Agree about Brough, although I wasn't one of the ones that blamed our slump on him coming into the side.

I'm hoping NB is going to keep Grix at fullback and not play Hodgson, Grix has been playing very well.

Hope he brings back Mason for Horne, Fa'alogo for Patrick (Only due to injury, otherwise I'd replace him with finnigan) and Robinson for Drew.

EDIT: Also Jammer for Lawrence.

yep... d hodgson is shocking in defence, never backs himself when theres a gap, lost his pace, poor under the bomb.

He does however play to his limitations and prevents the likeleyhood of beaten pushed into touch by coming inside. He also runs the ball out very strongly indefence and could teach a lot of wingers how to finish. Hall of Leeds being a prime example who ought to have lots more tries.

Lets give credit where it's due.

Methinks there's an awful lot of sarcasm being missed in this thread!

Hodgson is not shocking in defence. compare the following stas for this season of our wingers tackle completion rate against those of other highly rated wingers

tackle success %

Leroy Cudjoe 96%
David Hodgson 94%
Darrel Goulding 89%
Tom Briscoe 86%
Ryan Hall 83%
Chris Riley 81%
Peter Fox 80%

and he also happens to be one of the best FINISHERS in super league, i think i've mentioned that before though