He's not good enough to play 6 and not got the size or fitness to play the middle role our 13 does so I don't see where he fits in long term. Swap him with will oakes

Oakes has signed long term with Rovers I think, future international and so forth.

He’s played well coming off the bench this year but his exclusion may be purely tactical. I can see Litten playing on that fast pitch and if that’s the case Radford probably doesn’t want to have a bench with Connor, Litten and Abdul.

Watch the St Helens game

Any evidence Abdul has been dropped, could be injured, rested, I'm not sure his performance are any worst than a few others. Need to find his position though, about the size of Washy so don't see that as an issue.

Looks like Connor is on the bench tomorrow.

Without wanting to split hairs on this subject whether it's through injury, suspension or the fact he's no longer at the club we are missing Watts as a forward and as an individual as we are a quality player short from what we started the season with.

That said we should still have enough to get a much needed win at Widnes though it won't be easy.

Completely agree. We have more than enough to beat Widnes but unless we replace him soon with similar quality, which is very unlikely, we have less chance of having a successful season.

Fash and Masi have big futures but are no substitute for him at present.

Made as many tackles as lane with fewer misses. More hit ups and metres than lane and a try assist. Was he really that bad?

check his passing.For a so called ball player he had a bad day.
Another reason to disregard stats if you are saying he made more tackles,more metres,and missed fewer tackles than Lane

I just took the stats from thee SL website which I presume is fairly accurate

I wouldn't bother, Bonaire isn't himself unless he has a player or two to pick on.

Yes, he's been searching for a target since Yeamo retired.

Hull seem a team that if they went behind at Widnes they may have to dig really deep to get the win.
There doesn't seem to be the 'arrogance' of a top side at the moment, which has it's obvious pitfalls.
However we really should have enough to win by 10.

Given his is not a regular, I would imagine he is happy to play anywhere.

Abdul is a good and creative player. Problem is, I feel he is not fast enough for SL halves

Thats the problem with stats Jake
Could anyone really say that Abdull had a better game at Saints than Lane which is what the stats imply