He's in Ellams team, so he probably is in

Maybe they think Balmforth can back up as the game would've been 5(?) Days before the derby.

I think Joey will come on at 13, but agree Houghton needs a spelling more. I understand the injuries we've had over the season, but would've hoped we'd seen more of Lovodua at 9.

I just wondering if BH sees Joey more as a Mr Fix It, 14, than an out and out hooker.

So no accountability for Taylor, Houghton or Griffin

Brilliant, your lack of effort and slide in performance is obviously acceptable.

This is the part I'm struggling with. We could of played Balmforth and Staveley no excuses.

Think Taylor is incredibly fortunate that Sao and Evans are banned this week.

Why ?

Can easily drop Houghton for lovodua with balmforth off the bench

Cause trust me once lovodua plays hooker Houghton won't play much after

Cause people will then realise how limited Houghton is

Don’t bet on it as I’ve seen nothing so far to suggest BH has it in him to stamp his authority on certain players. Dropping Shaul I can understand to a point but not when Houghton is still in the side as he was no better if not worse. Taylor very lucky in that Sao and Evans out and Griffin possibly given benefit of doubt after being ill.

That’s what frustrates me so much that BH insists on playing Houghton for 80 mins week in week out m expecting something to happen but it won’t.

And your basing that on the excess of footage you've seen of Lovodua playing hooker before yeah? Because that footage doesn't exist. And he hasn't hardly played any minutes for Hull at hooker. So your talking out of your arris, as always

Unfortunately we can't drop many more with the position we are in, I'm all for integrating the younger kids, but you play too many if will be damging long and short term.

Some very lucky players that we have the injuries and suspensions we do.

No return for Ben McNamara this weekend but Jacob Hookem will be in the squad.

That's a shame was hoping to see benny back he has to go with hookem with gale, lovodua at 6 just not working for me

Hookem or Joey to 6 then

Beyond ridiculous now. Can we just do a 48-0 or whatever the Covid concession was?

No expert in sports science by any means but surely the club has to look at its training methods? Injuries happen in our sport but I cant think of any other team that suffers with training injuries the way we do.

I think the move to uni will help massively with this.

To put it politely, County Road is far from ideal