first 25mins we were same old what weve seen last 5 games. second half i thought we were a pretty good solid outfit just a few idiotic penaltys. love him or hate him i thought wellens was brilliant tonight his bravery in certain situations is unquestionable if leeds has wellens at fb tonight instead of hardaker we wouldnt have won imo.

No it's not. It's about the club being sentimental and not caring about being competitive. Wellens will play every game, regardless of performance. His performances at loose forward were absolutely painful, he was tragic. Watching him pretend he can play in the halves was even worse.

So now we're saying Lomax should come back in at 6 till the end of the season. Fine, but it shouldn't be Wellens playing fullback even if we did that.

And Lomax to 6 is a horrible suggestion. He was playing in the halves when he was so poor that people on here were writing his career off. He had absolutely no confidence and was playing horribly. Yet we want to throw him back into that situation without an experienced halfback with him? Utter madness.

1 Lomax
6 Hohaia
7 Wilkin

Is the best we've got. Wello, god love him, shouldn't be in the 17 at all when everyone is back.

Another point is Lomax's development, which surely has to be a much higher priority than trying to save this season. We've already wasted 3 or 4 seasons of potential development time for Wello's successor, so why waste another for such little reward?

Wellens was good on monday, but it was more about the man he is than just the player. We needed someone to put their balls on the table and he did it. This will have been made easier for him by him being in his old familiar role.

However, Lomax was a revalation at fullback, both in attack and defence. 7 tries in 4 games. From all reports, we'd have been in a fight in both of those hattrick games (certainly the wakefield one) if he hadn't have been the (significant) difference between the sides. Do you remember the Wire game when, not only was he key in attack, but he was making the try saving tackles - remember him scooping that ball up in the in goal area and spinning onto his back so the ball wasn't grounded for a drop out?

Lomax is spectacular. He should be our full back. If Wellens is not filling in for him, he should be on the side line, watching Lomax in order to coach him in the position better. He's much more use to our team there than keeping a Joe Greenwood/Luke Thompson/Andre Savelio out of the back row or keeping a Dougie Charnock/Adam Swift/Danny Yates out of the halves.

Josh Perry would have probably done that for a pint or two.

I am glad Wello went back to full back on Monday. Once Lomax is back you would think he will be back at full back but while he is out there is little point in not putting Wello there. It was good to give Makinson some game time so he can cover if needed but you would hope in the big games we would have everyone playing in their best positions.

As for stand off it does show how little we all think of Hohaia. Lomax could cover at 6 with Ashe or Wellens at full back but this would not allow Jonny to be as dangerous and make is very static at the back. I would like us give Charnock a run at stand-off, if he isn't up to the mark we can always try to sign someone in the off season.