Why not Patton/Roberts...after wembley id be dropping Brown before Roberts. Are we completely giving up on Morgan Smith? Answer or not i expected more minutes from him this season.

Those two only played in the halves for six games (in 2014), and we won all of them. Myler was out of the side at the time, can't remember if he had an injury.

The Ratchford-Bridge partnership was ended when O'Brien came in to the side, and Ratchford moved to loose forward and then centre. Bridge moved back to centre when Myler came back in and we finished the season with Myler and O'Brien, which was broadly the partnership for 2015 apart from a spell mid-season when Patton came in.

Slightly off topic but to pick up on this Lefty quoteRoberts is wobbling around the pitch, chewing gum, trying to look the cool kid.'"

I know the halves could have done better but i think part of the problem is the lack of threat in the second row.
Jack hughes gets a 9 out of 10 in defence most weeks but if an attack gets anywhere near him it grinds to a halt, is that him or Roberts. livett didnt look right or out of his depth on saturday.
It would be a fair bet to say that some of the last words that Price said before the players left the dressing room was to build pressure and control the first 5-10 sets of six.
I have thought for a while that when we are put under any form of pressure we panic and individuals start to play the hero and solve problems on their own. I dont think that the playing group as a whole is inferior to Catalan or Castleford and maybe Wigan but averthing goes out of the window when a team puts pressure on us.
Just one glaring example of this was Catalans first try. Goodwin races out of the line at 45 degrees to shut down Mead from getting out of dummy half but we had 4 players (Brown, Goodwin,Livett and Lineham) against Mead, Jullien and Tierney.
He is an international centre who tried to solve something that shouldnt have been a problem. That is either pure panic, lack of trust or wanting to be a hero. That is just one of a dozen examples from saturday. Each player needs to be smarter if we are going to go to the next level.

I don't think we have the current players able to go to the next level. The one's you expect to, can't.

One aspect of our attacking play that needs addressing is the utilisation of Livett.

At the moment he is being used as little more than a battering ram, yet the lad is second only to Ben Currie in terms of skill amongst the forwards. Whether that is down to the inadequatecy of our halves or playing to instruction I do 't know but we are missing out on a potent weapon.

Livett to stand-off, Thompson to back row?

Yes Livett had a few belting games earlier in the season (Leeds away I remember), where he had a dynamic running game. He has offered very little since then for whatever reason. In fact both our 2nd row are a problem in attack.

Watching the tv coverage, the team looked disinterested from the start, was plain to see there was some th wrong..to be in a final and not give it your best is shocking

Livett was possibly the poorest player at Wembley but he is better than that. I think he was off because of his return from injury.
It would been harsh on Harvey but I'd had gone with Pomeroy in the final.
Big games ALWAYS find out who's injured and/or not 100% fit.

....and I'm sure Harvey is feeling a lot worse after his poor showing at Wembley than he would if he'd have been left out for not being 100%.

Pomeroy was not in the 19 man squad.

Wasn't he?...ok I thought
Atkins was 18th man.
Pomeroy was 19th man.
After Sika was banned.
Pomeroy was in his kit training on the pitch along with Atkins.

....but regardless it means nothing because I said "I'd" have played him.

Atkins was 18th man, Pomeroy 19th. I have no doubt that both will get their chance against Hull FC on Thursday. Westwood has been playing on one leg for a while and BMM looked to have sustained some damage. I can't see either managing a short turnaround and no doubt there are others carrying knocks.