Dave K.:

I dontthinm pace is too much of an issue, as long as we made breaks we should score with our wingers and when price is back.


We have 3 decent centres IMO in Hardraker, Rapana and Litten, unfortunately two of those have hardly played there, in an ideal world we would have a top class centre  but very unlikely with a quota spot, so unless we release someone, we have those three there next season.


We also have 3 quality  backrowers for next year, just hope we can get them on the field.


Some decent depth too with Bailey, Chamberlain and Hardraker. Add in another year and some league 1 experience for Westermam and Kirby.


Good to see the club looking at the training facilities to reduce the injuries.

Yippee try yay:

I think one problem we do have which may have been overlooked is the fact that we don't have any natural centres at the club aside from Chamberlain, the following have all played centre at some point this year:


Chamberlain- actual centre
Hardaker- played most of career at full back but made a late transition to centre
Barron- Winger
Briscoe- Winger
Rapana- Winger/Fullback
Litten- Fullback


Out of all the above the only one with any real size and pace is 35 year old Tom Briscoe. We need some real size and strike in the centres, looking at players like Nui and Hanley at Leigh, Wardle at Wigan, King and Tai at Wire etc... our centres don't carry that same threat.

Ellam:

All I can say is Lasty got stuck into all of them at training yesterday regarding the players attitude of believing we only had to turn up against Cas and win. My thought exactly I think we believed our own hype after beating Catalan and then put in a dreadful performance, still think we are building and there will be bumps in the road(Huddersfield at Magic and Castleford at home).

Jake the Peg:

Litten is slow off the mark too and was exposed a few times in defence when he played FB previously.  The club obviously see him as a centre, not a FB so we'd likely see moy there before him but it's a moot point as we'll go with briscoe and litten in the centre and rapana at FB.


Cartwright seems loyal and the type of coach who will stick with players

Hasbag:



Yeah I agree with the bottom part. I see him as the type who has let the players know his feelings about Friday, but rather than just start dropping players straight away he will give them a chance to put things right again this weekend. Maybe if a few players underperform again he might then ring a few changes, but I see him going with an unchanged team. Possibly Watts back in for Laidlaw (who I don't think has done bad at all (very solid defensively)) but Watts will strengthen the bench (if fully fit)