a good few teams havent got cash to throw around and lang park makes a decent point they rely on the coaching staff to get them through our recruitement was good enough to take 4 points of your superstars this year throwing cash around dosent guarantee anything ,no trophys next year and a few will be chuckling at you

ATEOTD we shot ourselves in the foot again and got what we deserved. If we'd have held on to the ball a little more during the 80 mins we'd have got the win. The high number of handling errors (for a dry night) cost us massively last night as we turned the ball over far too many times & in critical areas of the field, just too many brain farts.

Still think its a mistake not having Connor in the centres from the off with Griffin 2nd row especially when missing Sika then Bowden & Paea. Plus we gave Sneyd no protection last night when Wigan continued to target him just like Warrington did in semi.

Our attack was so flat with no movement last night and not for the first time. We also have too deep an attacking line so invariably lost 10-15M on the ptb as we were not running on to the ball so we just passed the ball backwards each time surrendering ground.

Really disappointed to be honest as even with the short turnaround we should still have won as that wasn't the reason we lost it was down to poor handling, dumb rugby at times and poor execution.

Yet again though O'Loughlin seems untouchable as the high shot on Masi should have been a minimum yellow card but as usual not a word said and a pity someone didn't flatten Isa either.

and most of them were kids

Plus teams roll us down the middle 60 to 80 metres in six tackles

No agression. Honest question you ever played the game ? Agree on our pack needs sorting and that's being addressed. We have got what weve got. Think we will win 4/5 of our last matches and get 3 rd

Thats why Tuimavave needs moving to left centre (its his best position) to bolster the left edge.
It would also solve Radfords problem with Kelly/Connor.Connor can play Right centre with Kelly at 6.
Griffin should be starting now in the second row and interchanging with Manu and Minichello

I think he has had enough time as coach to put that play into motion more often.
If fans can see it surely the coach can
When you have three repeat sets in the opposition 20 and dont score that tells the story,not just in this game but season after season

Got to agree with what others have said. This thing we are doing with Connor currently just isn't working. I also can't understand why when he does come on we are putting him on the left. It makes no sense to me. Connor looks much more threatening linking with Kelly and with the pace of Naulago outside of him. Defences are frightened to death of giving Ratu an inch, and that was creating space for Connor to do his stuff. Carlos just can't create an opening like Connor can. I also feel like Carlos on the left would stiffen up what is probably our weakest area in defence.

Next week I would definately be going with a backline of:

Shaul
Naulago
Connor
Tuimavave
Faraimo

Griffin in the second row. He can always slip into the backs of there is an injury or if we just want a tactical change.

Actually my preferred option would be what we saw around Easter time. Kelly playing full back in attack and Connor playing there in defence, but as long as Shaul is fit I just can't see him being left out.

The pack is what it is. They will hold there own but just aren't good enough to dominate games this year. Our strengths are our pace and power in the back line, along with the skills of Kelly and Connor. We need to make best use of that. We aren't equipped to win too many forward dominated arm wrestles this year.

Agree great post.

Romain Navarrete 25
Sam Powell 27
Oliver Partington 20
Willie Isa 30
Liam Farrell 29
Morgan Smithies 18

Tony Clubb 32
Sean O’Loughlin 36
Liam Byrne 19