Waney already said Russell had problems positionally on Radio Manc prior to our mauling at home by them. He was his coach then as a junior.

Russell looks bests scooting from dummy half. playing him at wing will mean he is up with play early on so we can utilise that skill.

So many of the mistakes of early season are still there. Do the coaches do anything about it? Russell never links up and rarely passes the ball. Myler will never be a playmaker. Bridge is now increasingly getting caught with the ball. The players were so flat that we had the knock ons and forward passes.
The helter kelter style looked so amateurish against a solid but not brilliant Leeds. We no longer have Briers and Hodgson to organise the play. We were like headless chickens in the first half.

And as for Asotasi and his 25-minute contribution. is this what we brought him across the world for?

Sinfield hasn't played loose forward with any regularity since 2011, one of McDermott's first moves was to shift him to stand off, have him defend out wide rather than up the middle and drop Burrow to the bench as an impact sub.

We've had a lot of players cycle through loose since then. Brett Delaney's playing there now but Ryan Bailey got a good run there before last season.

Carl Ablett has played there but having gone very well in the centres, and having much better hands than Delaney, Mac has put him back in the second row so he can run at defences out wide (as he did very effectively at Briers in the 2012 GF).

Liam Sutcliffe looks like an old-fashioned loose, 6'3'' & 14 stone, good hands, good pace, can hit a gap as well as carry the ball like a forward. Hopefully he'll get a chance to make the position his own.

SOL was the whipping boy during Wigan's fall from grace. The fact that he is Wigan through and through and never gave up made people say some ridiculous things about him. Instead of letting his critics destroy his confidence Lockers carried on his development into a world class LF. If he is anywhere near fully fit in the play offs it will be a massive boost to Wigan.

Back on topic, Wire have a difficult transition period. Is TS the right man to see you through this? Mind you, they may have won the other day but Leeds have bigger problems IMO. The next couple of years will be hard for the Rhinos.

You can't even call it a contribution.

Watching the match back he was an absolute liability. He can't even run.

Laughable. He may be the worst signing ever at this rate.

Agreed, he is just an absolute s***house, its like he is scared of tackling or driving the ball in too hard!!

The sooner he gets his return ticket back to OZ the better.

When he was spelled he ran faster to get off than he did when in play. I am tryinghard to find a name in my memory that was as inaffective as this guy.

Dallas Mead !!

Don't you just love his 2m gain carries.

Hardaker was running at him when he was on the pitch and understandably so. He has all the dynamic movement of a wheelie bin.

he sprinted off the bloody pitch, i couldn't believe how fast he moved. BLink and you missed it.

all joking aside, i think both parties need to agree, its not worked, lets call it a day and move on.

Why would Asotasi give up 150k+ to "call it a day"?