Gone quiet crowt123, cat got your Tongue?

uptoncat your a very naughty boy. il bring you a spelling test up normy and then we can improve your english, ffs

This is pretty much how I saw it, and we weren't helped by the ref. Having said that the scoreline did flatter us I'm afraid to say and I never felt we were in this one.

JK needs to drop Gleeson as teams are now, opposition teams are now targeting us down that side with considerable success. JD looks like a shadow of his former self and although I can't knock Obst's effort he lacks the kicking game to unlock defences.

On the positive side after losing Brough it will take time to adapt, Cookie is starting to show glimpses of what he can do and Gledhill was once again solid. Kirmond looked useful when he came on in second half.

I think switching Murphy to centre is a sound idea as his defensive game is top notch and am inclined to agree re: george/morton for blanch. I would start with Kirmond and have JD on the bench.

I doubt JK will make many changes as he likes to let players redeem themselves, but surely he needs to address Gleeson's defensive frailties.

and the award for most pathetic post of the week goes to....

UC agree with your post. Gleeson, and imo Blanch, were poor tonight. TRB you say stop the sliding defence it doesn't work and i agree, but only in that some players have suddenly lost the ability to implement it.

In the first half our kicking was as bad as i have seen in a long long time and barely improved in the 2nd half. As much as he tried Obst was very ineffectual tonight. Cooke looked rusty and needs time, Henderson was the only one making any kind of yardage.

Was worried at how Davey was dropped from the bench to make way for Kirmond, not that I dont think he should be involved but that we looked unbalanced.

Worried, but hopefully we can stuff our rivals on friday....

Whose gonna write the spelling test for you to give him

oh and talking of naughty boys you arnt half in trouble with me mam when you get home

Think jk has persevered long enough with gleeson - his defense has been shocking this season, time for a change.

Have to say that although we were poor defensively it was our lack of tactical kicking and ball control aligned to a lack of go forward that really caused the problem, obst was awful with his kicking first attempt a poor kick straight into to touch - a series of aimless mid field kicks and then near the line both obst and cooke trying to thread the eye of the needle.

Thought wolves set out to stop our front row playing and just beat us up,

TRB, Can you tell me what defensive structure the Wildcats should play. I am curious thats all

The consensus around me was man to man. We do not have much success with the sliding defence - if you get it wrong (as we do) it looks horrible.

TBF to Warrington - their handling and momentum were good enough to expose us in those areas - as were Hudds and as were Wigan at BV last year (Ainscough x 4).

Yes I am another poster that totally agrees with your views.

Time to give Gleeson a rest but that leaves us with only Millard and Murphy as true centres in our squad.

would have to agree with previous posts, we were miles off the pace last night.

gleeson looks very out of form
blanch not playing half as well as morton was (poss not fit)
jd too slow for a centre and not creative enough for loose forward
sam gives his all but seemed to be trying to cover hooker as well when latu was off
tronc must be sick to death of being used as cannon fodder, trundling up the same channel where the opposition are stood waiting to hammer him!(just a random off the wall idea but why not miss him out once in a while?)

it could just be transitional. losing brough, jeffries, johnson and newton was always going to have some effect on the team.

with the half back situation we cannot start without an interchange hooker, thought young davey has stood up well so far

Thats because he went to hooker when Latu went off. Morrision to 7 and Cooke stays at 6.

which pretty much sums it up for me