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 !

One of our props actually made a break! Couldn't believe what I was seeing when Flower burst through.

I still don't think they're performing at the required level.

To a degree, the French were lucky yesterday. Two of their early tries were jammy, and all through the match they benefitted from some questionable refereeing decisions (including a couple of fortuitous back-to-backs), but I still thought our defence looked flabby in the middle. The other problem is that we're now starting to clock up injuries in the forwards too. Heard nothing about TT, but he looked to be carrying an arm in the last few minutes. If he's now benched, alongside Joel and Bateman, that would be three of the best from a generally under-performing pack ruled out.

In contrast, I thought Lockers had his best game for quite a while yesterday - we really noticed it when he came back on in the second half. But it really is time for the other big-hitters in the pack to up their game.

Looking at the stats Flower and Nuuausala both ran for well in excess of 100m each and their average gain was over 10m each. They must be season high numbers for them.

Defensively we've looked slack across the park in most games (especially round the middle) but you only hope that as usual, we'll lift that when needed. This week against Cas is as good a time to start as any!

They were good yesterday, against a big pack. I thought FPN got some crucial, quick PtB's. Let's hope both he and Flower have come into some good form.