Price must take the arm band off Hill, he is a complete liability at present which is no change from last season.

Piemen calling other teams players grubs, wow just wow

Sure as eggs are eggs there won't be a ban for eye gouging....

Sorry but don't see the huge up in arms. It was a dead cert try and all Hill could to do to prevent that was to smash him. He waits until the ball hits the player and then tries to belt him and knock the ball loose. He does, but connected with the head, not malicious at all. I think if Hill hits the shoulders then Powell not expecting the hit would have lost the ball anyway. It was the right play and just wrong execution.

Had to be done in a split second and simply unfortunate.

Aside from that he was having a really good game bar the French try. Saw no reason IN THIS GAME to strip Hill of captain. Last few seasons though, sure.

props will be props... stupid thread... massive overreaction.

lets look at it 6-8 games in... one soft sending off and the other props played well. and we have a thread about props. Ridiculous.

Eye gouge

video doesn’t show Smithies hands anywhere near Austin’s face. Absolutely pathetic showing that from Austin, especially after the way he pushed Burgess over when he was getting back up (after being steam rolled by BMM). Needs to concentrate on rugby and not chasing the ref or that haircut.

Please show me a picture of an eye gouge and I’ll happily apologise.

I agree it was't an eye gouge, but Austin doesn't accuse him of that, it was just grab of his face - seen worse.

Austin was definitely accusing of face rather than eyes, and he was livid. I think the disciplinary will find it inconclusive, the forearm to the throat however looked blatant and he will be lucky to escape sanction. (He being whoever it was!)

Yup. He essentially pinched his nose, he's trying to wind Austin up.

Back on prop topic...we lose one prop and we're fecked.
We said it over and over we need another top prop at least. If the message isn't driven home this week, connections at Wire will never get it.

We signed one. He’s not fit enough and played for Widnes today. Seriously our recruitment is a joke.

And going off the Widnes fans was a waste of space... Our recruitment has been beyond awful

He wasn't outstanding but got through plenty of work. If you'd put the best prop forward in the world in that Widnes performance yesterday he'd have struggled to look anything other than ordinary
Have no SL teams shown any interest in London's Eddie Battye? Top player in my humble opinion

Jeez, did you have to mention Eddie battye! Duckie will be here any moment, He was obsessed with us signing him.

I was very vocal on here about signing Batte. He's a great player.
Best post ever for you Moe.

I'd never really heard of him until he tore a strip off us in the middle 8's a couple of years ago. Been impressed with him every time I've seen him since.

A prop with hands like a halfback with an 80 min engine....what's not to like about that....but we've got Sita.

Hands like a halfback and stomach like a real-ale pub landlord. He gave me palpatations juat watching him get off the bench.

Hill....DON'T DO IT AGAIN!

It's so obvious where we lack.
We simply cannot afford to lose a prop.

It would have helped to have a prop on the bench

Thought this was going to be about Jason Clark for a minute then

But Chris Hill apparently has the "penalty machine" And "liability" trademarks all to himself despite Clark being way and above our top penalty machine.

Jason Clark is a very expensive version of Matt Davis

It would seem that Price was so preoccupied with the ‘How do I fit Widdop, Ratchford and Ashton into the same team?’ question that he completely overlooked the need for two props on the bench. It’s February for god’s sake and we’ve had enough rain to float an Ark.

I know that Latu couldn’t play due to a head knock but Johnson wasn’t the answer. Hill’s sending off at Wigan cost us that game. I don’t know whether he’d have made the difference at Wakefield but he would certainly have made a difference last night. He owes his coach, team mates and the fans a big game next week.

I think that its in the pack where we are coming up short at the moment.
Our pack of late is weak, and the bench is in tatters with zero impact off it.

I want to see Hill, Hughes, and what Latu brings, played for a few games, with Philbin and BMM giving us that bench impact back again before any conclusions,