Way too much arm grabbing and nowhere near enough oomph in the tackle.
Playing like we did in the middle of last season when it all went very flat for a couple of months, I'm with Jon on expecting us to pick up the pace when it matters though

We're in our 'a wins a win' phase of the season and we've seen enough of them now to know it won't last but they can be frustrating. Next week worries me a bit. Catalans were truly awful last night but they'll want to bounce back and it's the sort of place were a lax attitude can soon get you in trouble, with their crowd on at the ref all game and if you panic, you can soon be chasing the game. 

Tonight was Leigh’s Wembley, their fans are a bunch of imbeciles. I too am hoping that Zach is ok but, given that he has gone to Salford Royal suggests that the medical staff are concerned.

Drop Farrell and put Walters in at second row.

Walters has been fairly average as second row, he needs to stay at prop for me where he is much more effective.

Positive update on ZE from the club 


Zach was taken to Salford Royal following last night’s game against Leigh Leopards, where he had further scans which thankfully came back clear. We thank the medical staff at The Brick Community Stadium for their work and support.
We would also like to thank Salford Royal for their professionalism and work. Zach will now receive appropriate care from our medical team at the Club, we thank the many fans for their support and concern shown for Zach.

Good news

Good news about Eckersley, great that the scans have come back clear. Hopefully he recovers quickly. 

Farrell still has 2.5 years left on his contract. Seems crazy considering his form in the last 12 months.

I definitely think it was a year too much but Im hoping we're looking to bring in a back rower for next year that can be first choice with Faz rotating in. Moving him to the right side so late in his career won't have helped but defensively he's really struggling and he carries almost no attacking threat.

Yeah agreed on the positional switch - it's a tough one but if he'd still been playing like the old Faz, Nsemba would've had to learn the right side instead. I think Farrell made one decent run last night but 2 seasons ago he would've done that 8-10 times per game and be our top metre maker. And make a couple of breaks. And score a try or two.

I'm guessing we'll look to play him like Lockers in the next coupe of years but the difference is that Farrell isn't picking up injuries... And Lockers was still playing internationals at 35/36! Faz is probably England's 10th choice SR at the moment.


When you consider that we've lost Nicholson, McDonnell, Pearce-Paul and Smithies from our back-row in the last 2 or 3 years alone, we have still done quite well 

Faz is retiring at the end of the season.