Brian Smith said this week that any player not giving his full potential may lose his shirt to someone else. May I suggest he starts with Tim Smith. Anyone of the supporters in the stand could run around with an arm in the air and probably kick better. On the attack today he threw a Wally Lewis 100 mph pass to one of the forward who was less than 3 feet away. No wonder he didn't catch it. Give someone else a try we have endured his woeful attempts at play-making for long enough. Riley should also be replaced. He has had long enough. Played all season and scored 7 tries while Tom Johnstone with only a few games is one behind him. With a class centre Johnstone could be scoring for fun. As for Robert Hicks-what a walker (sorry missing N) Missed offsides, elbows and knees in tackle several head shots and gave Salford penalty after penalty because they couldn't get out of their own half without him. Maybe Mr. Cashcow had a word with him.

Spot on regarding Smith

waste of time

Smith is a one trick pony and every team has worked him out . Its OK saying he should loose his shirt, much harder to find someone to wear it and do a better job unless we sign someone pretty quick.

However if anyone should loose their shirt it should be Chris Riley, he could easily be replaced and improved upon.

Actually though he looked better today - but all things are relative I suppose

Congratulations on being the first poster to have a go at Brian Smith's rotations, I'm sure you have a lot more experience than him and are savvy to all what was happening on the bench and the field....

Annakin I thought went well in the first 15 minutes but in his second spell he didn't appear quite as focused and gave away his usual needless penalty which is becoming a trademark. I do like him as an impact player but don't kid yourself he is the real deal yet because he has a lot to learn and if he has the right attitude he can learn lots under BS.
Oh and remember BS gave him his first start in a long time, not bad for someone who you have decided is his loser.

No one else to play in that position for us, we only had 19 fit players,less probably next week

Bit touchy aren't you, time of the month is it ?

Not questioning Brian Smith rotations, I also rate Chris Annakin and always have done. It was just the circumstances and the timing of the substitution that leads to my pure speculation on who the shirt looser could be. However there may not be a shirt looser at all.

So you weren't questioning the rotations, just the "circumstances and timing of the substitution"? Classic.

Think a prop will lose their shirt to Anderson and it'll probably be Annakin.

Had annakin not just come back on ? It did not seem he had been on more than ten minutes or so when he was taken off after the Hansen try.

I thought the same, it looked very much like a reaction to the try.