Slater is hardly the Hulk!!!!! but a brilliant FB. Size only matters in the bed, dont believe what you read!

There's a famous little song that sums Ryan Atkins up completely"I could wile away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain"[/i

McNamara must have been ripped on acid when he scrawled his name on the teamsheet.

Made me lauch anyway

I have seen this cr*p written about cudjoe by a few people. Do they know nothing about defending in RL?

Cudjoe was not hesitant defending this play. Quite the contrary. He showed good line speed and moved up quickly on Tonga. He made the mistake of trusting that his inside defender would move up as quickly and close down Lewis. Sadly the inside defender was appallingly slow and did not even attempt a meaningful tackle leaving a gap. from that point on he is left wondering whether his inside defender will do his job. (Later Cudjoe shoud have contested the loose ball more aggressively)

Correct on both counts.

Agreed it was O'loughlins fault and hes normally rock solid defensively.

Too true.

Some people think Tom Briscoe can do no wrong when for the 2nd week running he did sweet FA. How people can give him a better rating than Goulding is beyond me. Briscoe made 3 runs the entire game ffs and was at fault for tries. 3 runs for a wingers is shocking.

Goulding did nothing wrong, bar 1 knock on when the ball was actually stripped, and wasnt at fault for any tries. Goulding won 2 penalties with clever dummy half runs, one of which led to a try, made more than twice as many runs as Briscoe and more than twice as many metres whilst also making more tackles. Indeed Goulding made more metres than any other back. This is despite being injured for most of the second half. Goulding was also much better than Briscoe last week.

It was his fault up to a point - does not help when he is played out of position!

Goulding and Atkins should'nt get anywhere near a International set up again. Cudjoe might be lucky to get called up.

Ben Harrison looked fat and slow tonight, maybe carrying a injury ?

We losed the game with our kicking game once again, if only we had Sinfield and Eastmond fit.

Famous-Do you see everything through cherry and white hoops?

Cite/criticise individuals all you want. The simple fact of the matter is individually, and collectively we aren't good enough for multiple reasons.

Not at all, I suppose the stats are lying though, after all its a Wigan player

He came out of the line and created the hole that Lewis ran into. They didn't go up in a line because of him. He was too quick and at fault. If he was over here, he'd have had a new arséhole ripped out of him for doing that by the coaching staff.

I'd love to see Westwood,Graham and Crabtree spend some time in the NRL. With decent coaching and a proper fitness regime they could be world class. The rest of them, not even close.

Putting the (serious) video mistakes to one side, the truth is that whilst we've been able to field a reasonably competitive forward pack for the last four years it has never been supported by the backs. They've been letting us down for ages with Ryan Atkins being the lowest ebb to date. Until we start producing proper attacking full-backs, big and speedy centres (with brains) and at least one half capable of scything through the defensive line we're done for.