Brown missing for Widnes. Massive blow to any chances we had.

Always seems a strange place to go for me....never really know what to expect, don't necessarily enjoy the games there that much, no particular reason !.

On paper we should win comfortably but they have some good players and as we found out on Sunday, will need to keep fully concentrated on the job in hand. Did a decent job on them over there last year and though i expect us to win i don't think it will be comfortable.

Hoping for a positive reaction from the lads.

Looks like Fooey is gonna play 2nd hooker.

I think it's a shame Leeming has been dropped. Personally I would have dropped Wood.

Wonder how many we will take?

kev brown out for widnes? big blow for them... top player

as for us you would think faiumu will play hooker this week

hope taai has a stormer like he did at widnes last season

Why would you have dropped Wood. he was one of our better players on Sunday.

Personally I don't think he was.

Depends what you want to see in a hooker.

He didn't attack the line enough for me on Sunday.

Maybe we are spoilt watching Lunt every week.

Wood made 39 tackles in the middle of the field - not bad for a small guy! Second only behind bailey. Now he didn't make too many metres no - but then he's not a running hooker like say roby, he's a distributer- he did that well he made no errors. He did however make as much distance up the park as our biggest man-
If you want to point any fingers point them at the favourite Eorl Crabtree - a massively disappointing 4 metres a carry......

Think we'll bounce back in a positive way and win this but it will be a tough game. I think you could see our stop-start beginning to the season in that display and they'll all have benefited from a really tough Sunday.

It's important the forwards have an real impact game as the I thought all the big 4 were disappointing - although I thought Anderson's use of them was strange at times - and they need to get in the groove ahead of the Rhino's game.

I'm certainly not having a go at the lad.

Like you say jools he is more of a distributor where as personally I like a more direct hooker.

I also feel that we should be giving young lads a chance when we have injuries, especially against teams like Widnes, and I mean that with respect to Widnes.

We did...Wire away then Salford away.

So we did- tried to forget the awful Salford game.....

Giants hot favourites for this game, widnes 3/1 to win which is a decent price.

crabtree`s lack of yards can be attributed to hkr 3 man tackling him every time he got the ball .they really ganged up on him , no problem with that . what we should have done was throw the ball wider as there must have been gaps . but no , especially in the second half we gave him the ball as a matter of routine , at times he was standing still not expecting a pass , but he still got it , and a 3 man reception committee . one of the many examples of our poor play in the second half .

well said

I don't buy that. There were just as many tackling jerry. If Crabtree is taking the ball standing then he's not doing it right and he ought to run onto the ball. The size of him even if he gets tackled he ought to be able to get a quick ptb. He was the biggest disappointment for me last week.