I'm sure some posters here are gutted that we came away with a win.... Despite all out injuries to the squad, and the illness we recently had, we are currently top of the table.

For me it's the lack of options. In addition to the below there is a lack of runners, poor offloads, basic passing mistakes and bad decision making (which to be fair was Gregson a few times last night but he doesn't have the experience to know when a move is on and when to come inside).

Plan A; inside pass that's worked once maybe twice this season yet we try it 15 times a game.
Plan B; swing it out to the edges and hope the defence makes a read error. Our passing accuracy, passing speed and inability to draw the defender kills this move every time.

I hope we develop more to our game than these two plays when we get Sam, Williams and Lockers back. Until then I guess we just have to put up with it. Doesn't help that Sutton is absolutely not a pivot at 13, he's not a ball player at all, I've no idea why Wane keeps persisting with that.

I've heard from a rumour we've enquired about Albert Kelly from someone within the club.
I treated it as mere gossip, but he felt Kelly was someone we're interested in for next season.

Interesting. He's been ok with the ball when I've seen him but terrible defence and injured half of the time?

In fairness I haven't seen another of him to judge. Don't know if he'd make a good signing or not. I can recognise his strengths as a player, but not seen enough of him to make an educated comment.

Spot on. The idea that somehow Smith is under strict orders from Wane is daft and doesn't make any sense. Look at Gelling; I'm sure what we does doesn't always please SW, but he still gets a game every week! And rightly so, he was great again last night, with the good vastly outweighing the bad.

I was a 6' 2", 14 stone, quick Centre, i would imagine having Gelling coming at you would be a bloody nightmare...

Heh! He is a big lad when you see him close up, isn't he?

Yep, and i don't regard myself as "Small"...

Id probably look at a place on the bench for Tomkins at Dewsbury just to ease him back in for 20 mins towards the back end as long as he's 100% ready.

I agree about Wire as well. There's potentially 6 players to come back but to throw all of them in would seem too risky. I'd probably look to hold Williams back and only play one of Farrell or Joel Tomkins (whoever is closest to 100%). I'm guessing Tautai is going to be missing also.

That would leave us looking something like-

Sarginson
Manfredi Gelling Gildart Charnley
Lockers Smith
Flower Powell Mossop
Tomkins Isa Bateman

Clubb Crosby Sutton Gregson

That's certainly as strong as we've been since Good Friday.

We would be better of with Albert Steptoe. One for the teenagers to google.

That would be an interesting replacement.

From a guy to misses a lot of tackles to a guy who doesn't tackle at all.

Hmmm ...

Why do we always have 4 forwards on the bench?
Do backs never get injured? Why can't we have other options?
SOL doesn't seem capable of playing 80 minutes and Gregson for all his honest endeavours is never a 6 in the memory of man.
Id be tempted to put Higginson on the bench.
Personally I wouldn't have Isa in any starting 17. Has he made a break yet?

We don't "Always" but I agree 90% + of times we do and for me it's a straight forward answer.
We usually have 5/6 forwards that can do a job in the backs but not many backs that could go the other way.

At a push Farrell/Joel/Bateman/Lockers/Powell/Isa can all play in the backs

Whereas I would probably argue Gelling (And even then I bet he's not played 2 games there over the last 4 years) is the only one who could do a similar job the other way.

With regards to your other points
Lockers - He can do 80 mins and has done when he's played in the halves and 13 - Not when he's injured though
Gregson - I agree he's not a long term option but with Lockers/Williams/Tomkins out and Powell covering for Mickey Mac I'm not sure what other option he has (Please don't bring Hampshire into the argument - For whatever reason they've not recalled him and whether I agree with that is another issue but without the full facts I can only go with what we have).

I thought Higginson showed up well against Warrington - However realistically the only player who he could have replaced in the 17 last night would have been jack Wells who I thought put a decent shift in.
Either way not sure how having Higginson on the bench would have changed/improved the nature of our performance?

As for Isa - Thought he had a decent game last night (Apart from a poor dropped ball early 1st half) after a couple of average ones on returning from injury.
However (And I was going to bring this up a couple of weeks ago in the middle of the injury crisis)
I remember Monie saying in times like these he would pick his best 17 players and fit them in.
I tend to agree, I'm not sure which player didn't play last night would have improved that performance/result?

We were missing who weren't available due to injury etc :-
Sam T
Dom Manfredi
George Williams
Mickey
Dom Crosby
Joel T
Liam Farrell
Sean O'L

Who didn't play apart from those that should have been picked and with all that experience missing who would have provided that experience?

Needs must really at the minute. What I will say is that once we're at full strength I wouldn't mind seeing us run with Sarginson on the bench. He can cover every back position and I'd also like to see how he could go spelling at 9 with Sam Powell. If we want to change things up and go a bit more direct he'd really challenge defenders running out of dummy half.