Joe only playing centre because Jake has a niggle.

Joe seen as a 2nd row all day long.

Jake apparently first choice place kicker followed by Lee Gaskell.

Isn't he left footed?

you would have expected him to take the kicks against bradford no?

every one else seemed to have a go that day! or maybe he had another niggle and didnt want to risk it

yeh fully expect joe wardle to be second row if he gets ahead of mellor, murphy

ferguson long term injured.

mellor or murphy may even slot in at centre tonight!

Expensive night for you guys last night with McGillvary tearing his hamstring, I would imagine is a 2 to 3 month recovery at least, when is Cudjoe due back? BBC mention McIntosh switching to the wing and Grix coming in at fullback.

Gaskell looked like he should get the full time kicking gig from his performance last night. Kicked a couple from out wide that looked really tricky.

Yep 12 weeks I heard. Cudjoe will miss first 4-5 games. McGillvary and Cudjoe knocking on a bit now so need to look after themselves more. McIntosh and Senior twins options for wing. Grix seen as a coach but could play if required.
Pauli Pauli out for you lot but not sure how bad his injury is.

Jake Wardle at centre
One of the Senior twins on the wing.

It's all good - then big players back for the meaty end of the season

Heard Jake Wardle will be our place kicker with Gaskell as back up.

Not d me, glad we lost tbf cause them pussycats will get so big headed and just feel embarrassed when we slap them during the season

It was us who pointed out to you that friendlies are meaningless? Bring it on as they say.

It's not clever love it's the truth, no such club has ever existed in SL FACT.

Correct - so again no such club as Wakefield Wildcats - do I need to spell it out?

thought we went quite well lastnight, had to do alot of defending due to childs having one of those games against us but we stood up well, wildcats only really scored down the wings when mcgillvary and uate went off.

considering we only went down by 4 points whilst playing with 12 men for 20 minutes it wasnt that bad!

gaskell outshone frawley again, amazing what a player can so when hes given confidence and allowed to play which he could do with brough about

had to laugh when brough put that forward pass across to johnstone, brough has never had that pass in his game! he still has the kicking game though... see how they didnt use him for goal kicks!!!! not surprised with his record past few years but hampshire no better.

big blow losing mcgillvary now for a period of time, i think we should stick murphy back to the wing, hes mr consistent and will do the job well. its a concern now as you could see without mcgillvary on the wing we were exposed, seniors are decent prospects but will be targeted and youngsters cant play week on week out at top level.

mcintosh looks good coming into the line and done ok at full back in the two warm up games.

uate is a real character, can see that on the field !

dont know when cudjoe will be back, maybe sometime end of feb.

grix wont play full back. mcintosh will stay there. we still have options for the wing, for me id put murphy back there, he can bring the ball back strong like jerry

certainly gets my vote!!

baffled with woolford saying jake wardle will kick... will see if he has changed his mind after lastnight

erm havent you learnt anything form the past few seasons, we cant afford another slow start to the season!!!

wardle and senior would be just too inexperienced for the job, louis was caught out lastnight when he replaced jerry

murphy would settle the ship for me

Grix isn't registered so won't play, Jake will be 1st choice kicker if he's fit for round 1 with Gasky backup and Gasky and Frawls as the general play kickers with hookers as backup

No, I would expect the coaches to use that game how it was intended, to try stuff out since the outcome wasn’t important.

All this talk about shifting players around just baffles me. Folk moan if youngsters don’t get a game, then talk about switching someone who has bulked up and trained as a second row to go in the wing instead




Trust the young players to play.
If Murphy is switched that’s non first choice players playing in two positions instead of just one.

well will be interesting to see who takes the goal kicks v salford

come the end of the season id have a bet gaskell will kick more goals than jake wardle

innes senior to play 12 games straight?? thats a huge ask for a youngster, even woolford says that its hard to do that, his brother louis wasnt up to the task lastnight at wakefield up against johnstone... salford will be targeting that wing like mad next friday, least they have time to prepare for it

Wonder if we might see a wardle brother centre/wing partnership until Jerry is back fit?

Fair doos you gave it a good shot but let’s be honest you were only four points down because Hampshire couldn’t hit a barn door on the night and your guy was inspired. You were beaten by two tries and that’s the stat that counts. Also your last one was on the 79th minute.

You do know there are no middle 8 play off's this season.

To be fair to the young lad there are not many wingers in SL that TJ would not do that to.

Thought you guys looked good in spells, lacked a bit of go forward in certain periods of the game, Seb seemed to liven you up when he came on, put on some good plays to open us up near our line don`t think you will struggle this season.