is making 20+ tackles a match defending as a second row because our entire defensive line is unbalanced by how we use our hooker.

It's been mentioned here before that if we were an NRL side there would be reams of playbook training sets designed specifically to manipulate the ball to Watkins fresh and in half a yard of space, rather than overworking him in defence and tossing him the ball at random two or three times a match.

That's very true but luckily for our right side defence Burrow defends on the left, which yesterday was unlucky for Keinhorst as he was called on to make or at least attempt to make 40+ tackles.

That's not correct should Catalans beat Wigan...in that scenario (and if we made it past Wakefield) we would go to the loser of Warrington v St Helens

Either way not confident.
TBH I am not looking past Wakey. In a good run of form, we are not and they are capable of beating us on the day.

Yes, but part of BOTH centres' increased workload is down to the absence of the extra defender in the middle squeezing them both in, rather than just which of them the hooker stands outside.

I don't think we're at odds here. Over-loading the inexperienced Keinhorst/Burrow combination was a no brainer as it would also lesson the threat posed by Burrow out of acting half once Hood had played his debut starting cameo.

How desperate must the CEO have been to secure a starting hooker when he knew he'd be unavailable in potentially key matches down the line. An admission of 'oops I've f[i**ke[/id up here' in releasing Diskin then Buderus without confidence in the line of succession... perhaps.