Wouldnt play Lockers, Manfredi is back this week isnt he?

He’s struggling with his knee and looks unlikely to play according to Lam in the week.

Lockers will play and I would play him but only from the bench.

Id probably be looking to release him if hes still out with his knee, good player on his day but its never his day anymore

You can't just release players that are under contract.

Not necessarily aimed at you, but it's a pretty simple thing to understand and it's exactly the same with Burgess too.

It sounds a pretty minor issue with there being a bit of floating bone causing him discomfort. It would be a quick op and back in 2-3 weeks but they’ve not got that time now.

He’s played enough games this year to not worry me too much but I do think it’s asking for trouble next season if we rely on his availability too much. Over time, I could see Manfredi doing a Willie Isa (who was a winger at the start of his career) and move in to the forwards. He’s shown this year he’s still freakishly strong, he’s tough, brave and defends with real aggression but his pace does look to have dropped.

Yes, really. I appreciate the differences of opinion and if the disciplinary decide to ban him fair enough, I won’t agree with it. For me, if Dwyer wasn’t in the process of being tackled he would have made contact fair and square across the chest. The fact he was in the process of going down and IMO MM was already committed he made direct contact with the head. In any circumstances that should have been a penalty but for me there is enough mitigation not to ban him.

It should be said I was pleased to see Dwyer carry on and no serious damage was caused.

Take the tackle away and he deserves a ban for trying to drag him back to his feet. He knows by that point he’s smacked him in the face, Dwyer had blood pouring from his nose/mouth and he does that?! Really poor. There’s no bigger fan of Micky Mac than me and I’d probably view the incident with biased eyes had he done it in a Wigan shirt but it was ordinary. There are two bans in the incident for me. How he could avoid one when you compare it to some of the pathetic bans handed out recently, is beyond me.

I would be at all surprised if he gets a ban I just don’t think it warrants one. I agree about the lifting him up afterwards, that was in called for.

Also agree about the pathetic bans recently handed out. There are a few players the disciplinary seem to give a ban to just for the fun of it, MM is one, Flower is another.

If we compare it to Greenwood recently the difference between the two is huge. I just think when you are committed and another player makes contact causing the attacker to start to go to ground that has to be taken into consideration. It is impossible to pull out or change your trajectory in a split second.

I’m crossing everything he doesn’t get banned but honestly, I think he should get 2-3 games.

Yes unfortunately.

So in that case we will probably go with Clubby as the extra sub. However it wouldn't surprise me to see lockers starting with Partington on the bench.

So having got the monkey off his back in delivering the league leaders title by beating saints, does Lammy have it in him to lead this team to the grand final and then to be Champions?

It sounded on sky that there will be no announcement on Lammys future until after the grand final.

I'd go with near enough the squad that beat Saints. After that game who would you drop? Me. no one. Also with the size of the Hull FC outfit I'd have more than one prop on the bench. Greenwood won't play so Smith should play from the bench. Hastings is a good kicker but we may need more than one to switch play and move them around.

Big test here for Lam, he's not fared well in the three semis we played in previously under his coaching so he simply has to win this one.

you will be fav and rightly so, but if we can turn up like we did against wires then should be a good match, we have to match wigan for the first 20/25 min