Am I the only one rapidly losing patience? far from the worst import we've ever had, but far from the 'marquee' player we were expecting. Frequently injured, knocks on a lot and we haven't seen the 'barge over the line with 3 defenders struggling to hold-on' stuff we saw from Willie Manu back in the day.

He's not the scapegoat for tonight, as I felt all 17 had poor to average games..but he needs to start justifying his place in the team and hefty salary.

Dissapointing the last few weeks. Kept hoping he'd step up but just not happening.

But he needs to be played in the correct position and not used as another prop.
He is most effective running wide.
You dont see Ben Currie taking drives down the middle he is used correctly by Smith staying wide using his power and pace and scoring tries.
Play him wide left with Tuimavave at left centre to play off him and the tries will come

does ok, but not what I expected, tonight after each drive he was bent over blowing out his arris, but as others have said needs to be running out wide

Absolutely spot on...He should not be played through the middle..

Both Pritchard and Fonua need quick early ball, so they can use their power
to a more devastating effect..

We need a skills coach, our passing is woeful, we need to employ set moves
near the oppositions try line.

I agree that the passing needs work, its been an issue for many years now not just under Radford. Surely with our Wembley windfall we can afford a specialist skills coach?

to me sometimes we just pass the ball along the line, whereas other teams have runners left right and centre

Id cash him in for a 6 .

If things don't change drastically no way want the 3rd year option. Even 'out of position' he's not anywhere close to VFM. Poor mans Minichello and by a distance.

The passing throughout the squad is simply not up to standard, -IMO.

When we get near the oppositions try line, we look as if, we dont know what to do,
we need more than a kick from Sneyd, or a piece of individual brilliance from Fonua.

We need to appoint someone like Deacon, even (Cooke) Brough, as a skills coach,
these guys could bring another dimension to our attack...

Too many people have watched the highlights package and got carried away
Needs to be used better bit he's still at the very top metre making 2nds in the league

we dont need Brough as a coach we need him or someone like him playing at six

Agree with this. Watched him all last year in NRL and he played left edge to much better effect. That said his stats this year are pretty good. There were a number of players last night who looked distinctly jaded after a tough season.

The problem is he plays the same position as mini and really he should be played from the off. We didn't really need to tie up such a huge chunk of salary cap in him when we also have ellis, mini and manu (although we signed pritchard before him) as back row options. His £175k a year would have been much better spent on a decent 6

When Ellis goes off and Pritchard replaces him I'd move Manu to the middle and Pritchard to the right. Yeah okay it's not his preferred left edge, but it still gets him out wide.