Son of a Bitch!

To lose Whiting is a massive blow as for me he has been one of the stand outs this season and very rarely let us down and feel for him. Also gutted about Calderwood as he has just never had an injury free run and he has shown when he has played what a difference he makes to the team.

Should be interesting to see who gets a chance now.

Hall and Nicklas may get a shot.

By the sounds of it the break is around the area repaired last time, could be very difficult to treat, real sympathy for Whiting.

Really gutted for both players. That will be the end for Calderwood at Hull I reckon. As for Whiting, that will mean no more Tansey at SH although I am not too bothered about that as I am not sure it really worked.

Hall or possibly Lyne to play on the wing with Washy back in the halves.

No No No Paul anything but that please.

washy has got to stay a LF. He looked so much better at loose than he does in the halves. Gets through a ton more than he does at SO and doesnt need to influence the play as much. At loose he can play his natural game of taking the defence on with a decent step that hes got. 43 tackles against rovers for washy and he didnt play the full game, am suprised nobody gave him as much raps as what i thought. I thought he had his best game of the season and work really hard

Is young Jack Briscoe ready ?

I appreciate that Paul but Washbrook is too slow in thought and deed to be stand off, he played his best rugby of the season in the Derby at loose man (no surprise as that is what he is). Leave him there and play anyone else at half back along side Horney - Berrigan, Hall, Nicklas, Luakai (ok I'm joking). The Horne/Washbrook combination is proven failure lets not go back there again.

The back 5 will probably be:
1-Tansey
2-Briscoe
3-Turner
4-Yeaman
5-Hall

Hall plays far better on the left hand side and moving Tom to right wing isnt a problem.

Backups of Lyne and Tuffour.

For friday I would go with Washy at 13 and Berro/Horne in the halves. Hopefully we will see a different Berrigan after his performance against Rovers and with Horne looking good and an extra pivot in Washy at 13 plus Tansey chiming in from fullback we have lots of options. Which considering the injuries we have is a sign of a strong squad.

Gutted for both players. Massive loss for us. Such a better side when both are playing.

team id play on friday

1. tansey
2. briscoe
3. yeaman
4. turner
5. hall
6. horne
7. berrigan
8. dowes
9. houghton
10. cusack
11. manu
12. tickle
13. washbrook

interchange
14. lauaki
15. moa
16. radford
17. burnett/lyne

but if o'meley is back then cusack on bench an drop lyne and burnett

Gutted about this. Whiting has been one of our top performers all season, and I was really hoping that Calderwood would go on to the end of the season in good form and earn a new contract. Not happy.