He might be labelled as both but again he's better at 9 so why move him from there and leave only one option at 9 (Randell)?

You claim he's better at 9 but that's your opinion, IMO we have a hooker who can play the full 80 (not saying I don't see an impact when a fresh Wood comes on in the second half) but we don't have a half back and I think Wood would have more of an impact at 7 than Hampshire would...

It's all hypothetical anyway, Jowitt will play FB with Hampshire at 7...

I'm sure Wood could do a job at scrum half if needed and I thought he played well when he did it in the game against Wigan. I think he went to Huddersfield with playing half back in mind but they ended up putting him to hooker anyway I think.

BUT, and it's a big BUT, we shouldn't make two positions weaker because of one issue, and more importantly, if Wood is actually a better option that Hampshire, we shouldn't have brought him to the club.
For me Hampshire needs to play now until either Finn proves some outstanding ability and/or fitness or he get's injured, when Wood can then take over.

Dudson, Houston, Handbury and Inu all out for Widnes , some pretty descent players missing for them tonight .
Should have more than enough grunt up front to allow the pivots some room behind them to play a more expansive game and find some gaps .

Heavy rain forecast from 7pm onwards over there. Lovely.

Lloyd White out as well I believe.

Gerrard & Dean out for them as well. Keinhorst gone back to Leeds.

The full side is -

Patty Ah Van
Burke
Cahill
Chamberlain
Chapelhow
Craven
Farnworth
Gilmore
Heremaia
Johnstone
Leuluai
Marsh
Mellor
Olbison
Runciman
Wellington
Walker
Whitely
Wilde

I posted it Wednesday

Rain, it may do but, it wont be a mud bath on the plastic pitch.

Heremia is a great player.

They still have some pretty good players in that team that could cause us some problems. Added to that they now have no pressure on them and will have players keen to impress. If we take them lightly they will hurt us.

We still have enough to beat you comfortably if you play like you did last week.

Hoping for a saints like performance which should give us a comfortable win . All depends which team turns up for us .
The good team will have too much fire power for you .
But if the other turns up it’ll be a nail biter again

And if you play like you have for the majority of the last two seasons we’ll run up cricket score.

They must have a big advantage with 19 in there side!

That’s because it was their full side?

Starting with England and Hirst with Fifita coming off the bench. Much better.

MCB and Danny K miss out.

Miller seems be doing well as the organising half

Well, you currently look comfortably terrible.

First time in weeks we've had a half decent kicking game

What a bloody fantastic try saving tackle from Max Jowitt! Not bad for a lad that cant defend.

Great win!
Out of interest how did Hampshire and Jowitt go?

Happy Days Are Here Again.

Give youth a chance.

Thought Jowitt defended really well and linked up well on occasions.

Hampshire was ok, kicking game needs work but ball movement looks a lot better with him on the field than it has done over the past few weeks and I imagine will only get better with a good run of games.