If the deadwood of the playing group can’t put a decent shift in against this very depleted Hull team.. then surely Burgess would have pull the trigger on them and give some of younger players a run out

In his pre-season interviews, Dudson was saying how last year was a bad one for him because of off-field issues, but he was looking forward to a much better year in 2024. Round One was not a great start for him though, and we simply can't afford to keep carrying him. If he plays against Hull, it's surely 'last chance saloon' time?

He has signed for Hull KR for 2025.

I'd like to think Burgess will be this ruthless with dead wood like Dudson and Drinkwater but I won't believe it til I see it.

Burgess’ NRL coaching career and future hinges A LOT on his performance at Wire. I don’t think he’s going to be taking any prisoners regarding anyone getting in the way of any success.

Nice bit of interplay last week that led to the Dufty try & Lindop's disallowed effort was marginal. Could've have easily been a different result.

I hope he tears it up, I really do.

His contribution at Catalans was bordering on zero. He is way, way, way off being an effective, reliable forward. He is, and has been, our poorest performing forward by a long shot - not even marginal, for a while.

In terms of the last game I don't know how you can only make 3 carries in 30 mins of playing.

Even Philbin himself made 8. (Vaughan made 15 by comparison).

I remember us signing Parker.
His stats made Dudson look like Morley.
(Tbf on him, he was always the dummy runner).
The opposition eventually got wise and never put a guy on him.
One particular game he actually got a pass, to his surprise, and had a gap to score bigger than Madonna’s 2 front teeth!
Who knew? Could be a moment for Duds yet.

Dud-son is exactly that a Dud, we will be far better off including promising youngsters on the bench than Dud-son. Working with a couple of the young guns will help their progress immensely, whereas Dud-son's inclusion is hindering their progress.

Dudson dropped and Wood in.

Awesome, i think Wood is exactly the extra punch we need, glad to see Burgess doing what we hoped he would. Don't perform and don't play
Who's replacing Dudson though? As wood Surely comes in to replace Crowther?

Top marks to whoever put viagra competitor 'eroxon' on the hoardings tonight while we have a player called Max Wood

Max looks really hard…wasn’t sure if he had a niggle as he looked rather stiff to start, I was worried the coach might pull him off..
(courtesy of Carry On on the rugby pitch).

I hope he keeps his spot and gets loads of game time, he's clearly ready for this level, so lets amp up his experience