The most worrying thing for me on Friday was that Sneyd looked lost, there has to be an issue in the minds of the coaches as without doubt he is a better kicker than DJ but he isn't given the duties. I would bring Owen for Howarth, have long on the bench and then if needed we could bring Long on and maybe try Sneyd at hooker (he certainly has a fair bit of size about him) as a stop gap. To have Sneyd and Lon on the pitch at the same time might give him first hand experience of watching a master of his art at work. Also agree about Ford (though I'd give Gleason one last game this weekend to show he wants to carry on his good work for the rest of the season) and I'd look at giving Towers and the lad they brought in from Saints as a winger/ a bit of game time.

Salford being annoying as they are will probably go out and batter either Hull, Leeds or Wigan away from home to frustrate us all and as I say elsewhere finish just outside the top 8.

Jon Ford is currently touring Australia with the England Academy team. He played in their 28-18 victory over NSW Juniors this morning

This lad is in the England Academy then surely he's worthy of a run out in the first team at some point before the end of the season. Especially if Gleeson continues to play absolute dog s**t for the remainder, as he did against Widnes. (I’m not on my own when I say that I think his mind was elsewhere that night)

Apply the Paul Anderson rule of thumb and build for the future, if you’re not part of it then there’s the door. I know there is still the rest of this season to play for and I suppose you have to pick the best players available to help us push for the 8.

I think we were disorganised & too laid back on Friday night. Widnes looked fired up and together in warm up - we looked like it was a training warm up - drifting on the feild in 1's and 2's. We gave away 10+ pens for obstruction going forward and offside in defense. Now if we were calling the plays wrong - they sorted it out second half as we gave away few pens, but were too far back by then and chasing the game. Rememeber a lot of our problems also came from dropping the ball at vital moments - not the fault of the half backs all that.

If there are leadership issues then hopefully that can be sorted on the training ground. To be fair we won with Mark Sneyd at 6 at HKR ... Matty Smith was a vocal and experinced half back - Sneyd is new and will only grow in stature by playing matches. We should resist changing the half back combo unless there are serious confidence or tecnical problems.

I hope Joel is fit for HUll - he is a star. I also hope we come out of the sheds like Widnes did to us - fired up and mainly error free. If we do that - here's hoping.

They may have sorted the penaltys out I don't know but nothing changed, it was 0-24 at half time then moved on to 0-40. In my book they sorted nothing.