With a Bradford pack likely to include, Lynch, Burgess, Newton, Mensies, Langly, Morrison with Worrincy and Scruton to back them up. Plus Semi and Nero in the backs we cannot afford to go with all our little guys :

If we have Drew, Obst, Rooney,Brough, Latu and Grix all playing then I just do not see how we can expect our guys to hold them.

That is why Winterstein could be a good pick. He seemed pretty sharp in defence when i saw him the other week. Could be a break out game for him.

Halley, jeffries, deacon, rinaldi are not exactly big though, and with a pack like bibey, obst, wilkes, snitch fergerson jd, stosic korki dre and latu i think we can match thier pack.

Moore still not, in yet not injured. An explanation would be nice.

He has been dropped simple as

Not playing well enough at the mo. He's been through a lot and has done well to get back but at the mo we have better performers than Richie.

One of the better players in his last first team game.

dropped for dropping someone

seem to have a couple of players with panda eyes who hadnt played for 2 weeks against celtic

Rubbish.

Now I don't know why Moore has been dropped but the above is clearly not the case.

To be fair 100% or not they will still run at him.

he chinned mr wilkes

Well I had heard that but I don't know that to be true. What I do know is that the Wilkes explanation is more plausible than him being dropped for being out of form.

Sam would have to be miss out for me his tackling isnt up to scratch and is a target week in week out, then again JD seems to only tackle by puttin his arm out and giving the knee problem i'd pick pitts and latu and see what winterstein is made of.

Sams tackling ain't upto scratch? That's gotta be a joke right?

Yeah actually i must be i just looked at his stats compared to latu's n drews, and he beats them hands down tackles, missed tackles better than both, must just be an easy person to point finger at it seems on a match a to fall of the big fella's, but 'll hold my hands up im wrong

To be fair he does get targeted like u said but plays ten times better when he has a proper hooker to interchange with. Like last week.

He just looks weaker beacause they target him.
When Giants and Wigan targetted our middle defenders they looked weak too. It needs strength in numbers and from a height point of view people like Hock or Crabtree are obviously going to have a better chance of getting the ball away (or even striding over him) but on a one on one Sam tackles way above his weight. No doubt.

Thing is with sam obst, teams see him as our tallisman to some extent - He's useful in attack and hes one of our smallest guys - put those two into a formula and you get a ' spot ' ....and that what sides do, they spot sam obst and run at him all afternoon - In theory sam should make very few tackles, and he certainly shouldnt be the first man into a tackle - he defends between the bigger guys who SHOULD be stepping fwd and making the initial contact and taking the energy out of the collision instead of sam doing it.

Why would you need to look at stats? Anyone can tell that Sam's tackling is far superior to Drew's.

Funny you should mention that. I read someone else' post a little while ago on JD. When you take into account he has been carrying an injury for a while his stats arent too bad.
JD 15 Games
Total Tackles 452 9th in SL AVG 30/Match
Missed Tackles 26 Approx 6%
Carries 202
Meters 1275
Avg per game 85 meters
Tackles Busts 54 3rd in SL

Cant be bothered to go thru the rest but they are not bad for someone on one leg

I would go with that, that is a very good line up. Shame big frank is missing out again but you cant drop JD or snitch or Fergie. Bizarre comments saying drop Latu. He speeds the play up without him it would be pedestrian and one pace.

Yea get this game out of they way, get JD's op done ready for final push for play off's.

, God help the opposition when JD fully fit ay Con

Anybody else heard about Atkins & Martin?
It said on Ridings Fm, that the team have traveled without them


So with JD not 100% and Gleeson not 100%, whos going to go into centre?

They've had an argument over the effectiveness of Martin's one kicking option vs the one time Atkins passed.

I'm as much concerned that we've set off already. Expecting traffic issues? It is not snowing up at Odsal I hope.

traveled without them, they are only going to bradford