Drop Bowden when we have someone to take his place not now.We are running on fumes at the moment
I also said we should start Big Chris on the bench for a few games as he is the only real impact we have.
I would start with Bowden and Sao with Satae,Fash.Brown and McNamara on the bench.
Like you say McNamara could cover Houghton but also the coach could bring him on for Sneyd at some point and see if it benefits our attack.

Cas are missing a few after the weekend including Evalds and Trueman, so we need to take this opportunity to pick up the points and get on a run.

After this week, we’ve got a good.9 day break before we go to Leigh.

Yeh great idea, split up the best thing about our team, Satae Sao smashing it up when on together, I’d prefer for our bench players step up more and lesson the impact of either one of them going of, we want our best players on the pitch together at the same time, for as long as possible

Current injury situation

Josh Griffin (achilles) - will miss the rest of the season

Scott Taylor (foot) - expected back in four to six weeks

Joe Cator (calf) - expected to be back in three to four weeks

Jamie Shaul (ACL) - back in full training in three to four weeks and available for selection around six weeks after that

Masi Matongo (knee) - expected out for a few months yet

Jude Ferreira (shoulder) and Joel Speed (hamstring) are both our for a few weeks and Harvey Barron (leg fracture) is expected to miss between three to five months,

Wigans game has now been call off .

I'm sure we'd all like our bench to have exactly the same impact as Satae and Sao but the fact is they currently don't. As it is we lose a lot when they both leave the field so one way of mitigating that is to split them up and try to maintain a steady level of impact.
It has its pros and cons certainly but its hardly the absurd notion you suggest it is.

We would all prefer our bench players to step up but its quite obvious that whilst the effort is there from the players we can all see there is no impact from any of our bench.
Thats the reason Hodgson rotates Sao and Satae rather than bringing both off and introducing the two bench front rows so as to mitigate the impact loss.
There is no stigma asking our best Front row to come off the bench when required to give us some intensity and impact especially as he would be running at some tiring players.

Not absurd, just pointless, what’s the point of having our best front rower sat on the bench, both capable of big minutes especially Sao, what’s the point, start the game as you mean to go on, and let’s get better performances from the bench, rather than punishing our top performers with a bench spot

No stigma maybe. But I’m not happy if I’m the best front rower sat on the bench, and rightly so

Facts are not his strongest suit.

.... odd that we're 2nd from bottom for SL tries scored this season, but were 2nd from top last year before the playoffs.

So setting up tries against Salford and Huddersfield in meaningless early round super league games is more important than costing us a semi final...


We was favourites at that moment until he threw the most dreadful pass ever seen even Jonathan Davies said what's he doing