What’s happened to the forward we got from Wigan

Perhaps Latu is here for a contract holiday as with too many signings within the last 6 seasons.

Doro easily outplayed Kibula in the reserves match on Saturday. It's quite right that he's gone ahead of Kibula and Latu.

Luis Johnson limped off with what looked like a hamstring injury.

The one that played something like one first team game in two years, why do you ask?

I'm sure that Latu, Kibula, Patton et al will get their chance once the rest of the squad are in self-imposed isolation due to Coronavirus.

I still don’t get why some people on here want to have a go at Burrell - he hasn’t been given enough game time to be able to judge him.
Latu is nowhere near fit enough to be considered - hence Price’s comments last week

On the reserve highlights Burrell looked like he took his two tries very well...especially the second. He clearly has the raw ingredients to be a good player and the will to succeed so he should be a coaches dream. I don't think he's looked THAT at sea during his limited game time either.

I've seen glimses of how good he can be but other times he seems to amble around not doing much or not knowing where he should be. But he's definately a big improvement on last year and he has this season and next to improve further

He did take those tries well. What the highlights won’t show is the ref penalising him twice for not playing the ball correctly, and also dropping the ball with no one near him when I think it was the 1st tackle.

We don't need to be too concerned about Burrell's readiness this season as he is not counting towards the cap. Where it becomes a problem is if there were pressures to play him before he is ready in order to justify the signing or the fact that we are forced to play him due to other players not performing.

As far as I can ascertain the inclusion of Burrell is the consequence of;

Hughes’ injury
Latu’s lack of fitness
Akuaola failing to set the world alight

Akouala seems to avoid major criticism, he is a major let down as far as I’m concerned.

not on here he doesn't, he's always getting complained about,

That being said he had a fantastic game against saints, and was pretty good against cas, i know hit ups wise we didn't use him much but he was pretty good in the tackle, put several big hits on.

The only problem I have with akouala is that he doesn't seem capable of longer stints, he seems to be 10 minutes and gassed which is pretty useless to us. What he is capable of and does at least for his first 5 minutes is good but it needs to be for half an hour or more.