Long old afternoon ahead I think. Discuss.

Indeed. Just watched West Tigers get absolutely battered, could be a sign they're missing supercoach Hodgson or an explainer for our inherited mediocrity, depending how Friday goes for me.

Maybe it'll be like 2016 with the coach sacked at half time, then it all flips over and we play like a proper rugby team for two years.

Can't we do a swap with the rookie coach of the team who have just beat Wests?
He's started his coaching career like a house on fire and is familiar with our surrounds.

My team would be
Connor
McIntosh
Carlos/wynne
Griff
Swift
Reynolds
Gale
Evans
Houghton
Brown
Mau
Sao
Lane

Satae
Lovaduo
Fash
Bowden

Can't see Andre playing and I think ligi is wasted down the middle IMO his best game this season was at Leeds in the 2nd row he has pace and a good offload.

What’s wrong with Andre?

... knee.

Just a general point re: the Easter fixtures. I see eight clubs are playing on the Thursday night rather than Good Friday. Now I know it's just a day but seems unfair that the Hull clubs, Saints and Wigan don't get that option due to Sky Sports.

Warrington at home

I agree. It's pretty much unthinkable that we could win.
For starters it's almost 3 years since they had the bragging rights, and reclaiming them is a big priority from what I hear. Particularly with a big crowd in.
They are in superb form, with descriptions including "perfection" - the HDM talking about their "stunning ascent". By contrast we have lost the last 2 with lacklustre efforts and in addition to missing Taylor, Tuimavave, Savelio, Cator and Shaul it looks like Satae is carrying a knock. God help us if we lose any more at the disciplinary lottery tomorrow.
Rovers have home advantage of course, and could be slating "timely boost" announcements on extensions for Parcell, Minchella and maybe Smith for this week. Wouldn't be surprised to see a TB on Mikey Lewis and his injury either.
Derbies are never to be savoured, except retrospectively after a win, but this one in particular fills me with dread. Need to keep an eye on the record we set in 2019 when Kelly ran riot in the second half as Rovers will be seeking to eclipse this I reckon.

If memory serves me right I thought when the club signed Ligi it was more to play at LF but due to injuries he was used more as a prop.

Certainly need to wake up for Friday and no offence to the team but fed up of hearing how well they’ve gone in training as it’s time they showed up week in week out when it matters as in in the actual games.

Consistency is non existent.

Still seems to be when the players decide to turn up in the right frame of mind, reading too much about they turned up thinking it was going to be easy, we've had it against Castleford and Huddersfield now already.

Identify the players who turn up with the wrong frame of mind and move them on, we may then find some consistency