I think teams have worked him out - last season he played most of his games against teams who had never seen him before - he was injured for a fair junk of the 2nd half of the season.

I know coaches watch videos, but nothing can beat being at a match and watching what you see rather than what the camera sees.

Think his confidence took a major hit at wembley and he's never fully recovered IMO. Also think he would be better playing left centre.

Getting over the top stick. Doesn't help our fans are as thick as **** though. Knob on radio says his confidence is shot and we should get rid (think about that comment)
He isn't being all that bad, just making some basic errors with some very ordinary defending!
Attack wise he's a great player to watch, very natural player. Think him along with a few needs some continuity in their combinations defensively. Halves seconds and wingers different each week nearly!
His form will soon turn, just needs to learn a bit faster as similar errors repeating!
He's not remotely hall esq imo as I've seen him described

I wouldn't say it was unfair criticism as he has been guilty of taking wrong options & making mistakes. However the level of criticism is unfair & over the top. He is a young player in inly his second full season after a wow in his first and is low on confidence as has been mentioned he is definitely a different player when Lineham is alongside him. I think Radford should take some of the blame for selecting Arundel to partner Crooks instead of putting Whiting alongside him to stiffen up the defence.

It's not really doing any good Radford playing him if he's that low on confidence he needs taking out of the limelight for a bit and I also don't think slagging your players off publicly like Radford is doing is going to help either

Len Casey syndrome.Slagged players off in public to cover up his shortcomings

If and knows its a big if Carvell is back for thursday would it be worth using Thompson at centre in place of Crooks after all he was signed as a second row/utility back

That's a good idea. Ablett at Leeds is a good example of this. Plenty of go forward and strong in defence.

I think the lad just needs a pat on the back and his confidence boosting not been slated by his coach same with miller and Rankin when both of them scored they was over the moon and really hyped up and then Radders goes and point the fingure at them for one or two back kicks I'd go with Horne and Thomson as on Thursday try something different

Cant see Yeaman getting dropped unfortunately

I think it's easy to forget how young he still is, and last year whilst he played really well I think he was bigged up too much by sky etc, because he's far from the finished product.

He's got bags of talent but he always seems a little mentally fragile imo, whereas you look at Tom Lineham and I don't think anything at all would phase him. I think he will feel a lot more comfortable having Lineham back too.

I think the lad is a good attacking centre but if he wants to play super league he has to defend better and make far fewer defensive errors. Anything else is flannel in my opinion and making excuses for players is a big reason why we never get any better. His progress in the future is entirely in his hands and I seriously hope he makes it but he has to be much better when his team don't have the ball.

Think it would be useful to put him out to Donny for a months loan and let cookie give him some confidence.

Can't see it being a confidence issue or he wouldn't be kicking goals from the touchline. Is he OOC this season? Maybe we have changed our defensive structures and he's taking time to adjust

i agree 100% with what you say.