Mostly agree Vasty except that I believe Friendlies will mean something to the coaching staff. I only have two main worries one is the lack of a hooker ( agree that Wood looked good against Cas ) and two the teams lack of consistency when it comes to effort. Some weeks we look like we want to defend and take pride in defending other weeks it looks like we just can not be bothered. Would a Rocky Turner / Shawn Wane style i.e. putting the fear of god into the players help ?

round 1 hull 40 wakey 6 and 3 loses to start season.....

bottom 4 for us on the last 2 friendlies

but they are friendlies

our centres and halfs are not up to the standard for us to be in top 8

centres area real concern

Did you watch the Hull match today? If that's the best they can manage then there's nothing to fear against them

If that's what too much sun does for you stay out of it you silly billy or watch the games

Equally on today's and last weeks first half showing there's nothing for them to fear us. Belly raises an interesting point with regards to consistency in effort in defence.

They do seem to be inconsistent in defence, but I'd rather they took it easy in meaningless friendlies than risk injury by going in for a tough tackle

Exactly and that's why you cannot judge a team on the result of friendly games. The same amount of commitment as shown in a league game simply isn't there. I've seen too many in the past to even bother going to them now. As far as I'm concerned they're extended training sessions. Nice to win but who cares really?

Fans paying their money and stood on the terraces freezing their nads off?

We played our first choice 1-7 for the first half, but only 1 of our starting pack. Then in the second half, i knew more of the Toronto players than i did the FC players. Hardly representative of what you will see at Belle Vue in a few weeks

The result of a friendly doesn't really matter and the early games are bound to have some blowing, but we should be getting better and fine tuning through the later friendlies. The defense issues are in part to effort but in part to co-ordination.
I'd like to see the first choice back line against Sheffield so they have time to get it right under pressure (I'm sure they are doing it at training too)

Please tell us which of our first choice 1-5 played against Fev and Dewsbury.
BJB may feature but, he wont be playing FB, apart from that, it was our second string.

Lyne & Toupu will be just fine at centre and probably Johnstone and BJB on the wing plus, Grix at FB and it was a long way from that option yesterday.

Highlights
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that defence was disgraceful - liam finn and you guys want him to play in the centre of the park!!

change my mind now HULL 60 WAKEY 6

Troll.

He played very well when he came on against Cas