radford needs to revert to playing ellis and pritchard from the bench. He needs to spell mini and manu properly and give houghton a breather at some stage

Get back to starting Thompson at 13 and shift Ellis to the bench for one of Green or Watts?

Fonuas as big a turnstile as Talanoa - weve had it if we have him and Logan on the same side

Just need to stop this reverting back to a safety first policy, we go into our shells, don't try anything and produce the same old boring predictable performances. Instead of panicking after a couple of close defeats and going all safety first, Radford needs to work out how to get this team closing them close ones out. Not completely changing the style of play completely. Pritchard and ellis on bench, interchanging with manu, mini, get our 2nd rowers playing wider out, instead trundling it down the middle every time, and try getting back to some off load, support play rugby. Defensively don't have us so narrow, need to start trusting the inside man, ie, second rowers not so far in, should help with the /wing defensive frailties

Have a word with yourself! Fonua has only played two games for us for Christ's sake.

Got to say I agree with this assessment. For the most part under Radford I would say we've been the side more fired up for the derbies.

Can see us nicking it. But it will be tight.

Quite simply, we shouldn't drop any points against Rovers on Friday.

Easy to say, and of course derby's are renowned for seeing form (whether good or bad) go out the window, but a look at the two likely teams and this is a game we should be winning comprehensively.

The more likely scenario: A close, scrappy game, poor rugby on show, with either side nicking it by a score or less. 7 games in and I'm sick of playing Rovers already.

I believe a forum is to discuss facts eg past games we have played what injuries we have players coming back from injury. By all means have a go at the team if they fail to compete but to come onto a forum stating we won't win is hyperthetical you don't know this as a fact you don't even know what team we are fielding so how can you know. We have certain posters on this site that have very little praise for our team. But as they say why let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Personally I always thought a forum was for people to express and discuss their opinions. If people only ever discussed facts this place would have shut down long ago! Ha ha.

Some of us are overly positive me included in that. Others IMO are overly negative . Makes for some interesting opinions Iol

Fonua and Talanoa out. Bugger.

Doesn't leave us with many options in the 3/4's. I'd be keen to give Lancaster a go though;

Lancaster
Yeaman
Logan
Michaels

Why, one's played a solitary game and the other's been poor.