If we think our season is solely dependant on Walsh playing, we might as well pack up now.

This is where our squad depth comes into its own.

Turner out but we still have Jones/percival/Lance/Wheeler who can play centre

Sia out but we still have Flash/Jones/Manu/Wilkin as backrowers

Walsh is out, we're buggered.

but Wheeler has previously starred as a play maker, plus Wilkin/Lance can fill in in the halves


Walsh is the big loss, but its not disasterous if our pack can continue to dominate

Lomax
Makinson
Percy
Wheeler
Swift
Lance
Wilkin
Walmsley
Roby
Amor
Manu
Jones
Lms

Wello
Laffranchi
Mose
Flanaghan


That's just a quick team off the top of my head and the is other options to look at but that team above is good enough to beat wakey and Leeds IMO.

Both Wheeler and Lance have partnered Walshy at half back and although they have only played a couple of games I would imagine some of Walshy's experience would have rubbed off on them.
I would perhaps leave Lance at 6, Wheeler is a bit more adaptable and would be better at 7 he plays better in the halves than at centre.
We,ve got Lance, Wheeler, Walsh and Charnock for the halves for me getting more games from Wheeler will be a bonus and produce more game wins.

Lance went down to in the 1st half remember

He was ok. Manu was limping for most of 2nd half and went off limping but returned. Same with big Alex but he came back on.

Walmsley having scan today

Whilst his utility value came in handy last night with him moving to second pivot, Brown resolve to continue to pick Wello is a serious issue now.

Who ever is playing in the halves will need the best platform possible and carrying an ineffective bench player is not an option.

I would imagine next week will be Wello and Wilkin in the halves as it was for the second 40 yesterday and Hohaia to the centres since we have no back up centres. Unless we have a surprise debut from an under 19s player.

If Percival is fit then he can partner Jones and there's Wheeler too who can play centre with Wilkin and Hohaia at 6 and 7. Wellens should be nowhere near those positions.

I reckon they'll get either wheeler or Percy fit to cover centre with Jones and shift Lance back to 6, but Wellens at 6 would at least let us ramp up the pack as best we can.

We have options in the centre.

We have wheeler, Percy, Dawson, jones.

We can't let wello near the halves. He's absolutely awful there. Back to the bench for me.