Agree with other comments, needs a proper hooker. I almost fell off the sofa when Lilley was awarded MOM. Some of his passing was criminal. That said Cuthbo and Singleton were running hard and making good yards.

Agreed, I'm not gonna bag out Lilley, he was never Man of the Match.

Did he not fall over at the ball lol. Made me chuckle in what was a horrible game to watch.

I thought he's done alright so far. I think he regularly makes decent metres, is hard to knock back, takes several defenders in the tackle and hits fairly hard too.

As Sgt Wilko said, solid, not spectacular. But I think you'll get consistently solid performances from him.

He needs to improve, not good enough at the moment.

Awful OP

I thought he lacked go forward and made a couple of fundamental errors against Huddersfield. Never the less, I feel it is bit early to be writing off just yet

agree with this. He will go ok and get better as the season goes on.

He looks unhappy here.

On the Aussie prop scale he is more cross than cuthbertson. Time will tell though

i think he has started ok, gets through the graft.He is obviously a no frills prop up the jumper style total opposite to Cuthbertson but not sure we need a team of front rowers tossing it around anyway.I expect him to improve with s proper hooker to work with and dryer tracks.The big problem here too is a lot of people expecting him to take over from JP but he was a freak once in a generation front row able to carry a pack on his own,the majority of forwards look average in comparison.

He's appalling.

Needs to improve 100%

This

He certainly hasn't impressed the way Cuthbo or Garbutt did....but maybe it's because he has arrived into a 'different team' ....(was he a ever a 'pack leader' down under?)

With the loss of our freak prop, Peacock, and rule changes, you might consider our esteemed coach has even LESS excuse for not using his bloody sub forwards.

Agree with everyone saying give him a chance.

He moved countries to join a treble winning team but has been stuck in to a total make shift mid table looking one at the moment with absolutely no direction or leadership.

I'm sure he will improve as we do

He is a meat and potatoes prop, experienced and solid. With cuthbo playing football, garbutt and singo banging in as younger props, think he will balance it out well in time. Last night was grim stuff but overall the younger guys who have played less minutes looked better than the established group, which includes Galloway. May have been bit of post wcc, post Catalan fatigue on show, which may also have contributed to moon hamstring injury (may not). As others said doubt he has ever played without a hooker before and frankly our whole middle is as disjointed as could be imagined at top level.

Are these new RFL directives?

Spot on. Don't think he's been bad, but neither has he been good.....but then again when the team as a whole isn't sparking then that is likely to happen. If the team as a whole was playing well and he was playing rubbish then I'd be concerned.

We've moved to a new period, instead of Peacock doing it all we have a good balance of props who can all offer a good amount all be it in different ways. If Falloon does a good job when he does eventually play we have the forwards to really do well.

...yeah including even sitting on the bench for the full 80



(The continued absence of our much anticipated 'proper' hooker is a major concern on so many levels....maybe he has fallen into Achurch's books and we'll see very little of him, if anything, this season?



My optimism for 2016 is in ever steeper decline)

Good to see your patience is still minuscule. Remember fondly you saying McDermott had messed up Singleton by being so cautious in using him.

Galloway is OK. Goes about his business and just gets the job done. It is however almost 100 per cent certain if th ball is in his hands that's where it's staying. That can be frustrating seeing how much we promoted the ball last year. He also seems to give me the same feeling JJB gives me that every other tackle he's in is going to end in a penalty.

You've got a better memory than what I have for what I have apparently previously said...


Maybe I was p*ssed that day or evening; or had a bad day with the wife. God knows.

Bring back Jamel Chisholm that's what I say: that could solve all our problems

Eeee those were the days. We need that bloody hooker back in the Aiton role asap.

Garbutt's nearly 27 - surely one of your senior props?

Props don't hit their peak till 29/30 so in that regard at 26 he has a way to go.

I think Mulally has potential. Apart from Brad Singleton none of our forwards have run hard enough or straight enough to barge over from a couple of yards. Maybe they've not had the right sort of service, but the amount of time and territory we've had on opposition try lines has resulted in some limp efforts from our props. I think Mulally could be effective from close range in getting us some dirty, scruffy barge overs from a couple of yards. All the best teams down the years have benefited from being able to smash through from close in as well as scoring the Hollywood tries from way out. I would be giving him a sustained run in the team and not just giving him one spell a game.