Can anyone explain why Kirke gets selected
Somebody must see something in him.

If you thought McGuire was putting in effort last night Gareth, we must have been watching different games.

I can understand Bywater's impassioned defence, but I wouldn't have expected it from you.

Oh and David, I'm not getting paid a substantial sum of money to stand in front of 16 stone blokes and be run at. He is. HTH.

No you are not but that doesn't make it OK for you to make comments that are inaccurate?

You are not on the field nor were you privy to what McDermott tactics were? If you knew you were having a bad night what would you do? Most likely you would limit your involvement to a minimum and reduce your impact into the game. That is what professionals do its part of being a member of a team.

You only look at games on a very superficial level, the nuances of the game go straight over your head. I accept he had a terrible game but he was not alone and that includes your sacred cow.

Fair enough. I only watched it the once (and won't be watching again) but I genuinely didn't see a lack of effort or any shirking. I saw some some spectacularly awful attempts at defending which were bad even for Danny's never great defensive abilities. He didn't do much with the ball but, then again, neither did Sinfield. Neither could any half have done much behind such a beaten pack (though I accept Sutcliffe showed some flashes individually).

Guess we will have to agree to disagree.

Sutcliffe took over at stand off (in a team that was already beaten) & showed some promise...............lets face it Danny is a spent force (both in attack & defence). We need to give Sutcliffe an extended run at No. 6 to give him chance to prove that he is good enough (rather than in & out of the team like he has been for too long).
As soon as Robbie Burrows is back, he should be an automatic choice at scrum half & get Sir Kevin back into the pack (where he should be) !

You just lost all credibility with your misnomer of beep beep

I thought he lost it when on a previous thread he asks for more grunt from the forwards then goes and says Sinfield should move back to the pack.

I watched the first half and then called it quits. Thats the first time in over 45 years which tells you everything you need to know about that game imho.

Possibly incorrect, but I wouldn't be surprised if a number of players - McGuire included - are more focused on the Cup game than many would credit. They've never won it. Its not unhear of for a player to realise it isn't going to be their day and back off with a view to saving themselves for the next week. A very silly thing to do IMO - playing half-heartedly tends to attract exactly the sort of injuries players are trying to avoid - but we've all seen it.