Jog on Shaun, you'll be out the door at the end of the season.

A starting 13 without a goal kicker?
Can Williams kick?
I also think that Powell will keep a place in the 17

Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to see SOL retire at the end of the season

Tomkins, Williams and Leuluai have all had the odd go I think but it's obviously a concern. If Smith were an 80% + kicker we could potentially swerve the issues he clearly got but he isn't and the rest of his game is falling apart around his ears.

I hope Shorrocks is putting hours and hours in to his goalkicking because there is a place in the side for a good goalkicker.

I think he will if we win something. Don't think he'd retire after 3 trophyless seasons.

Did anybody else notice the kicks Shorrocks was putting up during the warm up ?
All different and almost uncatchable, and did anybody notice how many he put up during the game ?
I reckon it was zero, tragic waste !

Me and my old man said the same thing, under no pressure Tomkins struggled with one or two of them, in a game situation they would have been very hard to handle, spiralling and high as hell! Would love to have seen him send up a few bombs as the repeated bad grubber kicks nearly had me doing the Wigan Walk.

I think it was actually Higginson who was putting the bombs up for Sam in the warm up - they were monsters!

Is this is a typo?

No, just an extra battering ram. If you look at our sides this season we have used Burke, Tautai, Sutton and Mossop at LF so I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say Crosby could slot in there. I went with him rather than Tautai because he's more mobile and should be able to manage one longer stint. It's becoming quite common for teams to play a 3rd prop at LF now.

I think looking at what we've done this year shouldn't be repeated kast year, replacing ball players with props should definitely not be something we look to unless we have no other option. Our play is bland enough without adding more impetuous to taking everything up the middle.

So, assuming you agree that Lockers can't play the full 80, who goes to loose when he goes off? Bateman and Farrell aren't exactly ball players either. I'd hope replacing Smith with Leuluai would give us more of an edge in attack.

Micky Mac