Throw in the beef of Margoulis and we wouldn’t look quite so lightweight. Again, I’m not suggesting all in the garden is rosy just countering the argument that the club had done nothing.
Yours
KF

This is very true. We do tend to scrutinise our mistakes and our weaknesses.
As regards forwards we have lost Sitaleki Akauola, Hill and Doro and gained Bullock, Harrison, Holmes and Magoulias.
Of the new recruits only one out of the four played v. Trinity.

Leeds are worth looking at. They have some umph in the forwards but the form of Sezer (who was outstanding at Hudds) & Austin must be a real worry for them.

Sezer was outstanding at Huddersfield for just a bit longer than Austin was outstanding with us.

Just watched the game back & we were well in it till 70 minutes when the score mounted in Wakey's favour. I thought it was a good game of rugby & would have kept the neutrals interested throughout.

Exactly how i saw it, we weren't blown off the park and weren't as bad as the reactions warranted. We have Daz Clark, Mulhern, Charnley and potentially Magoulias for the challenge cup game so will level things up even more. We need a good response this week though.

this is true

We are getting the full set on this thread.

denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance

We've even had s Wigan fan send their condolences

What's the craic at your gaff then, Ellis and mago (in particular) seemed to give you real edge against us in the pre season game.

What's happening with the other props, who's getting picked out of Partington, havard Byrne and singleton?

We have a team of backrowers. That’s it. Even Cooper is a backrower, he does his best, but alone without a Hill, he’s found out wanting.
I’m not sugar coating ewt, I’ve banged on and on about it since we signed Sims, we haven’t bought a prop since the well passed it Asiteasy.

Every season I’m the hurdy gurdy man, and the tune is always the same.

PACKS WIN GAMES

To be fair RD you have added a new theme that I haven’t seen from you before, namely Cooper is a 2nd row, reliant on Hill and now found out. How this wasn’t picked up at Warrington in his 2 stints or Newcastle Knights when he was there shows how little the professionals know.

Not so much “hurdy gurdy” as “horsey dungy” on this occasion.

You've just poured unmentionables upon the image of Mr Rusty that was in my head.

I think Robbie Mulhern and James Harrison will probably end up being our best possible Prop pairing. But I always thought someone like Samy Kibula could have been the next tank for us in the forward pack, shame we let him go.

For the moment Mulhern is putting in stats at least similar - if not worse - than Philbin, he's part of the problem. Philbin seems to get more criticism because people (rightly) export more of him.

Samy Kibula had all the physical attributes but seemed to lack the impact, aggression and determination to make it as a SL prop, just as most Wigan fans told us at the time.

High hopes for Harrison though.