Ackers
Barthau
Bustin
Davis
Evans
Garside
Gee
Harrison
Hellewell
Ioane
Kear
Offerdahl
Pearce-Paul
Pitts
Purtell
Roqica
Sammut
Walket
Williams


No returning injured players but more notably, Dixon seemingly dropped!
Right call??

Pearce-Paul straight swap or Walker at full back with Kear on the wing?

Pearce-Paul I would have thought. Not sure about the call, is Dixon over-confident or lacking confidence?

KPP on the wing for me. Keep Kear at full back.

Of course it's the right call to drop him, 3 games not performing

Would have thought the heavy pitch would be against him.

But of a waste of a players wages if he can't play when it's a bit muddy bless him, seriously though if it is a heavy pitch then fine the game is gonna be played up the middle that does not mean the wingers dint play a part.
reality is he has not played well enough to deserve his place in the squad it's good that Hendo has the bodies to replace him

We've a big enough squad to allow for a bit of rotation if a player is out of form.
Remember folks that form can be temporary but class is permanent.

Not sure I agree with that last statement.
You not heard the saying "he was a class player" or "used to be a class player"
with Dixon it will not do him any harm to learn that his spot it not guaranteed and he has to earn it, don't forget KR farmed out to Newcastle for a while.

Long way to go but looking like Swinton & Oldham all over again!!

6-6

Micky, any player can have a bad run of games, doesn't suddenly mean he's never going to get his form back.

Big Junior gone over for his first try?

Rob I agree with you I didn't suggest otherwise, i was responding to the comment that you may lose form but you never lose class!

Into today tho if this is how we played at the last 2 away games am not surprised we only scraped wins
first half, painful to watch.
we are winning the ruck in defence and attack but there is no urgency, no enthusiasm.
second halfvwind at our backs we need to improve

Hopefully Hendo will put a rocket up them at the break, get our noses in front and try and pull away.
COYB!

A bit of daylight between us now 20-6

Not a very good game that one, we were poor. We had no clue how to play the conditions. Throwing long looping passes when there is a 40kt wind blowing down the park is just stupid. The one goal line drop out we forced we fluffed it and ended up tackle 1 on our own 20mtr line. We didn't even try and use the wind to our advantage
No enthusiasm at all. Too many daft penalties AGAIN, far too much dropped ball.
But the positives! it was another win! Dragon was good, junior not bad, sammut had a decent game.
Not sure the wing fullback combination worked.
I know the Refs have obviously been told to crack down on moving off the mark at the ptb and think we saw 3 today, there could have been another dozen so no consistency!
But a win is a win