Fair enough. These things happen. Hopefully only once though.

Probably worth adding I spent the match with Wire fans I met in Toulouse back when we played them at Carcassonne. They tell me Wire rested three and were missing a fourth due to a bereavement.

We’re missing a few ourselves- not that it would have made a lot of difference……

One thing I did find interesting was the presence of a small playmaker for Wire. (Albeit a back up.) I'm told their third in line is very young, very highly rated and vey short by pro RL standards. Are we begining to see the high tackle changes already influencing what clubs look for in terms of height in some positions?

We could definitely do with Bienek but the sad truth is no it wouldn’t have made much difference.

Yes he was very short. Yet we still struggled to put him to the ground.

For a professional sportsman he was very short. Leon Hayes I believe. About 5 foot 4 and half inches. I looked him up as I was interested when I saw him. Actually looked shorter, but that was because of the giants around him.

Macani was vulnerable in defence. Walker wasn't back to his reliable self. Campo was pedestrian. The defence was poor. Meadows was one of our best. Oli made the biggest impact when he came on. Team selection was poor today.

Agreed Leyland did well and Kershaw works very hard. Thought Butterworth did quite well but generally there are too many who are anonymous at this level. Id like to see a few of our players cutting out the crabbing sideways and just moving forward and a quicker PTB.

Could we swap out Macani for Boafo. IIRC at championship level he was prepared to make hard metres and defend - not sure if he’s a massive step up from Macani defensively but he does have real pace and unlike quite a few of our players simply wouldn’t be caught if he broke away.

Can someone please explain to me what that halftime thing was that went on over on the far side of the pitch.
Something to do with Brewdog. Two kids doing something, however it was being played out in front of nobody.
The stand close to it was empty and all the hospitality that overlooked it was empty, everyone had ed off inside.
It was in truth rubbish. In the same way as was our defence in the game.
Plus if you are doing something with the assistance of our sponsor, give them something for it, put some signs up.
The club have a history of giving little back to sponsors.
Kids playing for a Brewdog voucher, did I get that right? Seems wrong to me.

Like everyone else having stared at the floor for five minutes I went into the fan zone so didn’t see but they had a competition on Twitter following up on a post where players tried to knock down cans by throwing the ball accurately. Tellingly they didn’t do well. The idea was people who commented on tweet would be put in a hat with one LB fan and one wolves fan battling it out to win £60:worth of brew dog vouchers. Didn’t look a tremendous take up and bemused to hear 2 kids battled it out. My view - a little thought/prep is best when running these competitions to ensure they look professional. Hopefully we’ll improve next time but big worry is reducing crowds make us a less good team to sponsor. Come on Broncos get some players in before this season goes down the pan.