Agreed. I do not get the hate for the Bradford pack. I thought they won the collision quite often and got lots of quick play the balls, much quicker than us for most of the game. We probably just had that little bit of extra quality around the park compared to Bradford.

When people talk about the gulf between FT and PT it is more the gulf between SL and Championship which is evident but take yesterdays game with no disrespect to Bradford but it were just about the worst of the worst full time players against a lot of the very best part time players. A win for the FT time is in no way or form a given.

No, we would all like to play you every week.

The only rebuttal I can put up against your opinion of our squad is that Addy, Clark are going to HKR and Olbison, Gaskell (current championship player of year) and Ferguson are going to Huddersfield. So 2 SL teams think those 5 players are (bottom 4) SL quality. It is probably telling that 4 of them are injured at the moment.

Blythe is a quandary. He was a good centre at Wire 4 or 5 years ago, and started off as a good centre for us, but we played him for half a season as a 2nd rower, discovered he was no good at 2nd row, then put him back at centre and found that the stint at 2nd row seemed to have broken him at centre...

2 of our 17 had only been in the squad for 5minutes. But again, all their recent game time has been in SL.

As has been said many times, half back is our problem. No direction, no rudder, no creativity. Effort goes unrewarded so then the effort starts to slide, which annoys the fans.

Our recent signings do seem to be longer term. Middle 8's are no longer in our direct control, if it happens, we'll have a go, but this looks increasingly like building for the future.

Should I be concerned about Smiths final quote in the T&A today?

Smith added: “They are all big games now and until I’m no longer here I will treat every game the same.”

Why did he need to add the "no longer here bit"?!?