Like against Hull KR, Giants, Wigan, Castleford?

Yep, exactly like that

. I do think that Morro should be made captain. Lynch did a good job, but Newton helped him out.

Agreed, I just hope we can hang onto Lynch, quite a few clubs should be interested in him when his deal runs out.



Suppose it's easier to look good playing for a good side as he did at Leeds. I reckon he can do better though.



He gets better with every week, but has still a lot to learn. Good to see him getting more gametime recently. I'd liek to see him be a bit more aggressive, he's a big lad and could do more damage if he got more stuck in.



Langley does the donkey work but that's about it. Can't remember the last time he broke a tackle or gave a good pass. At least his technique around the ptb has improved a bit, he seemed to give too many penalties away last year. He needs to up his attacking game IMO because he just doesn't offer anything in that dept.



In recent weeks we've had no problem scoring tries so it's not as if we need the killer offloads. If he can't be disciplined with the ball then he should be left out. The last thing we need as you say is a "lawn sprinkler".



If Burgess, Scruton and Langley find some form then we're going be fine but those three in particular need to extract the digit.

If you swapped Morrison for Solomona at Wakey we'd have won the game.

Agreed. solomona shouldn't be given much game time against wire, he's a liability.

It was always obvious that we would sorely miss the talismanic big Joe Vagana, but perhaps we didn't realise just how important he was to us.

Joe - what are you doing till October?

Probably thinking "I got out of there at the right time"

We do missing having a big fella coming on as an impact player, McNamara clearly saw this as a gap given the attempt to get Moi Moi.

Alas I think Joe's decision to retire was the right one at the right time.

Use Solomona as that, maybe he could throw his weight at the opposition rather than throwing the ball at them.

Solomona was certainly an impact player last weekend, in a negative sense!

However you're right, if he can stop trying too hard to offload then I would play him in short bursts off the bench. His fitness would be less of an issue then too.

Endacott reckons that's the role he's best suited to (you'd think I was selling this book!)

You are, aren't you! Stop trying to disguise it, you've just dropped yourself in it. Endacott won't be happy.


Btw. Wire are giving away free flags with tickets to Friday's game, we don't want it to look like there's a huge Wire support so can we all dig our flags out.

I personally don't rate Kopczak that highly to be honest. I think he is probably a lower end SL prop (so suited to us right now). I can't say I have seen much potential to be anything other than a hard working but fairly average prop. The sort who will do a job for you, without ever having enough to dominant a game.

TBH I did think the same but he's shown a few more glimpses of potential lately now he's had some proper gametime rather than being thrown on for 10 mins here or there.

I think he'll come good given time. I reminded of how many of the Leeds yougsters didn't shine immediately and took time to mature, like Burrow of Jones Buchanan for instance.

I'm not convinced he's the next JJB or Peacock to be honest. He's still young and looks willing to learn so you never know but I'd like to see him tighten up in defence a little. Notice a few times this year him taking the wrong option in defence, but this should improve with game time.

He's a second rower primarily, and he's playing tomorrow night for you.

Every time he played against us he was a .

Is't that a problem with the whole team Menzies has missed more tackles so far this year than the whole of last year.

Brian McDermot.

For me Burgess is a better prop when he plays in the backrow he tries too hard to be something he's not.

Hmmm Brian McDermott had a bit of a fear factor and toughness about him. I haven't seen that in Koppy yet.

But playing ability wise he was very similar to Kopczak.

Ah, but how good is he at taking out three Leeds players inside three seconds in semi-finals?

We have to get to a semi-final first before we can find out thats the hard part.

True, there IS that...

Legendary piece of footage!