We looked jaded against Quins and Sheffield. Really off colour. Prior to this season the truth is that this group of players year have never been able to put in consistant performances, nevemind the high intensity that Maguire expects week in week out.

In reality the high level intensity Maguire wants from the players is not sustainable week in week out even for the fittest and best squad. This is not a wake up call, this is not the end of the honeymoon period this is rugby league. Its a tough sport and its a long season.

Huddersfield are very good side. We could go up to Edinburgh this Sunday and play well but still lose the match.

"A positive response" as the OP suggests would be very nice but if we do not see it, it is not the end of the world. We have a long way to go this season and I would rather see us hit a bad patch now rather than in September.

From fullback he's been involved in a lot more tries though. in the Castleford game alone, he set up 3 tries and scored 3.

Let's not forget Leeds lost to basement teams for the last few years, and still ended up Grand Final winners.

One bad day I can live with!

for those of us who love nothing better than staying at the top of the table to wind up our fellow colleagues though, the MM fixtures don't read well. KR will get boshed by the looks of things as will catalans, meaning the two teams closest to us in the league will more than likely even up the top of the table and better their defence against point. a few qeeks back i was looking at this past months fixtures as a "breather". not anymore.

What concerns me is that this (losing a big lead from the first half) has now happened twice, after the Bradford defeat many (including me !) thought with MM in charge we would use the 'collapse' as a warning about complacency or drop in performance when a game appeared to be won, mental 'toughness' is vital if we have any hopes of going on to win anything, its no coincidence that 'champion' teams like Man Utd and Chelsea in football and recently Saints and Leeds in our game win matches in the last few minutes with a try or goal. This is not meant to take anything away from Bradford or Quins who both deserved to win the games on the night, but we had put ourselves in a position to take the points and then appeared to lose concentration and let the opposition put pressure on us and 'get a roll on', and sadly, we then appeared to have no answers to the problems that creates. I'm sure MM is more than aware of this and is working on it now, its a trait we have to get out of our game, happening in a league game is one thing, you can make the points up in other matches, but it would be disastrous in a cup tie.

It's important we have at least 3 players back. Those are Gleeson, Tommy/Deacon along with Coley. We played Locky at 6 with Mossop at 13 who will never be a 13, he's a 2nd rower/prop. That for me changes the shape completely for attacking options when that shape has gone, Locky has been superb this year and is playing out of position currently, having Sam back at 6 with either Tommy/Deacon will allow to put Locky back at 13 and the shape comes back of what we had. Bailey doesn't have the pace to cope in centre and is a 2nd rower.

Quins on Friday hammered our right hand side with Bailey there and IMO was to slow for them. I think it's going to be a close game, providing we will have those 3 back. I'd feel sorry for Liam Farrell though if he lost his place as he was 1 of the only positives from Fridays game.

Farrell will be playing no doubt about it. If we get enough players back then Mossop might miss out. Hes really dipped in form lately.