Sutcliffe looked great, think it was Singleton's worst performance so far, but then again he played far more minutes and was given much more of the workload compared to the last few weeks. Keinhorst I'm not sure will make it at Leeds while Minns is more naturally a winger than a centre.

Of all the players missing (Watkins, Moon, McGuire, Leuluai, Jones-Buchanan, Sinfield, Ward, Delaney and Bailey) I suspect only McGuire & Ward would not have had a significant strengthening effect on the side.

That said, it's good to see we now have (in Liam Sutcliffe & Stevie Ward) replacements in place for Sinfield & McGuire when they do go. I suspect Burrow will prove much harder to replace.

As for League position, our game against Wire in two weeks now looks crucial as does the final game against Wigan. You boys keep it together and we could be there to hand you the LLS in September.

If Grix is moved from fullback it will be noticed immediately and not in a good way.

Murph is solid but he simply doesn't organise our defence as well, isn't as good a ball player

Grix is the best fullback we have, Broughton isn't an improvement over him either.

I agree, personally i wouldn't sign Broughton. We aren't short of wingers and he isn't better than either of our two starters. The cap money would be better spent elsewhere ie half back where we really need someone to help out Brough.

you are assuming we are keeping our two "starters".

Of course I'm assuming that but then again so is everyone else. Given the choice I'd keep Grix, Murphy, Mcgillevary as our back three. If one leaves then replace them but i wouldn't bring in Broughton to replace any of them if the option is to keep them. I'd be disapointed to see either Mcgillevary or Murphy go and I think we would struggle to replace Grix without paying money that would be better spent elsewhere in the team. The likes of Tomkins, Hodgson etc won't come cheap.

id like to see next season

murphy FB
mcgillvary wing
broughton wing

and bailey at loose



with ferres and chan..taai on the bench. and still have other options with lawrence etc