I agree, i thought Okonobor got involved and was one of the better perofrmers (not a big accolade I know!)

If he did that many then fair enough . Was expecting more in attack from him

Can we change the topic to Shopping list for 2025..

Got a lot of business to do, early days but this recruitment cycle not looking great so far.

Morgan Smiths passing to him didn't really help

Smith threw out a few hospital passes last night.

Massive recruitment for next season owner can't hide behind the loan excuse much longer, McIntosh, Cator, Carlos, Hoy, Lane and Danny retiring will all go hopefully. Need a halfback not two number 9s or a 1 in the halves.

We also need at least one Grimaldi, Swain or Ellis type character that has genuine leadership qualities when out on the field as we still have non of that at present and it shows.

The indiscipline and soft penalties continue. That's what does my head in. They didn't throw the towel in, so that is a positive. But I cannot work out if that was because KR were so poor. A better team may have put a huge score on us.

I thought Ashworth looks a promising signing in patches .

if i was smith ,id be looking around the championship for a 7,someone with a bit of a kicking game.bet theres someone who fits the bill.

Fash out for 10 weeks. Needs ankle surgery

Can see Cator out for a similar if not longer period.

It'll be a team of kids against Wire

With the new regulations regarding quota players, we should be able to pick up a decent 7, and other positions from Nrl reserve grade.
The major worry is our attack structure, it's absolutely atrocious, even a decent 7 would struggle in this current situation.

I guess the "money" got spent on the forwards as we knew we needed to strengthen the pack whilst waiting for Clune to make his decision on whether to sign for us

We are in dire need of a player who can direct and marshall the players as there was very little if any direction on show last night. Whilst some will point to the fact we lost Sutty before kick off then Cator early on followed by the yell and red cards we were utterly abject and looked bereft of just about everything and the half situation is concerning. Lets be honest Rovers weren't great last night either but we were abysmal, they could and should easily have put a huge score on us.

Lewis was the main difference, had that bit of class 3 times.

I think we have accepted we have what we have until Trueman gets back.

Id be happy to give Charles or Harman a game this week.

Charles or Harman couldn't do any worse. Staveley needs to play at 13, move Brown to 9.
Probably Smith will select Hoy at 6,,and move Smith to 9.

I wouldn't play Charles or Harman with the potential of us missing three of our starting forwards . These kids need a platform to play with and the possible line up next week doesn't fill me with any hope of them carrying out that task .
I do get why we should be looking at that situation though !

That's a fair point.

We definitely need to change the pivots, at least Hoy created something yesterday.

Has to be Walker, Hoy, Smith, Brown.

Balmforth on the bench.

I'd give one of them a go against London, we need to be trying something and having a good look at some younger players.

I wouldn't ague with that , but I think until Trueman gets back in the side , Its going to be a tough couple of months .

We have a squad of 40 ? .. And I fully expect us to be using most by the seasons end . And I think here's also the new rule on how many minutes a player can play in a season although I don't think it will be legally enforced by SL . SL will be monitoring players throughout the season and also by the clubs themselves .

KR wernt really good on the night but didnt need to be against what is such a poor FC team.
If they had put their foot down and not missed so many goal kicks it would have been 50 or sixty points/
I keep harping on about our on field indicipline but this coach cant seem to do anything about it.
When you look at our backline last night McIntosh,Scott,Litten and Martin that is so weak and none of them would be anywhere near another S/L clubs 17 London apart.
With no halfbacks,a weak second row and a championship threequater line its little wonder we get rolled over and cant score points.

Something seriously wrong if Balmforth is not in the 17
Like you say we have to try Smith with Hoy and play Brown at nine