Thought we played pretty well this evening and with a bit of luck and more composure could have won.

Forwards were excellent, think we actually played with 16 players as gwaze didn’t actually come on the field.

We did however look awful under high ball and could have conceded several tries, brough struggled defensively throughout.

So if Atkins is fit does he play on the wing ? Hampshire to fb or escare to scrum half ?

Hopefully england will be fit to give us a 17 th man that gets on the park

Am away but my ear will be glued to the radio

Thought we played well few daft mistakes at crucial periods of the game cost us.

Up the Trin

the final piece of the jigsaw will never be dropped by Chester he is the chosen one the messiah

Just watched the tries and miller got brushed off for Clark’s try and charnley walked over rocky for his try .Yes brough and BJB couldnt stop their try but the game was hardly lost because of broughy

If everyone is fit who played against Warrington then all I would do is bring England back in at prop on the bench for the pack.
Chester says Atkins will play so its just a question of whether Hampshire or Arundal make way.

Against London, we need all the pace that we can find.
Although they have out enthused us in the firs 2 encounters this season, their main threat has been pace and width, especially with Dixon, who is lightening quick.
If we go with Atkins, who hasn't played for a number of weeks and Arundel on the left side, we are asking for trouble.
We have to do a job on Abdul and Dixon but, London are a very mobile side, who like to shift the ball.

This scares me more than the Cas or Bulls MPG

I think that we will all be praying fo Salford to beat KR and Catalan to actually get off the plane, rather than not turn up again.

I agree about the spped and width of play but the thing that catches us out is their standard diamond play when Abdul runs with an inside and outside man, and a man out the back.

We need to cut that ball off early.

I never understood why we didn't just batter their forwards into submission.
For me, certainly in the first game at their place, we should have just banged the ball straight up the middle all afternoon.
Maybe it was the 2 early scores that made us think that it was going to be a walk in the park but, they absolutely ran us ragged.

I'm not sure that playing Atkins, who will be way short of match fitness, is the right thing to do.

Maybe we should use an old trick from the round ball game and narrow the pitch by a couple of yards on each side, just to compress the play

I’m worried we are going to get out coached.

Ward will be going over every fine detail to assess our (many) weak spots and come up with a game plan to exploit it, which will be well drilled into his team and they’ll play it to the letter.

We will come out and do what we always do, and likely play right into their hands.

Not looking forward to the game at all. If the forwards really fire up then I still think we will win, and hopefully Salford will do us a favour. No point relying on Catalans they are on the beach already.

Chester has already said Atkins will play.

Good point about the diamond move if you have noted it ,why not our coaches. We have had to good performance against the 2nd and 3rd teams .My worry is we do not seem to play with the same commitment against so called leser teams,and let them dictate the speed of the game.Thought the kicking game in OpenPlay was it and miss last night, but if you think back to last two games did not see there halfs do a lot ether apart from Wires no6 who is class

What a disappointing end to a very poor season
We can't have confidence in our team because form has been dreadful, although I appreciate a little better in the way of effort in recent matches.
So, we go into the London game under conditions none of us wanted.
Anybody who thinks this game is going to be a comfortable win for us must know something I don't know.
Additionally, we can't rely on other teams doing us a favour because it doesn't work that way
Sadly, the writing has been on the wall for weeks - if I had been coach I would have tried something different 5 or 6 games ago, let's face it we wouldn't have been any worse off than we are now - in extreme danger of relegation, and nobody to blame but ourselves.

Think this is a mistake to be honest, regardless of where he decides to play him.
I don't question his ability, but I would question his match fitness, seeing as we have been having issues with players coming back into the team and having to play and not being 100% fit.

I know what you are saying and personally I wouldn't put someone in for their first game in the biggest game but Chester makes a fair point that we need some big game experience which he has and someone who can give us go forward when returning the ball which he has too.

He is clearly a fit guy, and has been training with us for 4 weeks I think now.
Everyone that comments says he's a good influence in the changing rooms which they probably need too.

More than anything he can bust tackles and since we find it hard to stop London, we are going to need tries.

Inclined to agree. Atkins has only played 12 games all season, the last of which was mid-May. Whether he is a fit guy or not there is no match fitness at all there and likely a lack of timing that only comes with playing. If he plays for me it would be off the bench for a couple if spells as an impact second row.