It will be interesting to find out today why Potter didn't select Addy today. Obviously it would have made little difference to the final outcome but it did seem a strange decision to bring Olbison in to the side.
I thought Olbison showed up well but I think Addy would have given up some more options in attack and another kicker.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that a quality player becomes available in mid season from the NRL. I think a top quality, genuine 13 would make a huge difference to our squad.

Rubbish. The table doesn't lie.

I said similar a few weeks back and got laughed at but what do I know.........


agree about addy, very strange decison to leave him out imo. hopefully potter will now realise what the rest of us already knew, Sykes cant do a job at SO unless he has a very good Scrum half alongside him, which no disrespect kearney isnt. lost count of number of times a useful looking movement ended at sykes with an overlap outside him.

hopefully Herbert will be fit next week and we can kick on.

I remember quite a few saying we didn't need an 'Anasta' type of player around the time we signed Briggs.

I've been longing for what I call a proper loose forward for some years now! I think it would take some of the pressure off the likes of Briggs and we'd be a lot less vulnerable when injuries strike like this week.

Southernwood should have played today.

agreed ( and its not often i agree with you red )

It would have had zero impact on the result. I suspect he would have been targeted in the line by the Wigan forwards.

Potter obviously doesn't think he is big enough to cope with SL yet.

Would have been better than playing 2 people out of position.

Team i'd like to see next week,
Kearney, ainscough, Platt, Walker, Raynor, Ah Van, Herbert, Lynch, L'estrange, Hargreaves, Whitehead, Elima, Addy.
Reps. Royston, Kopczak, Diskin, Olbison.
Just like to see Players playing in their recognised positions.

No Scruton.

Sorry, Scruton in for Olbison.
How did i miss him !

Not if we're exposing a player to a level he isn't ready for. I hope Southernwood gets some games this year but I don't think it would of been right to throw him in today to be targeted. Potter isn't afraid to give a young guy a chance if he has shown he is ready.

Enjoyed the visit to Odsal today, obviously the result helped.

From reading the posts on this thread, it's obvious you're all bemoaning the lack of half backs. Are Briggs and Herbert your first choice when fit? Don't know anything about Herbert (is he a top rated Aussie?) and wasn't Briggs a last minute signing as a squad player?

Yeh, Herbert is our new halfback and Briggs looks likely to be our 1st choice 6. I suspect we were hoping to bring in Pryce but failed so we moved for Briggs. He hasn't looked out of his depth so far but I still think we could do with some extra creativity.

Glad you enjoyed your visit, I enjoyed watching your side today. I can cope with being on the losing side when we have been clearly outplayed. You have have a squad that will be at the top for quite a few years if you can keep your key players at the club.

Tomkins is a little but I think every side in SL would love him in their side.

Today's game was a lot about the bulls having no halfbacks compared to how good Wigan are. Pretty much any defence could have lasted long periods against our predictable attack and a lot did last year.

I was disappointed that just when optimism is buzzing around odsal we see a scoreline like that. Still think the first no try being give. Would have led to a lot closer defeat.

It's pretty bad that our 3rd gAmE is seen as a must win. Nothing is won now.

Oh yeah, please no more Sykes. And I didnt think much of Royston.