Nutley was very decent - certainly the equal of any prop we have right now.

Nikau, though past his best with us, was still better than Jason Clark. And any second rower in our last 40 years could offer more than Ben Currie does since his injury.

Throw in that BMM isn't capable of putting in an 80 minute display and you have to start to wonder if talk of us having a top level pack is actually true - Daryl Clark is head and shoulders above everybody else in the side, never mind the pack.

Our half backs might indeed need to be behind a strong pack, but sometimes it is upto them to take a grip themselves - too many of our team seem to lack confidence to actually lead... flat track bullies sadly springs to mind. All fine if things fall into place, but first sign of adversity and they shrivel off into their shells and look to find excuses.

Sadly, I think this all stems from the man laying the plans and he needs to be seriously looked at with regards to his position at the club.

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.