Missing Houghton, I think it's that obvious, 5 players out today that would make the 17 IMO.

Need to keep battling on until Danny is fit.

Really interesting and tough league this year and we are in a great position, think some are being overly critical.

Warrington made both major finals last year. They had their first choice spine from what I could see, Atkins and Hill back, home advantage and nice conditions for them to play expansively which IMO they did in the 2nd half. They were poor in the first half and we were in the second. A fair result, actually they probably deserved the win. Great that the competition is close this year, I see Widnes got off the mark today. I think we may still have the best defence in the comp too?

Spot on (well, the bit I can understand!)

I couldn't make it to Warrington today, but was at Wigan last week. Take out Danny Houghton's amazing tackle count each week and there's a lot of tackles to make up for the rest of the team. That, in my opinion, is why we're fading in the second half of games.

No idea what or how I wrote that, only had one beer this afternoon

I agree. But we better get used to it - isn't he 6 weeks off? Was Green rotated today or is he injured? I'd give Taylor a rest against Salford as well, need him big time over Easter.

We got 3 out of 4 points from Wigan and Wire away after not playing to our full potential.
On another note, the middle eights looks like it's going to contain a couple of pretty powerful Super League teams.

Green out with a back injury.

Wakey chipping away aren't they and Salford going well.

Tough league and going to be a really tough middle 8's, even Widnes aren't as bad as some are making out, picked up points in tough away games and ran Wigan close, have key players out who should be back for middle 8's.

Think Catalans will sack their coach this week.

2 hours to get there from Leeds, M62 a bloody nightmare again. Came off early and went up the East Lancs Road.

Should have won that game but another thriller and hung on for the draw. 3 points from those 2 games I'd take all day.

Looked lively when he came on, some good scoots, but passing a bit suspect.

Yes we will miss Danny Houghton but he is not the reason why we are fading.We dropped the ball twice on zero tackle in crucial defensive positions and gave away silly penalties again.
There is only so much defending you can do under pressure before the line cracks.
When you look at the game Warrington made several crucial errors and gave us our points in the first half rather than us creating the position and putting on pressure.
We have to start building and maintaining pressure in the opposition 20 rather than looking at teams gifting us points or a piece of magic from Albert Kelly otherwise i can see both Salford and Leeds turning us over at home.
Griffin is also a liability in defence.

3 out of 4 against wires and wigan is not to bad whatever position there in, best defense in the league and 1 point of the top, challenge cup holders to boot and yet some still bicker amongst themselves lol,

Agreed - we are making too many mistakes, but keeping pace in the league (today - just!) I'm confident that as the season progresses we'll start to find our feet attacking-wise and hopefully will eradicate the stupid mistakes. that's how Radders earns his crust!

Regarding Warrington's mistakes, that's all part and parcel of the game. A fair proportion of of all games' tries could be seen that way. As others have said, we'd have taken this position at the start of the season and we can only get better (can't we?!!)

Disappointed we failed for the 2nd game running to kill off the oppostion after opening a decent lead in the 1st half only to see us be our own worst enemy and let the opposition back in.
On the flip side i'd have taken 3pts from a possible 4 with away games at Wigan & Warrington and all this whilst still not really playing well for 80mins only for periods at a time in games.
Main worry is still the lack of ball retention at times and stupid penalties we are giving away.