alas, not mine alone, but yes, I did say at the start of the season we would not win a game and I currently stand by that. Bradford were there for the taking. Some of their other "star" performers would have been tapped up this week and they will to a man be concerned about the wages run in 25 days time after the RFL covered the February wages via the administrator. Losing, regardless of how "unlucky" we were or if we need "more time to gel" is still losing and as I have said elsewhere, I can only hope that we start well against Wire next week, because if they get a roll on AND Wakey get a result against the French, then OUR best chance of a win gets smaller.



I've toyed with the idea of a thread regarding the mini-relegation league, but steered away, because currently, HKR and Catalan are filling the spots I though Cas and Widnes would be in. That said, it is my belief that in ascending order Bradford, Wakefield, Widnes, Castleford, HKR and Catalan offer us the best chances of points this season and 4 of the POTENTIAL 24 have already gone begging. Bradford could well pull off a win this week against FC and leave us at the foot of the table 4 weeks in AFTER they had 6 points docked With those points back, they'd be sitting 5th BTW.....


I don't knock your faith or enthusiasm BTW, but the only way we will avoid relegation this year is if more teams go tits up and get points docked or go into liquidation.

So you think hooker is his favourite position?

That's why he stayed in London and not move to Oz to take up the offer here. He thought he'd be first choice, first grade hooker.

ALLEGEDLY.

I like Mike Bishay but I don't believe he has done enough to displace Moore or Cunningham.

Moore has made around 100 metres a game, averaged around 33 tackles and 20 attacking runs per game and has set up 4 tries.

Cunningham has made a strong impact from the bench, making over 7 metres a run and has made 6 tackle busts as well as running well from dummy half and about 15 tackles from limited game time.

Both Bishay and Gigot were anonymous at Widnes and whilst Gigot was much improved versus Salford I don't think the stats support Bishay as being better second time out.

His production has been minimal in fact with just 3.67 metres averaged and 0 tries, 0 clean breaks, 0 try assists, 0 offloads, 0 tackle busts and just 3 runs from dummy half and 4 marker tackles with only 42 metres made per game.

He needs to get much more involved in the game when he next gets his opportunity, which may come soon if Moore is moved to halfback given the possible switch of Farrar.

In all fairness, he probably was when we only had about 7 players.

Absolutely.