It's ok to blame Widdop and Austin, but no half back looks good behind an ineffective pack. I don't care who they are. The close call at Wigan and the nilling of Saints showed that we had a team who can play and show passion and commitment. Where has that disappeared to in recent weeks? Seems to me that there is unrest and disharmony among the team since the opening matches? Odd that the downward spiral began when Ashton was replaced by Widdop. Am I on the right track here?

An ongoing problem with the Wire is that too many teams make more ground than us on their sets of six so we get the ball back in the wrong part of the field.
On Friday our attack consisted of nothing more than lateral passing movements with no one having the drive to take a chance on breaking the defensive line.

And spot on again.

I been saying it for a couple of seasons now.

And as well as that, there is a lot of cap tied up there on long term contracts, which just isn’t giving value for money, and wants better using.

Hill and Cooper need moving on, Clark needs a dose of Widnes.

Our defence doesn't move up quickly enough and this allows opposition to make up many easy yards over the course of the match. It also means that players like Hurrell are hitting our line at speed.

Johnson is very Wainwright like, maybe a move to second row could be great for him?
And yeah our bench isn't great at all, better now that Philbin is on the bench but not a great bench week in week out. I'd much rather have Sita than Burrell on the bench. Burrell plays what about 20 mins a game from what i see of him, so i'd rather have Sita skittling players for 20 mins than Burrell ambling about. I pray to God Latu will be the forward we've been crying out for the past 5 -6 years but i REALLY don't think he's gonna do much for us at all.