I wondered when it would get round to "let's knock TJ" time. The lad's a winger, and a b****y great one at that. How many great wingers can you remember that were also great defenders. In a time when apart from Nos 2,5, 6 & 7 in a team most positions are almost interchangeable TJ's is still a specialist position. Ok, his defence isn't the best but the lad will win us games. The weak defence on the flanks his generally down to the need for better coaching. As 1315Trinity alluded to earlier Offiah seems to have earned almost the status of a god, but his defence was non-existant.

That may well be the case, Towns. That's how he should view the game, being a Cas player, but it doesn't stop him being a Wakefield Trinity fan also.

I really can't decide though whether whoever the wingers are, are they being 'coached' to defend that way? What I mean is, by them seemingly committing early, they are trying to force the opposition playmaker into not throwing the final pass, therefore going back down the middle, because it could be picked off and intercepted? Which by the way isn't working obviously because they just look silly and are caught in no mans land! BJB was pretty good at snaffling interceptions, but time and again him, TJ, Tupou, and even Kershaw in his limited games just seem to be caught out too often, but is it the centres that are making them do this by their decision making?! If you go right back to the first game of last season at London, the number of times they created easy overlaps was embarrassing, and it probably happens every 3rd or 4th game, is it the coaches or the players??

We didn't seem to do it against Warrington and, lo and behold, they only scored one try (and that was down the middle), yet we reverted to type against Cas and look what happened !!!

Correct, and as someone pointed out some time ago, the problem with wingers being drawn in, isn't on the wing, it's in the middle because second rowers and centres are having to help out there!