Iliess Macani, Jordan Lilley, James Bentley, Josh Jordan-Roberts, Lee Smith, Daniel Murray & Mikolaj Oledzki played in home game but not this weekend.

Replaced by Johnny Campbell, Omari Caro, James Davies, Evan Hodgson, Matty Storton, Brandon Pickersgill & Brandan Wilkinson.

Also Mendeika playing fullback instead of centre, with Thomas in halves instead of fullback.

Mendeika is crap at fullback. He's not all that good at centre, but he makes less of a difference there.

Lilley is 50 times better at half back than Thomas.

The likes of Murray & Oledzki missing are one of the main problems. They were carrying our front row. When you replace them with kids like Hodgson, Wilkinson & Storton, it's a big difference.

Lee Smith's bench spot taken by debuting academy player Brandon Pickersgill.

The only real improvement in there is Macani being left out for Johnny Campbell. Otherwise, it's a fair difference in quality. 63 points difference? Maybe not. But you can't put a price on a good and preferably experienced pack, which we are BADLY missing.

Who played where in the team? I can't believe the way they are shown as lining up on the website or in the media, with Kirk at , Magrin as wing and Caro at scrum half. Also doesn't show Thomas in the 17, but the T&A reported he missed an easy conversion

Teamsheet had it as:

Mendeika
Campbell
Oakes
Ryan
Caro
Thomas
Pryce
Kirk
Moore
Magrin
Larroyer
Hodgson
Roche
SUBS
Storton
Wilkinson
Pickersgill
Davies

I assume Ryan & Oakes were the other way around as they usually are, but that's a common mistake made on teamsheets.

Surprised we lost so heavily since we played with 14 in the starting line up and 4 subs according to that

We've also managed to clone Jon Magrin somehow

Oops. My own fault for forgetting who the other prop was (after typing Magrin's name), so going to check!

Put myself through watching the highlights. Noticed Ethan Ryan didn't seem to be playing in the second half. Hope he's back for Sheffield

I can't bring myself to do it.

There were highlights?

Only one for the Bulls..well, two with the final whistle.

Ethan Ryan took a knock and went off late in the first half.

Let's hope Ethan's substitution was precautionary and not anything serious.

Should have an update for you at the media day tomorrow mate.

Cheers Mick.