No and the criticism of players is sometimes unwarranted. Mik wasn’t even that bad last year; just not up to his usual standards.

I don't see a problem with saying a player is playing poorly when they are as long as it's respectful and leaves the personal stuff out.

It must come over the Radio then for you to hear it .

Never in well over 50 years of going have i heard it , yes supporters pick on players but colour has never come in to it within my hearing

To be fair ive heard racism on the terraces in the last few years, it wasn’t our terrace though it was at Cas and the lads shouting it were swiftly booted out.

Unfortunately racism and bigotry seems to be on the rise and it’s due to the non existent culture wars the politicians seem to want to fight, but that’s a totally separate OT point.

Another level kinda accusation

Yeah of course. But with Mik it’s not like the lad was trying to have a poor season and he started injured without a proper pre-season.

We like to refer to Sangare as Frenchie ( like a beautiful blonde er... pineapple) though thats going to be confusing now with Goudemand, To get the best out of him will be tricky, he needs a little bit more space to get moving before contact , which means standing a bit deeper at the play the ball and who ever is at the ruck then has to play different for him which is a pain but would be even harder to stop actually running onto the ball and he has to be carefull with the raised knees he might need to accelerate
. What do you call a dummy runner who isnt actually running.... but at the same time he has been carefull not to run into the line and cause an obstruction. Still think theres an effective prop there its all about his own confidence and his half backs tee ing him up right.

I just don't think Sangare is a problem player. He's a rotation prop and massive, takes juice out of the opposition and probably not wildly expensive on the salary cap.

What we do need is Mik, Tom and Sam in good form around him, and ideally one or two more props coming through the system like TNW.

If Mom gets a ban for this one I'll be fuming. There was clearly no contact with the head and he had a right to tackle the player who had just touched and then dropped the ball. It shouldn't have even been a yellow card; and Salford basically stopped playing and ran in, forcing the ref to stop the game while we had the ball on a counterattack... bonkers.

If Mik and Lisone continue there form on from Friday we will go well, Miks stats were pretty good and head and shoulders above any other prop on the field.

Sangare went ok aswell

Catalans up soon. Their injury faking antics seem to have re-emerged big style. Make Salford look like men of iron.

Yes, it’s quite sad really. To think that we used to mock footballers for feigning injury and mobbing the ref at every other decision. Who would have thought Rugby League would turn out just the same. It’s understandable that a lot of ex players and older supporters have no interest in the game nowadays. It’s quite damning when you hear fans talking about how good certain players are at winning penalties for their team.

This one is down to refereeing. It’ll stop pretty quickly if they bin players for dissent and time wasting etc.

Amusing to hear Rowley talk about the game being played in good spirit when he had clearly instructed his side in toilet tactics to slow the game down.

No bans for us for HKR then?

Parcell banned for KR though.

Holroyd in for Donno and Ruan for Bentley at HKR. We need brawn.

It really is going to be hard not to get disrupted by bans as this season goes on - this could work against us up front (or give game time to Hudson / TNW)

Brierley also gets 1 game for the headshot on Croft.

That one I can live with clear contact with the head.

I'm sure Smith something on the lines that Hudson wont feature for the first team anytime soon.

We need a bit more size and go forward in the pack. Donaldson isn't a prop and has never made yards, and Bentley doesn't make dent in the defence either. I'd definitely look to Ruan and TNW if they are available. That pack against Salford felt a bit too similar to the worst of Agar's "middles" days....

In fairness our props made far more metres than Salfords.

Not sure Holroyd will be back for this one so it will be pretty similar on Thursday as the Salford game

He can't start again with Donaldson at prop surely.

want to bet?

Goudemand will start at prop and Mcdonell or Gannon will take Donaldsons spot

Imo

The big worry with the pack we've got is that it struggled against a very poor side.
Against a big powerful pack like Cats, Wire, even Hull (never mind Wigan and Saints) we could get steam rolled down the middle.
That will be those teams plan against us.
And we will be bemoaning lack of size and punch.
Good test on Thursday cos KR is a sizeable step up from Salford.

Did they struggle?

We made more metres missed fewer tackles, more line breaks etc.

We also won from a try from a prop forward.

We are a prop short there's no denying that, and I think we will lode the forward battle against some of the teams you mention, but once Holroyd is back I don't think we' will struggle as much as people think, and they certainly didn't struggle against Salford as is being portrayed.