Agree seymour always tackles his heart out,admittedly he needs to show more in attack,but think he will come good, lets get behind the bloke,

Thought he and Green were our best forwards last week, tbf.

I'd go with:

McDonnell
Crookes
Arundel
Yeaman
Briscoe
Holdsworth
Seymour
Johnson
Heremaia
Lynch
Whiting
Westerman
Pitts

O’Meley
Green
Houghton
Galea

Totally agree. Heremaia isn't the answer at halfback, so why weaken hooker as well?

TBF to Seymour we were that slow at PTB and the forwards were being beaten by the Leeds pack made it very difficult for Seymour or Holdsworth to do a great deal at all as they were closed down so quickly.

The tactics that McDermott employed worked a treat (eg running at Seymour all night) in a similar way to how the tactics Gentle used last season against Leeds at the KC work well for us.

We need to give the Holdsworth/Seymour partnership time to work, Heremaia is not the answer. I think what did show up on Friday was how much we miss the impact of Sam Moa coupled with the absence of Watts.

As for this Friday against the Bulls we need to be ready to play from the off and get in the faces of the Bulls and improve our speed at PTB and passing in general which was laboured.

Absolutely. Heremaia provided some spark when he came on Friday night, all from acting-half. To me, him playing at half-back is just another patch-up.

Fully agree. I'm still a firm believer that that's why we didn't see the best of Berrigan. He simply didn't play behind a dominant pack or at hooker enough.

Is that the same Berrigan whos gone back to the nrl and done nothing again?

You seriously doubting Berrigans quality? He wasn't the best for us, but he was a world class player. Who played in a poor Hull team.

I haven't seen it posted in this thread yet but the squad for Bradford has been released. The only change from the match vs Leeds is that Ben Crooks has come in for Ellis.


Arundel, Briscoe, Crookes, Crooks, Galea, Green, Heremaia, Holdsworth, Horne, Houghton, Johnson, Lynch, McDonnell, O’Meley, Pitts, Seymour, Westerman, Whiting, Yeaman

Eh? He played for the team who made the grand final in his first year back. Only missed out at the end through injury. The year after that his team made the semi-finals.

There's a lot of players who don't achieve that kind of 'nothing' in their careers.

From that squad, I'd play the following side:


McDonnell
Crookes
Arundel
Yeaman
Briscoe
Holdsworth
Seymour
Lynch
Heremaia
Green
Westerman
Galea
Whiting

Houghton
O'Meley
Pitts
Johnson

Same team as last week.