Possibly.

How about losing 0-19 at home to Hull KR in the playoffs 9 months ago? Coming hot on the heels of 2 prior exits at home in 2019 and 2020? Surely you could not have been fine then?

Finer with it than getting bullied by Wakefield 3 times in a season. All those teams we crashed out the playoffs to in the last 3 years.... have all still turned us over this year, but i guess thats okay as at least they won't be able to do it in the play offs cause we won't be there!

I keep reading people saying "the season is over".... you sure about that? And I'm not talking about making the 6!

The next 2 matches are the opportunity put this to bed. Need one win. 2 would be nice.

Did Riley Dean go off with a head injury? I'm pretty sure that he did and didn't return. If he's failed then he won't be available to face Hull KR on Friday, in which case...........

Ratchford or Mata'utia at Stand Off? Discuss.

Correct, unavailable for Friday's match.

Jesus……what a choice.

Put matautia there..he seems to play ok there.well better there than centre

Powell will have until the first 6-7 games of 2023 before any real decisions are likely to be made, until then its a case of suck it up and hope he turns it around. And of course he will probably know this better than most - which is why he is making all these changes as quickly as possible. So whilst its painful to watch perhaps the only crumb of comfort is to hope that the displays we are seeing are down to a new squad needing to gel plus a chronic loss in confidence from all the defeats.

I'd rather we kept players in position as much as possible, so would look at

Thewlis
Wrench
Mata'utia
Wardle
Ashton
Ratchford
Williams
Mulhern
Clark
Harrison
Currie
Nicholson
Holmes

Mikaele
Amor
Bullock
Walker

If he persists with ratchford as his half back next season(and he says he will)then the first 6 or 7 games of 2023 will be as painful as the current ones. That's if we manage to avoid relegation.

I’d like to see Wrench and Thewlis combine at centre and wing. With Wardle and Ashton the other side that is some serious pace. That would mean Ratchford and Matautia to be at 1 and 6 in any sort of combination

ohh, thats good, i never thought of that.

A disappointment for me is that we don’t really utilise the pace of our back line.

Early in the game I would mix in an early kick for the backs to chase, even if just to plant the seed of doubt in the defenders. It would prevent the outside defence rushing up and putting as much pressure on our attacking options.