I think you looked tired. You are the only team to play every weekend this year arent you?

Thats no excuse. The lack of injuries at Warrington meant every player could be rotated. A lot of the main players were rested for the Quins game post Wembley if I remember rightly.

You cant rotate and rest players at the business end of the year. Also didnt Harrison pull up in the warmup? That could have disrupted things.

How dare you suggest that. Don't you know that clarke is one of the finest members of our squad? The reason he is on instead of myler is because he is much better in defence. For evidence of this just watch the first two tries conceded on saturday.

this ^


it was fine for a one or two off in the cup, but doing this has completely changed the way we've played for most of this year, there were a couple of moments in the second half where half breaks were made and players were looking round for support, thats where myler would have been shooting through, and scaring the bejesus out of the defence, even if he didn't get the ball.

So you blame it on Tony Smith? He made a mistake that cost you a shot at OT?

monaghan at half back is a stupid idea. clarke has been good on his return and deserves a plce but is not in the same league as monas at hooker. we need myler to partner briers as he offers more in attack. if he saying he not playing myler as he will be targeted , then every team are going to target him and there's no point in spending that monay or having him on the cap. monas at hooker myler partnering briers let clarke and higham fight it out for place on the bench.

not entirely, we do look knackered, i don't agree with any of this swagger crap you've come out with about us turning up last week,

but if you look at how we've played this year, there's been some constants.

Monas being a threat at DH, which has been aided a lot by myler continually pushing through, being on the shoulder, (usually getting knocked on his off the ball but not getting a penalty for it) that causes confusion in the defence, people don't get back quick enough into position there's delay in markers getting set and its from that monas does his best work, not scooting and pinching cheap yards but getting up and then running at the line, we've not seen of his scything show and goes for ages now.

a la the semi final last year.

I agree, we completely went away from how we had been playing for the first 3/4 of the season or so and served us very well to accomodate Clarke.

We lost all the creative imput that Monaghan was having in the earlier rounds of the league and cup by putting him at half back. As has been stated, Clarke was playing well but no where well enough to oust Monaghan from his best position. I would say play that game again with Myler starting and just having Clarke or Higham on the bench things would have been different.

Another thing that popped into my head.....did we really miss Harrison that much?

Vinnie was pretty diabolical in the first 20 especially where Harrison would have been steady and reliable in defence.

I'm not sure why we didn't play Clarke at 7 if Smith didn't want to expose Myler. Monaghan should never play anywhere other than 9.

We were not tired just outplayed by Huddersfield in the first half and lacked ideas. When we were on the comeback we did not look tired then did we?

how did you think clarke played on saturday?

Ahem.

Last weekend was our first missed and our season started earlier than most.

Only 1 week earlier

Not wonderfully.