I agree BM gets too much stick, but at the same time he brings some criticism on himself. The non-use of subs is farcial, as is not properly spelling players during games. The game is genuinely a 17 man game, and has been for over a decade. Regularly picking subs and either not using them or giving them 5 minutes is poor coaching, no matter how you dress it up.

I see Powell is going to rest some of his first team players against Saints on Sunday as they will be playing 3 games in 10 days.
Whilst other teams are playing 3 games in 8 days.
Maybe when the international was being played al teams should have just carried on playing their normal fixtures like they do in the NRL.
In Leeds case the loss of Watkins and Hall should be nothing instead of flogging 10/12 per team for three games in a short period of time.

In fairness Powell can rest players. Cas lose and it is no real hardship. We can't afford another loss against Leigh and really can't afford a loss a against Wakefield either. Rest them against fev

Powelll has been rotating his team throughout the season, that's why he is where he is, and why he can afford to lose if it happens.

Yet before the England game he'd only used 21 players compared to 26 for Leeds and most others, Wigan even more. They're playing well no doubt but their lack of injuries compared to others has helped them in both results and.resting a player here and there.

spot on. they will get injuries at some point, also a blip. be interesting to see what happens then

You'd think so although neither is a nailed-on cert. Occasionally some teams just get lucky with injuries.

True, I mean Hull had a good run with lack of injuries last year and obviously benefitted. If Wigan and Cas swapped injury lists then the former would probably be top now and the latter losing ground on the top 4.

To be fair, Cas have had their fair share of injuries the last couple of years.