i think the problem spreads further than Atkins even if he is playing terrible. You have Trent Waterhouse who isn't mobile or quick enough to play on the edges, Richie Myler he will never be a solid 1 on 1 defender and Atkins who's positional play is average at best.

i think a lot of tries will be conceded through that channel this season. Zak hardaker last try summed it up perfectly for me, Waterhouse shot out from marker and gave up when it got passed inside and then Myler and Atkins wasn't smart enough to cover the gap and zak hardaker just stepped and ran through the hole.

Briscoe ran through a hole both Waterhouse and Atkins left wide open for his try as well. Waterhouse legged it out of the line and Atkins gave Briscoe a little tickle under the arm.

I am now officially an Atkins detractor. Awful, awful, awful.

Atkins has just tweeted about his performances being not good enough so whatever most of us think of him at least the guy is showing a bit of honesty if nothing else.

Big rap for that.
That still doesn't address the issue.
It just means that he too is fully aware as we are.

If you had Grix defending on the inside of him and ratchford when he goes back in to the halves i think that would help him a lot. After a couple of errors he looked completely destroyed actually felt sorry for him when he dropped that pass cold.

Good, well if he is lucky enough to keep his place next week then he needs to pay back tony smith big time for not taking the easy option and dropping him. He owes his team mates big time, frustratingly we know how good he was 2 years ago and just want that version of Atkins back.

Wow he stank tonight, simply one of the worst individual performances I've seen for a while, I think I've got more chance at playing centre next week.

Couldn't catch, couldn't defend, I actually thought he might cry, he looked absolutely shot.

Anyone noticed someone run out about 30 seconds from 2nd half kick off and chalk his hands up?

Ratchford in the centres next week, GOB played well enough to be left alone.

Ratchford in the centres next week, GOB played well enough to be left alone.'"

If he is then that will be one of the first times I'll be genuinely annoyed at Tony Smith, especially as GOB was 10 times better than Myler.

i actually think there could be no coming back from that performance. It might have tipped him over the edge.

I hope im wrong, but i dont think we will ever see the Atkins of 2 years ago. Its been a gradual decline over the last 12 months all leading up to last night, where he imploded spectacularly.

Very poor performance. Riley was dropped last week when I wasn't convinced he was the one to blame. Time to drop Ryan im afraid. If Russell is back then ratch to centre.

I have been saying all along that Riley was being made a scapegoat for Atkins poor positional play. That showed last night with Ormsby. O'Brien outshone Myler who looks a little disinterested in taking on the line the way Burrows et al do. Forwards stood up well last night and much improved on last week. If only the backs had taken advantage.
We could have won that but for our own mistakes throughout the game.

Feel that Atkins needs a spell out of team to work on the basics then hopefully get back to the form he has shown previously.

Atkins never had the basic core skills in the first place.