There's a possibility of a world cup in Qatar, that could help on that front.

Dear god. It just gets worse for DP.

….obviously Eamonn Holmes.

When DP took over he talked about building a Dynasty. Have to say the last 2 weeks has felt more like watching Knots Landing.

We don't need money men as we have them already thank god. What we need is strong leadership from the top down and we are a million miles from that and we need a strong coach with the ability to manage change once a game starts.

Knots Landing was a Dallas spinoff.

We played better when the lads were out on the every night

Yes. There were any number of American melodramas I could have used. From a rhetorical point of view going with Dynasty twice seemed to reduce the whimsy. Ah well. Back to the drawing board.

I didn’t realise this was from 2022.

DP doesn’t read SM… doesn’t believe in it.

Also says PM is class and he’ll continue to back him whichever position he plays.

Talk about burying your head in the sand!

He would be very aware of the social media reaction to Peanut, and he saw the calamitous performance and error as we all did.
He can’t shy away from it.
The club have bolted the hatches atm. Very little coming out since Sunday…and I can’t hardly blame them.

Said it before, will say it again. PM will be Powell's downfall.

He's obviously not going to say anything different in an interview but to blindly back a player in any position is a bit dumb imo.

One would hope, now wrench is back, powell would follow up his approach to last year, dropping charnley, giving youth a chance, well he can do that now with matautia

I'll not hold my breath

For all the talk of Matautia, to his credit, he found the space to create 3 try scoring opportunities. He didn’t convert them, but he did the hard bit and found the bits of the field where we had more than them.

As I’ve said already, if he was on orders to play short and tight, then he can’t be held to account for following those instructions. And probably will play 6 again this week if Drinkwater is unavailable.

But, if he wasn’t told to play short, and the plan was to bash the middle, create space on the edge and use the speed of the backs, it’s 3 from 3 spoiled chances. He cannot possibly be picked. At all. Not just at 6. You can’t miss 100% of the opportunities that you get at this level. Even a very raw Riley Dean would have converted at least one, that I’m confident of. Pick Thewlis at 1 and let Dufty have a roaming roll at 6, at least he has pace to get himself into good positions.

If he gets picked this week, I will take that as Matautia followed the plan, until 78 minutes anyway.