I'm going to disagree as I think the Props are playing to a game plan set out by Wane. We rely on our outside backs to make yards and our Props to damage the opposition in defence.

Tautai comes on and causes mayhem for 10 minutes then is pretty anonymous. Flower is never going to rack up big yards due to his size but he is an absolute machine in defence.

FPN probably underperforming but I expect his stats willl surprise a few when they are published.

Even defensively they've not been great recently. Sutton was caught out at least once yesterday, Frank was at fault for not pushing over for Saints' last try and Cas had a field day going up the middle last week.

I think the props are struggling partly due to our injuries elsewhere.

We rely a lot on the outside backs to come in and do some of the carrying for the big lads, and with the injuries and unfamiliar personnel in these backs, maybe the props have not been supported as much?

Tautai has certainly been the stand out prop in the side though. Really making yards and driving it up with aggression.

well Ive just looked at the stats and a few things stand out from the pack:

Faz - his stats are by far the most consistent - tackles, yards. errors - good in all
JT - poor all round. poor yards, high errors, lots of missed tackles.

Props
TT shading everyone in all categories.
FPN good yards but lots of errors and missed tackles.
Clubb and Flower - distinctly average all round.
Sutton - solid but not making many yards.
Navarette - good promise. Better all round that TC and BF.

I think those figures pretty much bear up what people have seen on the field.

Firstly I'm not a Clubb basher but what has he done this season that has been superb? He has been poor and at times has done virtually nothing whilst on the pitch. If this has been due to injury fair enough but where on earth have you been able to identify superb play?
I like Clubb for his commitment and endeavour but this season he has been non existent in terms of performance.
Props aside TT and Sutton are not good enough at the moment. Time will tell if this is due to injury, capability or perhaps tactics.
Options on the 6th tackle are perhaps more of a worry at present

Re: Clubb, rumours of a lower back problem all season, which he's played through up until last week. Unconfirmed reports that he could be out for a while. Could this still be repercussions from last years crusher tackle?

Up until the Centurions game his stats in terms of average gain and tackles were impressive. Stats aside, his aggression in defence off the bench is usually very effective and he and others really stood up in the WCC against some very strong opposition, which I would say was superb.

From the Centirions game onwards the injury crisis kicked in and our middles have been paying much bigger minutes. Plus they have not had the luxury of Budgie and Gildart (our biggest metre makers) running from dummy half, which is bound to affect performances.

I'm not saying there hasn't been poor performances but I think people should consider the other factors before laying into our players.

We should be pulling out the stops to re-sign Tautai, he is fantastic, we should then be looking at replacing FPN, Flower and Clubb if things don't get better, bring in a decent NRL player, a SL player and try to find a big rawbone Union player, DAVE TAYLOR would be nice

Anyone else think Wane has had a word with FPN?

After an average first 20 minutes on good Friday, wane only put him back on when the game was seemingly won, after the 3 tries.

Dropped to the bench Monday but performed loads better, much improved.

Sutton was great as was Naverette.

I've yet to see the Wrecking Ball live up to his nickname, but it's early days so far.

Yes, agreed. Noticeable that SW was in no hurry to give him a second spell on Friday, I remarked on it at the time.
Better on Monday but still not at Tautai level . Naverette looked very good and certainly deserves more game time.

I hope this talk of us losing TT isn't true.

Saw a headline last night (sorry, can't find link) that Tautai himself was the reason he started the game on Monday, put his hand up to SW and he agreed.
Wanted to test himself and also give FPN the chance to come on midway through the match.

I thought they all put a shift in on Sunday, vast improvement on recent weeks, keep it up please !