What I witnessed last night was an absolute shambles and I am so glad somebody has highlighted the fact that our biggest problem is NB comstantly changing the team before and during games. There is no more excuses of 'key players' being out injured or NB still settling in, it is clearly evident our biggest problem is we never have no fluidity in our play (attack more than defence) due to his constant tinkering. As far as I'm concerned its now damage limitation with our season, so what I'd like to see is our promising youngsters get a solid run in the team to at least give them good experience for next season and beyond. We have ageing players who under perform each week, and players on loan who are blocking the younger lads progression. At the end of the day it can't get any worse than this season has been so far and although they might occasionally struggle we at least know they want to play for the club and will give their all. If I had the power this is roughly what I'd go with now till the end of the season depending on injuries etc.....
Lomax
Swift
Turner
Percival
Makinson

Wheeler/Hohaia
Yates/Charnock

Puletua
Roby
Walmsley
Sia
Manu
Wilkin

Bench:
Hohaia (if Wheeler was fit)
Greenwood
Thompson
Jones/Walker

I would love to see what other people make of this team and how they think they would actually go!

I wouldn't have thrown Wheeler in against Wigan anyway. With their style of tackling in derby games, he'd have been lucky to last 10 minutes.

Doesn't look like he did.

Hemel smashed them and Wheeler wasn't mentioned in the match reports.

Carl Foster was playing as well.

Danny Yates will be a year older by next season and so will have had a little extra time to physically mature.
It may be that he and Charnock are seen as adequate back up for the fist choice half partnership of Walsh and, errrrr, Wheeler?

O'Brien tweeted something about a scan today. Not in relation to Wheeler though.

Let's hope we don't find ourselves without any halves at all for the Wigan match.

Played really well at the weekend though. Directed the side well along with Wilkin, and the defensive side of his game impressed me. He's not the biggest, but his technique is perfect.