He looks fitter than Oliver Holmes but that’s not saying much.

He's not been great, but I'm prepared to give him time as he has been injured and it's not easy fitting in to a new side, half way around the world, who are complete and utter dog turd.

Whilst Holmes has been underwhelming, I'd be more inclined to be calling out his second row partner who has stolen a living at the club for far too long now.

Been saying for several seasons currie is not performing. Him and Holmes is a shocking second row partnership. I would honestly rather see Jack Hughes back in ahead of currie, that's how bad he's playing.

Exactly - the elephant in the room. Some of his tackle attempts were abysmal against Leeds.

It's been happening all season. Go back(if you can bear it!)and watch the Wigan and wakey games. Some of his efforts to stop tries in those games made his 'tackles' v Leeds look like morleyesque hits. And yet his name will be one of the first on the teamsheet for the game next week.

Would prefer to see Longstaff playing in our 2nd row.

If Powell is consistent then Currie should be dropped after the number of tackles he has missed.

Longstaff missed one, against Hull, and hasn`t been selected since.

The lad does need to bulk up, which he surely will, but even now, with his 110% effort, he is head and shoulders above our current backrowers.

Poor recruitment AGAIN you say? Hmmmmm……wonder who the common thread of the last 5 years is.

I think it's hard to judge any new recruit coming into this mad house.

Fair point, judge at the end of the season on this one I say.

He will be unfit playing poker in St Bens club most weekends.

If the rumour of Tanginoa is true, magoulias may be on his way out at seasons end. Can't remember if the extra year option is in our favour or his.
But if Tanginoa is coming, he'd be my number 12 and i'd move Holmes back over to the left edge with Currie at 13.
I know currie is a left edge second rower but i think he'd be a brilliant 13

Quote: Or thane "If the rumour of Tanginoa is true, magoulias may be on his way out at seasons end. Can't remember if the extra year option is in our favour or his. But if Tanginoa is coming, he'd be my number 12 and i'd move Holmes back over to the left edge with Currie at 13. I know currie is a left edge second rower but i think he'd be a brilliant 13 It's in his favour. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... -cronulla/

Quote: Or thane "If the rumour of Tanginoa is true, magoulias may be on his way out at seasons end. Can't remember if the extra year option is in our favour or his. But if Tanginoa is coming, he'd be my number 12 and i'd move Holmes back over to the left edge with Currie at 13. I know currie is a left edge second rower but i think he'd be a brilliant 13 It's in his favour. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... -cronulla/

There are not many players that come out of the leeds game without thinking they could have done better.
The biggest shock for me was Darryl Clarks performance when he is normally an 8 out of 10 even in a losing team he was miles off on Fri night.
Watched the sky coverage back and noticed Phil Clark mention that we have the fastest play the ball in the league. I cannot remember the last time Clark jumped out of DH. Now I guess that one of Powell's changes was to make us less reliant on Clark jumping out of DH getting us out of trouble in games but when it comes to the big games the opposition are alert to it. When we do get a quick play the ball we are looking to shift wide quickly. The shift needs all the players to be in shape for that and alert to it and from the first 5 mins you can see it works but we cannot complete the execution. In the last 5 years I have never seen us put wingers in space as much as we have recently which we have all been crying out for.
There are probably lots of changes that have been made that I dont see but we dont have long to start to pull it all together.
If we go down at wakefield and Tolouse beat Cas then there could be some real nervousness.