I suspect there is a lot of truth in this. A running game is largely, I believe, a gift you are born with, and relies on your physical attributes. You can work on it and refine it, but you can't teach it.

A passing game is something altogether more technical, so it makes sense to make sure the lad is working hard on it in the relatively early days of his senior career. He looks a great talent, and more than that he looks very capable of converting junior talent into senior grade quality (which is no given) so it's important for him and the club long term that we don't just sit back and go "wow, look at this great young player we made" and stop developing the core skills.

Spot on.

Back in the squad now, "to cover injuries".

Well we will surely see him playing somewhere this week either at Leeds / Hunslet, as Mac has already stated how 'vital' it is for him to be playing.

Cone carrier/water boy - that'll at least keep him off his backside

So he's been promoted to replace James Lowes as Assistant Coach?

He will have some "innovative" tactics in mind for him that may or may not necessarily involve playing him and, even if it does may or may not guarantee no more than 3 mins game time.

If McShane is going to play acting half, he needs to actually get to acting half. I noticed there were a lot of cases even when he did get there, he was late, but there were a lot of plays he wasn't there.

I wonder if he will be in trouble again then for scoring two tries

Was the introduction of McShane at that time a tactical move or a forced move because of an injury?

Maybe mcd has a secret signal for when to turn it on/off and uses it on Sutcliffe as well

I'm not convinced there are any tactics, things happen as an after thought or are forced through injury, I have no idea what any of the pivots were trying to do last night!!

Burrow just can't play with any control, he's headless and a real momentum killer!

PS After played the game for about 20 years how can he not hit a runner, int baffling!!

I thought he came on following Foster's injury?

Few times this season we've kept a couple of subs on the bench for the full first 40, presumably to introduce some fresh legs early in the second half.

Injuries to Delaney, Foster and Kirke will have made it difficult to rotate players in the second half, so having two players with zero minutes in their legs in McShane and Moore worked out quite well.

He came on for Delaney, though Foster got injured on pretty much the next play. Either way, we can't know whether he'd have got on at all without those knocks.