Says in MEN that Fitzy possibly dropped for Sunday & Wilshire brought in to f/back. Looking at Salfors stats, Fitzy is in the top 4 for more than half the stats, look at Jeremy Smiths, he is TOP in errors made & missed tackles, surely that warrants him being dropped before anyone else as in his position we cant afford someone with so many errors.
Remembering when he was last at f/back, some of the suicide passes Wilshire gave to Hodgy were unbeleivable, dont think he made many yards to clear the line. If we are desperate in the backs, why drop Fitzy , why not bring Wilshire back on wing or centre instead of having players out of position.
I would have put Fitzy in Smiths spot, he cant do any worse if putting Wilshire at f/back.

Totally agree shirley think its time to see stefan at stand off get him off that wing to his rightful posistion wigan wasted no time dropping their oversees stars in smith and amos roberts they should not be in the team just because they are NRL players as some punters on here have said in the past if they are not doing the business a stint in the reserves is calling

Id also give thornley another chance thought he played well against saints

It's difficult to compare statistics like that though becase they do different jobs and do a different amount of work. According to official stats Fitz has missed 9 tackles (don't know if that includes the 3 misses in Leuluai's try on Friday as seperate ones) and Smith mas missed 14 - but Fitz has only made 19 tackles to Smith's 108 - so Fitz is currenlty missing about 1 in every 3 tackles, to Smith's 1 in 9 - and they tend to be costlier when a fullback misses. Equally, you'd expect a half bak cto touch teh ball more than a fullback, so, again simply looking at handling errors alone could be misleading.

I'm not sticking up for, or slagging either player here - just saying stats are not definitive. I'd suggest that both players are currently out of form.

Hull Kingston Rovers and Salford City Reds have announced their 19-man squads for the engage Super League clash at Craven Park on Sunday.




Hull Kingston Rovers squad

Cockayne, Fox, Welham, Webster, Colbon, Cooke, Dobson, Fozzard, Fitzhenry, Lovegrove, Newton, Galea, Murrell, Gene, Fisher, Netherton, I'Anson, Aizue, Wheeldon.



Salford City Reds squad

Fitzpatrick, Myler, White, Jewitt, Turner, Smith, Wilshere, Cashmere, Alker, Stapleton, Sidlow, Parker, Swain, McGilvray, Littler, Leuluai, Paul, Adamson, Ratchford.

MY TEAM WOULD BE AS FOLLOWS

Smith
Littler
Jewitt
Leuluai

[18th man]

Sidlow.

Rested: Paul.

I'd like to see something along the lines of:

Wilshere

McGilvary
Littler
Turner
White

Ratchford
Myler

Cashmere
Alker
Stapleton
Parker
Adamson
Swain

Sidlow
Leuluai
Jewitt
Fitzpatrick

Smith and Paul to miss out

Is Mark Henry Injured or just dropped?

As Iain says it is difficult to compare, personally I think both have made too many basic errors.

Fitzy keeps letting the ball bounce, he needs to adjust his game to the injury, I think he underestimates just how much pace he has lost.

Said before that Smith is like a small dog always 3 or 4th into the tackle.

Let Stef have a go with Myler, even if we lose by 50 he will be getting experience.

its says on the reds site he's injured again!

First off can anyone advise what is wrong with Henry ?? Cant believe that we have had to play him out of position all year cos of injuries for him to now be injured when we get some wingers on the park !!!!!
As for the team this will, arguably be the strongest we have had this year so no excuses, unless White & wilshire pull up lame in the first 5 mins !
FB - Fitz.
W- McGilvray & White
C - Littler & Wilshire
HB Myler & Smith
FR - Cash Alker Stapleton
SR - Adamson Parker
LF - Swain

Bench Lulu, Sidlow, Ratchford, Paul

As for tactics etc it seems from what I see at matches and on here that we need to give our fr row a bit more time on the pitch and stop making so many subs at one time which disrupts play.
Either way with people on the pitch who can finish I am more hopeful for Sunday. Whilst not criticiseing any players I would say we could have had several more tries had White started the season.
Here`s forever optimistic, hopefully reality won`t spoil it too much this weekend

I would go with:

1 Fitzpatrick
2 White
3 Wilshere
4 Littler
5 McGilvary
6 Ratchford
7 Myler
8 Cashmere
9 Turner
10 Stapleton
11 Adamson
12 Swain
13 Alker

14 Paul
15 Parker
16 Leuluai
17 Sidlow

Smith and Jewitt to miss out.

I think Henry is still jet lagged according to Simms article in the MEN

just to let you know the joker mcrae has dropped stefan back to the 21 s so i will now only be going to home games because i have payed for my season ticket wont travel away whilst this joker is in charge somebody give me a reason why ratchford deserves to be dropped instead of that clown smith

if that is true it is a f.....g disgrace