cant fault our effort, for 50 minutes we gave the best team at 99% full strength a test, a couple of dog poo decisions against us, barba losing the ball from abduls' hit and the softest penalty of the match, at 18-10 to us, considering what the ref let go during the game, got them the lift they needed to get back in the game




unless we get anybodies back, we risk losing 5th spot

I don’t think Tarquin actually exists. I think it is just a computer glitch

5th is of little importance IMO. With Connor, Green and Kelly now added to Shaul, Talanoa, Griffin, Sneyd, Bowden, Manu and Westerman we're screwed. Imagine Saints without Barba, Makinson, Percival, Swift, Lomax, Fages, Walmsley, Amor, Taia, Douglas. That's the scale of the crisis. As already said it's a relief to have secured safety with this to deal with, imagine losing another couple of players and having to go to Headingley or Toronto.

5th is important to us, until we cannot qualify for the semis our season is still alive, we've been told the vast majority of our missing players will be back for round 23 and the super 8s

credit should be given to those players who have kept us in touch of the top 4, to just dismiss that is an insult to those players that have played patched up and kept us up there week in week out!

radford should have moved tuimavave or minichello across to the right and shored up the defence on that side, We had 2 injured players and 2 kids defending our right edge and saints cut it to pieces.

I'm sick of the injuries now. The season has completely gone to pot and I can;t wait until it's over

I didn't see what happened with faraimo but someone near me saw it on the screen and reckons he'll cop another ban

Unfortunately the Uber wouldn’t take me to be KC. Wanted paying up front
Not on TV so can only rely on comments here
Seb has one take , some say pathetic goal line defence and some say we pushed them all the way
Goes to prove the diversity of opinion

I imagine it was a galant defeat

Losing Connor is a body blow
Win the next 2 and we have the faintest chance of Top 4

one more win for us at widnes or wire at home and a loss at wakey for you and the derby will just about be a dead rubber in the ever minute counts era

It's going to be a big ask to make the 4 now but 5 points can go very quickly, we need to keep fighting.

The goal has to be to win our next 2 and you would like to think we will be no worse than 3 points adrift at the split. It goes without saying that we will need to beat Wire when we meet in the 8s, but if we do that it would leave 1 point to make up. With players returning and Warrington having the distraction of the cup that is entirely possible.

Mountain to climb, but I haven't lost hope just yet.

if you beat wakefield and kr beat warrington its defo back on, if other way round it will be all but over

Yet another key player injured in this wretched season. It's amazing that we're still in fifth, credit to the coaching staff and fringe players.

We have to win one of the next two or it's a distinct possibility that we'll go in to the Super 8s seven points behind Warrington with a significantly inferior points difference. As it stands we are likely to face trips to Saints, Warrington and Cas with Wigan coming to the KCom.

Very disappointing after the highs of the last two years but we have to hope that we have much better luck in 2019 with injuries.

Not in any way dismissing what this team have achieved in terrible injury circumstances this year, summed up by the cup defeat at Saints which was magnificent. Losing Connor & Sneyd and with Kelly strapped up though is difficult enough but also if Faraimo gets a ban we are missing 1, 2, 4, and 5 with 3 (Carlos) playing busted. Wakefield are scrapping for the 8s with home advantage so just can't see anything but a heavy defeat. This isn't being negative just realistic - it's great that we're safe and that's a praiseworthy achievement itself given the context.

The potential of this side is strong. In the backs we have Griffin who was exceptional until injury, Connor with an international breakthrough, Carlos all class and playing with a knock, Talanoa top SL try scorer until injury and Faraimo who's settling great in now but just needs to sort his discipline, MoS nominee Albert Kelly and double Lance Todd winner Marc Sneyd. We have a very good squad but just can't them on the pitch.

We had a good dig last night.
Losing our double winning Wembley captain compounded by our horrendous injury woes has done for us I'm afraid.

Yes, although to be fair Taylor I think is taking on the Ellis captaincy mantle.
Shaul
Faraimo
Connor
Tuimavave
Talanoa
Kelly
Sneyd
Taylor
Houghton
Bowden
Manu
Hadley
Westerman

Paea
Minichiello
Green
Griffin

Is a good first choice 17 next year with the likes of Miloudi, Masi, Fash, Downs, Turgut, Lane, Scott, Harris all gaining loads of SL experience this year. Feeling positive already.

Proud of the players last night. The fact they scored 4 tries in the 2nd half whilst we had men out of the line getting treatment just shows the issues we have had all season. Green injuring his back on the bloody sideline! Thought Abdull played well, his passing accuracy and speed is something we missed.

Sounds mad to say it, but at full strength we beat them last night and in the cup

Why? You keep telling us injuries are no excuse.

I thought play had to stop straight away for head/neck injuries, clearly the ruling has now changed.

There was a lot of inconsistency last night. Ruck was managed differently for both sides - an obvious flop by Richardson in the 2nd half goes unpunished and then Lane penalised a few moments later. Every one of their knocks seemed to stop play whereas we had to play on and they took advantage

Some good performances last night from Jansin, Buretta, and the booming left peg of Jordan Abdul, AK super effort, keep going boys it’s been a nightmare season for injuries, all we ask is give it your best shot, and last night they did just that, come on yu ull.

Spot on.

Kelly played himself to a standstill and they played on that towards the end.

What we need is a physio as fit as theirs (he must cover some km`s during a game) and to find out what drink he is pouring down their necks as they were running with as much energy at the end of the game as they were at the beginning.

…… I don't think missing 2 interchanges for more than half the match helped.

Hmmm, this flies right in the face of you continually dismissing/writing the team off as early as 20 minutes into a match and continually stinking the place out with your 'season over' comments and M8s thread.
So you write the players effort off in game, you write off the team in game, you write the team off for the season and yet you say "Not in any way dismissing what this team have achieved", somewhat hypocritical isn't it?

Why can't you get behind the players/team/coach when it counts on game day, why continually write them off pretty much ignoring the effort and how matches and a season have peaks and troughs. you come back and write what you have with no sense of irony whatsoever


So, is our season still over or do you think our season still has a way to go, you know seeing as we are still in with a chance of making the play-offs????

I don't think we have a cat in hell's chance of making the GF, but it doesn't stop me supporting the team, going to matches, leaving at the end of games (not with 15 minutes to go like many last night).

It's called being realistic, but stick to your agenda bumpy, it's all you ever do.

FFS give it a rest with the Mrs B bashing. Why you are still allowed to post on here after numerous warnings, God knows.