Surely we have triggered the recall option with Williams out for a month? You’d think.

For Dean, it must be so frustrating. Recalled twice from Featherstone where he was wanted, and playing well. I think we picked him once, from memory (Leigh) across the two times he was recalled. Then sent back out on loan when there’s a realistic chance of playing with Drinkwater out. If we’ve recalled him again, he’ll probably have one, maybe two games before Williams is back owing to the two week clause.

Strange decision making throughout

No more excuses, the well is dry.

The bad apples are gone
This is his team, his signings
He's had a full pre-season with his own squad
We have no relegation concerns

This SL is probably the weakest its ever been (quite a statement). All the usual suspects (Saints, Wigan, Catalans, Leeds) look inconsistent and the likes of Huddersfield are vying with us for comedy value.

The most damning aspect of last night was there was no reaction - in fact we started where we left off.

Powell has aleady stated he likes to keep a consistent 17, and by that he seems to mean he won't change unleas he has to, due to suspension or injury.

The first 7 games are a smokescreen. We're back to 2022 level, but with a bigger (but at times ineffective) pack and less excuses.

no other team would win without their starting 6 and 7, came back well, Powell has always been a cock, your squad with troops back will be there or there about for the title don't worry about that

I think i would even be tempted to try Thewlis & Dufty in the halves if Dean is unavailable & put Ratch at fullback where he has done us proud in the past.
I think Thewlis could be a playmaker in the making.

Im coming round to this view. 2 full pre-seasons, lots of signings, season and a half in and we have played well for, what, 7 games in total out of 42?

We played well last night and Huddersfield were poor.
It helps when we put our players in their best positions.
Myler to FB and Handley to wing springs to mind.
We already have a weak pack with Holroyd, Tetavano and Gannon missing and both Sangare and Smith were taken off with leg injuries not to return.
So that`s potentially 5 of the starting pack missing.

It doesn’t matter because if you believe some of the comments made a fair few of our team don’t want to play for Powell and some just can’t anyway so it will level out with who ever you got missing.

Yeh good point mate, forgot about that.
Like I`ve said on here before Smith lost the dressing room 2 weeks ago but must have got it back on Friday as they all wanted to play for him

Quote: karetaker "All this losing the dressing room thing makes me laugh, seems to be a modern thing in team sport these days. Couldn’t imagine the likes of Clough or Ferguson putting up with this nonsense. Then again without a big pool of talent in rugby league I guess players have the power now.'" Could you imagine what Alex Murphy would have said to the players after Castleford? Something like 2:45 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxpwZX5X6kI

Quote: karetaker "All this losing the dressing room thing makes me laugh, seems to be a modern thing in team sport these days. Couldn’t imagine the likes of Clough or Ferguson putting up with this nonsense. Then again without a big pool of talent in rugby league I guess players have the power now.'" Could you imagine what Alex Murphy would have said to the players after Castleford? Something like 2:45 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxpwZX5X6kI

Just watched Penrith vs Newcastle Knights; Penrith missing both 1st choice halfbacks & you couldn't tell (and they won), so with a quality squad it can be done...

...just not by us