We weren't quite at full strength as our best full back is out injured.

ashton?

That's the one! Hopefully he'll still be here when Powell arrives.

Ignoring the fact it was us though, I have to agree the game as a whole is dying off in terms of entertainment. Yes, it's true we don't have the talent pool we used to, or the top overseas stars, but there's just very little champagne stuff. No wonder we can't attract new fans to the game. And to think last season we were expecting the COVID changes to speed the game up and make it more exciting.

Watching classic games on YouTube (not just Warrington) there seemed to be anticipation that something was going to happen every time a team was in the opposition 40. Maybe it's just me but that spark seems to have gone. Everything just seems flat and nullified.

At least Powell should change our brand of 5 drives and a kick to King anyway.

STEADY matey ... he looks young to me. Would you like to wrestle him?

I've not bought one.

Ways and means dear boy. Ways and means.

IPTV. Belting.

Poorest wire side to watch since 2002 .

Unfortunately it’s all down to tactics.

What with the shambles of the golden point period & "when is a ball steal not a ball steal" ,the RFL seem to be excelling themselves in finding ways to shoot the game in the foot.
Rugby League is a simple game ,keep it simple then everybody is happy. No need for elaborate rule changes .

I find it hard to understand that ,if Hull are this year's team to beat , how they made such hard work against our underperforming gang.

Not up with IT but assume that's an illegal type feed.

Is that how far we’ve fallen?

From playing some of the best rugby I’ve ever seen, battering teams every week, getting to finals every other year, forgive me if I’m not doing cartwheels to get a last minute try to get a draw (when the season being decided on win percentage doesn’t really benefit any team anyway) against a Hull side that evidently really aren’t all that.

I wasn’t taking the pee just stating that I thought Keith Senior summarised the game well for both teams, a lot better than Phil Clarke and co on Sky.
He obviously without saying it out loud implied that Warrington should of took that Hull team apart if they had any attacking nous. He said that against lesser teams we can score fantastic tries from our own half. When we are having to tough it out we are clueless in the opposition 20 metre area and easy to defend against.
Who am I to argue with probably in the top 3 best centres in the Super league era.
I know is trophy cabinet at home certainly backs that up.

Back in the mid 2000s when Super League was probably at its peak, there was a common view on these forums that the problem with the game was too many overseas players and if clubs weren't spending all their money chasing big stars like Jamie Lyon, Trent Barrett and co they would put that money into youth development and a load of young British stars would come in. I remember Huddersfield signing Michael De Vere, was seen as an example of everything that was wrong with the game.

Well as the NRL salary cap outgrew ours, and the exchange rate stopped being in our favour, the top Aussies stopped coming over, but the predicted upsurge in home grown talent didn't emerge. I don't think there's any higher quality in young talent in Super League these days than there was back when the game was full of big name Aussies and guys like Fielden, Pryce, Briers, Sinfield, O'Loughlin, McGuire, Ellis were coming through.

It's probably whats going to happen with Brexit too when all these predictions of a great British future once the migrant labour leaves and British firms 'investing in their own staff' won't materialise. Big firms will just slowly relocate and the economy will be based around low wage gig economy type work.

The game is on its knees. Shocking RFL directive. Rules that worsen the game every year.
Patheric Disciplinary panels that punish marginal late hits, as harshly as grabbing someones testicle!!
They want the games speeded up so players c are more tired. Then we get a Crap standard, and tired players mistiming tackles. We then have games ruined by sendings off, when no-one has even been injured. Then long bands for some of the only players who bring some excitement. (reverernce to Tetevano incicident in CC here)
Can't we go back to a tough, simple game?

Great 2 sentences.
The players are there unfortunately the coaching and tactics are not up to it.
How can a player like Austin be great up to getting injured in his first season, we bring Widdop in to complement him and his form falls off the cliff. I keep on hoping but am now coming to the conclusion he can’t wait to get back home.