None of those players has either the distribution skills, the organisation or the kicking game of either Briggs or Herbert.

Fscking pathetic of me to think it might be an issue when playing the best team in the competition. With you there.

I am angry that they are both out, but i dont go along say oh we will loose know oh wigan will walk over us...

Starting 13? Fooking awsome!!

COME ON YOU BULLS!

What's wrong with Briggs?

I said on another thread that the way Potter spoke about Briggs and Herbert at the fans forum suggested to me that all was not well and they wouldn't play this week.

Surprised he (Briggs) is out for a month though.

Looks like Terrace Singer is reverting back to his old ways that have seen him banned from these forums previously.

Hopefully it's just first home game nerves and not the fact he had 2 pints at lunchtime that's made him revert back

PCL damage - post cruciate ligament I think.

Probably just as worrying Marc Herbert's had a "hamstring strain" for nigh on three weeks now and can't play.. It's probably just the sceptic mood I'm in, but there could be more to that than meets the eye.

If he did have 2 pints, I'd like to know which pub served him and report them.

I only had 1

We have NO half backs in the squad. We have guys who can cover half back, but no one who can call that position theirs. Remember last season? We played half of it with no half backs, what happened there? Was it an unbeaten run? No, it was the worst losing streak the club has had in SL, possibly since the club went out of business and came back.

So, your blind, naive get behind the lads mentality might work for you, but the rest of us who live in the real world are able to accept that what was a hard game is now a virtual impossibility.

Jeez. I don't remember him going off in Cardiff. I take it he did it in training?

Took a bang on the knee in the game apparently.

says he picked it up at cardiff. presumbaly it was something he could play on with and didnt really flare up til afterwards.

The posterior cruciate ligament consists of two main bundles of fibres that act primarily to prevent posterior translation of the tibia on the femur.

There's a chance that it didn't seem so bad after the game but has since been aggravated in training hence the change in prognosis.

I can see Sykes in the middle on Sunday.