shame for the kid, good player, hope he gets sorted,

Was that a real danger?!

I’m trying not to think about it tbh - I feel about as optimistic for this one as Craig Sandercock sounded in his pre-match interviews.

So... is it starting to look like 4 from 5 having to run the gauntlet of the middle 8s this time around? Ourselves, Widnes, Salford, Hudds and Catalans? Catalans doing their bit to improve the chances of 14 teams in SL in 2019, though they remain very slim imo. McNamara won’t survive many more defeats, mind you.

Losing to Saints isn't so awful, we did pick up some very worrying injuries to key players though.

However we do have a raft of players to return against Hull including our first choice front row of Scruton, Lunt, Jewitt which is possibly....only possibly...more important than the loss of McGuire, Heffernan and the desperately unlucky George Lawler.

We'll select from whoever is available and give a good account of ourselves.

We all know the Derby will be tight, if Lunt is back that will be a huge boost, Mcgure out will really hurt you as he really makes the difference in your attacking structure. We have bee really hot and miss, hopefully Houghton will be back, as we have really missed him.

Also best wishes to Lawler, best wishes to him, he is a good player and a great kid, I'm sure he will come back stronger

Widnes look very poor on paper but their home advantage is significant.But yes 4 from that 5 will be in the middle 8. Widnes picking up that Leeds win may be key? Derby wise I'm no more or less confident than I was as us losing to top side and them beating bottom can't be read hugely into. The injuries are a problem as Lawler looked class thus far.Heff can be covered by Salter or less likely VaiVai. Salter is solid enough.Mcguire is a blow and Marsh/Atkins is what it is? Quinlan had a good game again would be tempted to put him in half's and Dagger /Moss/Marsh at FB? Agree with everyone's good wishes for Lawler and it's very tough for him.Also thought Donno had gone again at one point .Those 2 lads have had terrible luck.

There’s a gap in quality between us and the teams i’d expect to finish in the top 6, which includes Hull. Natural enough for a newly promoted team. Our conditioning over strength and work rate over strike approach arguably makes it even tougher to bridge the gap. With a bit of luck and some complacency on the part of the opposition, we’ll hopefully pick up the odd shock result along the way. However, I doubt Radford will allow his team to fall into that trap this week, and your strengths are pretty much a perfect match for our weaknesses, sadly.

I genuinely hate to be negative but, while I expect us to have a dig and our spirit seems good, I fear you’ll roll over us.

On a more positive note, we don’t seem anywhere near as dappy and prone to calamitous collapse as in the latter years of our first spell in SL.

We were better than the scoreline reads but no doubt best team won. Derby week and fans will go through every emotion between now and KO.Are we underdogs? Probably but we are at home and we haven't won a live Derby in a fair while. Who knows?

In my 40 years watching Derbys I have learned never to take them lightly and expect the unexpected its a game we need to win for the points alone I'm sure it will be a nail biter as always, I saw a picture of Lunts injury and I would be amazed if he's back over Easter unless the club av no choice speedy recovery to young George brilliant young player who deserves better luck

Whats been said about the Saints game is true. The score was harsh, injuries were hard to take, but the best team won. We put plenty of effort in but blew chances when they came our way.
On to next week, and once again the half back situation rears its head and we do not have enough cover. With McGuire out who do we put in. I have made my opinions clear on this before, as much as I want all our players to succeed, in this league I fear Marsh is not the answer and too anonymous.I hope he proves me wrong but having seen plenty of minutes from the kid, in my opinion he is not the answer we need to stand a chance, I want it to work out for him but I think his long term future lies elsewhere.
What do we do, Quinlan to half back for speed and elusiveness? Dagger or Moss to full back? Whatever, this need sorting.TS is the boss and we have to trust his judgement, but its frustrating when something like this was always going to happen.
When we lost Campese and Kelly, look what happened.. here,s hoping for some luck, we are going to need it, but we must back the boys and get behind them. Plus Heffernan and Lawler, you coudn,t make it up!

a fair summary of the game by all, a bit of a bruising game , competed with them for large parts, a couple of smarts got us , as long as we can field a decent squad when it matters later on we will be ok, one bonus is we wont be playing saints in the middle 8s, mulhearn and lawler until his injury continue to impress ,a lot more optimistic than last year,, 3 or 4 players away from being permenant top 8 side ,just grit your teeth for the next few weeks, we should be ok come September,

That's how I see it as well.A long road ahead but right people steering the club