You mean when we were top 2?

Not a surprising result but still very disappointing.
Selection wise we have very options for the next few weeks and even when Havard and Isa return I don’t think it will be enough.
Peet needs to decide who his 6 is and stick with him for 5 or 6 games irrespective of the results. For me that cannot be French or Field. Personally on the assumption that Astley is injured I’d go with Hampshire.
I don’t think that we can afford a hooker on the bench. It’s either Powell or O’Neil to start and I think Powell will get the nod.
Bench next week for me would be Singleton, Mago,Hill and Nsemba. Not earth shattering or exciting but needed to try and bolster a poorly performing pack.
Somehow Peet and his coaching team needs to get the squads confidence back.
The next two games are critical for the season and a couple of losses could really sink any lingering aspirations we have of any silverware. I don’t think we have squad to do it but as always on such a negative view will be happy to be proven wrong.
Interesting times

You hang on to your top 2 in April trophy. When’s the parade?

Tha t seems a long,long time ago now

Going into the Warrington game I think we need to go back to basics with the team and start again and get some consistency maybe a bit of confidence as a result.

Pick a settled team:

1 - Field
2 - French
3 - King
4 - Wardle
5 - Marshall
6 - Cust
7 - Smith
8 - Singleton
9 - Powell
10 - Byrne
11 - Farrell
12 - Isa/Shorrocks
13 - Smithies

14 - Ellis
15 - Hill
16 - Mago
17 - Isa/Shorrocks/O’Neil

Play the next 3 games with this, adjust to suit after that.

In all seriousness based on last nights game I’d happily swap Cust and Hampshire for Brodie Croft, have that settled halfback partner for Smith and take a bit of pressure off him.

I don't think dropping Bevan French is going to solve our issues.

Playing Bevan at 6 though will not work either. There's two options - French at 1 with Field at 6 or Field at 1 and French at 5. I'm not sure we should abandon the first option on the basis of one very poor game in Field's first game back.

Spoke to one of the Saints forwards at the driving range this morning - this was his assessment. 'Good backs, s*** forwards. No power in their pack'.

No different to the "our seasons over" talk in June.

We'll get some bodies back and we'll be tough to beat again. A bit like how Saints were losing games but are now winning them again. Amazing what happens when your best players are fit and able to play.

Forgot French so I changed it quickly after.

That quote from the Saints player should be printed off and pinned up in the training area for the forwards to take as a challenge.

He's right though and everyone knows it.

We have a 'weak' pack as it is and losing 4 or 5 of them makes it worse.

I’ve not said the season is over, I’m questioning the state of players within the side who have no competition and the lack of depth in the squad. We will most likely do what we always do and pick up some wins against the weaker sides and end up in the play offs before bowing out in another lacklustre big game. That Challenge Cup win last year hasn’t half painted over some gaping cracks, we were awful in that too for the majority. Our ‘culture’ at the minute is to not really strive to be the best but never mind, we have a cracking trophy cabinet and send whiskey to everyone so it’s all good.

When we played the Roosters in 2014 Radlinski wrote a blog saying we're too small a team - 9 years later and we're still too small in the forwards, especially the back row. That needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency for next season (along with a goal kicking 6).

Rads actually said at the time that the signings of Mago and Ellis were expressly for this reason.