I'm not saying Mortimer had a good game but Reynolds has not had a good game for a while including last year

Hope that doesn't turn out to be prophetic Harold!



Too many foreign teams in this league!!

We're all after Reynolds' blood, but I don't remember his half back partner contributing a lot - except a couple of breaks, each culminating in him falling on his backside!

Not really much from Hutchison either. Only the old McNally arm waves.

That's what I was saying.

It was a particularly cringeworthy exchange, as you say, he style of rugby was a losing one last season. The stats against HKR in the 8s told their own story, high completion rate but pitiful metres gained as we watched a team more bothered about not making mistakes than they were about scoring tries. There was also an interview last year where Jukes was asked about fans booing, where he said "I don't know what they expect", well I'll tell you Neil, we expected something not as abject as was served up!

KC's remarks during the Q&A were also interesting. He talked about how the culture of the club was all wrong and how the owner needs to trust his heads of departments. Culture goes all the way to the top, and DB has to take responsibility. If he wants his money to have the effect of creating an established SL club, then he needs to step away from the playing side completely and let his head of rugby be the go between for players and the board. He also needs to judge his head coach based on results and not his ego and a vendetta against Rowley.

He was the one who missed a straightforward tackle on Brierley that let him through for his try.

Yes, undone by pace, as we were for Paterson and Kay's long range tries. (both 'created' by Ben!)

Would like to see how the VR would have viewed that move, well executed but probably obstruction, have a look on you tube

Yes thought that at the time, neutral mate thought
Relatively new ref got conned more than once by Bob and his merry men. Odd to have Mr Hicks running the line such a big game.

I thought Mortimer tried really hard to inject some spark.
Was salivating at thought of 3 NRL players at 6,7,9 you would have expected the coach to want to see what this would bring us?

Well I am hearing Mortimer and Hall are at risk of being dropped ???

I find that a tad bizarre. Perhaps Montyburns can confirm that as utter bobbins



I hope so. I think Hall has been solid.

Where on earth Toulouse came from Alan I have no idea. Maybe the Toronto (

) defeat affected me more than I thought

Hall looked very good for me, looks strong and quite pacy, certainly a better option than Owens or Bailey, however they may be better at backing up as we didn't capitalise on the breaks we made.

I thought Hall had a decent game, getting us out of some tight defensive situations, with skill. At the moment, I also feel that he is the one player who could gain us more than ten metres from penalties. (if we get any, that is!) To axe Mortimer, would seem an odd way of getting Baptiste into the team.

Our right edge is weak. I wouldn't mind Mortimer (@ SO),(Hall @ Centre), And Owens @ FB, and Crooks to miss out. If and when Evans is fit, then Dawson Jones would also miss out. Bergal has done nowt wrong either. We need to get serious who should be in this team. I also think that Dezaria has been ok in the warm ups with some nice offloads,something we failed to do last week. After saying this,expect our coaches to make a big F*** Up once again and maybe just scrape a win. Then again, what do i know?

Charlie knows , Derek.

Ah, But what does a clown know? And no juggling the team around.

I said it last year and I still have the same opinion. Reynolds is not the player we need at 6. I have nothing against him as he works hard but he just doesn’t have the pace, kicking game and overall game management skills.
I believe Jukes should get 5 more games to sort things but if Baptiste is in and he selects Reynolds at 6 over Mortimer/Hutchinson combo this weekend, then I will have to rethink that 5 game allowance.

Jukes/KC - I honestly believe they are working together, everyone witnessed what their respective teams served up before they came together, now we have the dullest least imaginative brand of football played by any team in the RFL - but back to your point they cannot surely leave Mortimer out can they? If on nothing else but last weeks performance Baptiste has to come in, partnered by Hood, and Hutchinson and Mortimer at 6 and 7, anything other than that will proove that the coaches are just being totally pig headed or they simply have not got any vision between them.

Hutchinson,dosen't do it for me, predictable positioning..

If he gets the runners we will tear teams apart, whether we get them/have them remains to be seen

He needs a partner who can adapt to variable positioning. Reynolds is not that partner in my opinion as he doesn’t have the vision and ability to adapt to what’s in front of him. We have that player but our coach didn’t play him..... we also have a player that can marshal the team and be the motivator Higham used to be... but our coach didn’t play him. If he was injured then fair do’s but I’ve not seen that stated anywhere. I’m very big on loyalty and supporting the whole club/team but I’m starting to lose my faith in our coaching staff.

So it is confirmed in my book. Our coach really has lost the plot as I suspected.

Hutchisons speed of thought is miles ahead of his most of his team mates. A Deserving MOM of today. His play for Actons try was just sublime.

We need to find him a proper HB partner that's what we need to do,

I concur, however I believe sadly Baptiste may have picked up an injury that will keep him on the sidelines for a prolonged spell.

Pity that, I thought he showed up particularly well today on his debut.

Its the other shoulder to his already dodgy one too.