never understood the chmaberlain criticism.  hes not a flash player, but very solid indeed.


as much as we rav about asiata, i still think hes under rated (sounds strange i know) BUT i dont think its a coincidence that Lam doesn't look half the player he was when asiata was at Leigh, also look how good sezer and cust have been with him in our side.
whatever we are paying asiata, we are getting a bargain!


Knight, for me is a 'keep at any cost' 
if tha quota rules doesnt come into play, I'd be looking at moving rapana on, sign Knight with his spot and keeping Briscoe for another year as cover (unless we sign another outside back) its harsh on rapana, but i think Knight would be better player to keep going forward.


another note, i think it maybe an idea to give young martin a rest next week. hes been immense for us, but with that rule this season about playing 'x' amount of mins in a season plus, hes made a few errors recently, i think the kid could do with a rest now.
hopefully rapana is back for next week, so play him or briscoe out there.


any updates on cust and asiata (both looked very uncomfortable)

Agree re Herman and the week off shortly will come at the right time. Think the experience that the likes of Sezer, Hardaker bring to the team can not be understated but the way both of them have integrated into the club/team in unbelievable and it is paying off so far in the way they are performing. 

With Herman and Knight they are both being overplayed due to us not having any fit second rowers and us seemingly having an endless amount of in game injuries which causes weekly reshuffles and always seems to result in bigger minutes for these guys.


Hopefully once we get some luck with injuries and some bodies back they'll go back to proper spells.

Fingers crossed Cust will be OK for the Catalans game. He got a similar knock at Wakefield but played at Cas six days later.


Asiata a massive loss though of course. We'll just have to hope for the best there.

I'm not sure Herman has dropped off but teams are now going all out defending against him.  Pretty much 3 players on him as soon as he got the ball most times he carried last night.  It's good that it opens up opportunities elsewhere if we're smart enough to exploit it

Sounds like Cust will be ok, according to JC


asiata said he heard a "pop" and needs a scan to see the serverity of it. id go with balmforth at 13 if asiata is out (likely)

I like the idea of Balmforth at 13, but he couldn't do 80 there, also means Amir doing 80 again.


I suppose it depends how long Asista is out for  a couple of weeks could use a middle forward, longer maybe needs more thinking.

With Rapana being back I wouldn't be against seeing Hardaker at 13 if I'm honest as think he has the ability and RL brain to do a good job in the interim. Guess it all depends on the seriousness and length of time Asiata will be out for and available bodies. Whoever it is that steps in at 13 pretty sure JC will have made the right call. 

I'd imagine asiata could be around 6 weeks at least which is a blow.  If he heard a pop it's generally at the more serious end of the prognosis.


We don't have much luck with injuries.


Maybe 2 out, 2 back next week so we're getting nowhere plus I have no confidence Cartwright jr will last more than a couple of matches

For me either Fash or Aydin come straight in at 13 both are mobile and can play big minutes.

Didn't see the game but saw some highlights this morning . Good two points in what sounded like a game of two halves again .


If results go our way this weekend , We could have a little gap opening up from 7th spot .