Lee has the final say (hopefully) but you're trying to tell me that Radford one day thought 'I wonder what that Talanoa bloke is doing nowadays?'.

Lee Radford.

From what I heard Sam Burgess who is good mates with radders suggested we look at talanoa having known him from playing at south's together I believe this conversation took place during last year's world cup

Radford left the Bulls when Sam was 15/16.

18.

Not sure whether they ever actually played together, but Burgess was around the first team when Radford was still there.

He will do they are told to say nice things about eachother..for the papers.

Dobson's defence was appalling, yet I'd take him like a shot, if he became available.

Regarding hospital passes, Horne is culpable also, his passing speed for a HB ,is IMO , one of the slowest I've ever seen.

Where do we go from here? , I cant see Radford/Tony plucking a 6 or 7 from the NRL,who can control a game.

I've got nothing against Horne but let's not forget his failings this season e.g couldn't unlock widnes defence in 80 minutes.

The way I see it is that Horne isn't going to improve, Miller will given the game time - let's give the lad a proper run. And I don't buy all this singling him and crooks out for defensive mistakes - last season our defence was awesome at times with both miller and crooks playing because we defended better as a team.

I thought Miller (and Rankin) both went ok on Thursday. Looking back it was their combination that ended up with Shaul getting held up over the line, which was the first time they figured out Rovers' "rush" defence on the edges. Why they weren't allowed to continue to exploit that together and Horne was brought on I don't know

With regards to Monday I'd probably go as below:
Shaul
Colbon
Crooks
Yeaman
Talanoa
Rankin
Miller
Bowden
Azza
paea
Ellis
Thompson
Westerman

Watts
Carvell
Whiting
Horne

We unlocked the widnes defence at least 6 times but our execution was poor on the night (it was ing it down but still inexcusable)

What's Hadley done ?

All I've seen so far is;
Radders will always favour his mates (Yeamo and Horne) and won't drop them even in the poorest of performances but sends others to Donny for not being as bad.
He seems intent on spending the valuable remains of our salary cap on rubbish like Colbon!!

The problem I have with Miller is that he must be coming up to 20 games now for us yet I've not seen an improvement since his debut at cas and unfortunately we can't carry a player in such an important position

I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm not a fan of Radford as coach. However...

Horne has done nothing worthy of being dropped so far, and if he was that big of a mate with Radford then he would have started in the halves on Thursday and not on the bench.

Yeaman did get dropped. However, our injury situation right now means we have little choice but to play him.

Yeaman hasnt been dropped this season.