I can't understand why people were raving about him after last week. Must have been watching a different game to me,. Some people see a player making a couple of decent runs and completely forget about all of the errors

He's shocking in an attacking line, the ball gets to him and he just palms it backwards.

I don't think he'll ever be good enough to play full back in this league tbh.

I agree but I would stress these are only rumoured signings. If we can attract a good six and prop from the NRL then add some SL players I'd be happy.

He needs to develop his passing game big time as like you say he gets the ball and our attack just stops.

I thought McKinnon going was going to be a big loss but I didn't realise how much we would miss him.

It's not just his passing, it's his timing into the line, he never seems to get to the ball when he's meant too.

Another thing I noticed about him yesterday was that he spends most of his time in attack around dummy half, there were three or four times when we were on their line and Houghton had to shove him out the way to take control, when he should have been in a position to join the line.

We are missing Mckinnon's ability, but not his attitude.

Great on effort, poor on ability.

's himself on high balls, poor positioning on defence, slow on up take when joining the attacking line.

will make a far better hooker if he can tighten his defence.

Good news, but the bad news is it's Stephen and Reg

unfortunatly this lad wont make a good full back gud quick hands though and is evasive maybe a half back in the making for wigan because tomkins is set for fullback for the forseable future

Pies to recall him due to leulauis injury ?

Depending how long Horne is out for , Horne fullback , Whiting 6. O r Whiting Fullback , Kent in .

There are the options of recalling Russell, recalling Mellor or moving O'Loughlin to stand off. Hopefully it's one of the latter two.

I thought we had him for a month?

Would rather see Shaul there, hes looked good when I've seen him.

It was extended for another month, however who knows what is written in the small print.

mckinnon showed us the value of a good specialist full back. No co-incidence that our downturn in form has been at the same time that mckinnon was obviously unhappy and subsequently left. No doubt russell will develop into a good SL standard player but he isn't a very good FB currently. Let him go back and start missing high kicks at wigan and see how long he lasts in their 1st team

Agree about McKinnon. I'm not enamoured with the idea of Horne there as 1st choice next year. We've had utility players there since Briscoe went - Tony, Byrne, Hall, Whiting, Horne etc, and the difference McKinnon brought was obvious.

Agree 100% about Mckinnon and all those moaners who slagged him off should now realise how very very good he was.

McKinnon has been a massive loss for us, his offense was great and he was top drawer under the high ball, made a couple of dodgy decisions but what top drawer player doesn't!

Was a huge fan of him when he was here, massive loss this season.

No doubt we miss Wade, he's a class act. Horne to FB Whiting/Westy 6.

Yep we really miss wade no doubt but i would rather have whiting at 6.

Given him some stick the last few weeks, but sounded like he was much improved today - catching some tough bombs in difficult conditions. Fair play.

How much longer have we got him ?

Until Wigan want him back really. Which could be soon with Tommy L missing now. Think he's 2 games in to his extra month.