Huddersfield

Hepworth

Interesting couple of weeks ahead selection wise with Rooney coming back to full fitness,DM said he like to see him get some action before he returns to the first team,so maybe a reserve game if we have one or perhaps a spot on the bench. Hoy still a couple of weeks away,so out of the equation and Cini has done well at fullback. Then you’ve got an argument for Tate and Senior on the wing,Atkins or Milnes in the halves and who steps in for Horne. We’ll certainly get an insight into Danny’s thinking from his selections.

yorky

atkin or hill can fill in for horn, but that would mean milne at half back?

Hepworth

I’d be tempted to put Hill to 9 and leave Atkin in the halves,we looked so much better like that. We would miss Milnes goal kicking but little else and to be fair to Atkin the kicks he missed were wide out. TotalRL reporting Hoy going to be out
a few more weeks as injury worse than first thought. Rooney will play in the reserves Friday and if he comes through that,back for Salford.

RaoulDuke

Hill plays on the front foot. For a hooker he passes the ball in front of the oncoming players which gets us motoring forward. The difference it makes is great. He has to play Thursday, even if milnes is on the bench so that atkin can spell him.

It shows what we’ve been missing this year.

Hepworth

Difficult to be confident given we’ve failed to back up performances this season,if we have consistent selection apart from Horne I would be expecting the Asi/Atkins link to have solidified a bit,Stimson with a weeks rest I assume would play longer minutes and Tate if selected would be less suspect defensively,all positives if we turn up with the same attitude as we did V Wigan while hopefully our coach will be fuelling the fire with the injustices of last week. Keep the completion rate high and we’d be worthy favourites.
Huddersfield’s pack were abysmal in France and were easily put to bed by a mediocre Catalans. No doubt Robinson will be looking for a response but he’s not exactly fostering a positive mental attitude whinging about the turnaround. They’d put in a couple of improved performances prior to this but Clunes is a big miss even though Frawley has come in on loan. I’d like to think our pack will dominate and given the room to play our backs can capitalise,I’ll go Cas by 10 in a high scoring game.

pirate

Hepworth Beware the RFL revenge penalties and set restarts

I can see nothing more than a defeat under orders from RL HQ

CTID

Hepworth

Reality is if you take Wigan as an example is they don’t get or concede a significant more penalties,six again or cards than we do. The combined stats for all three favoured Wigan by 0.2 per game there are other teams where that difference is even greater and when you consider Wigan are a far better side than us,and would naturally expect to get more simply due to the fact they have more possession that doesn’t imply any serious on field bias. What is significant are the punishments handed out to our players by the disciplinary,now that is distortionate,no consistency whatsoever. I could find quotes from just about every coach in Super League criticising the refereeing standards and lack of consistency including Matt Peet which have been strangely overlooked while DM is getting pilloried. As a club we need to be looking at the discrepancies in the punishments being handed out for very similar offences and making sure our players are being better advised and supported through the disciplinary process.

stuey

Garbage so far.
Never looked like scoring despite all that pressure, and they score on their one and only break, when a man down.

stuey

What a load of crap!!

Hepworth

stuey Sums it up.

Matt

And with that performance I think I’m done attending any more games this season.

stuey

We played well for 5 minutes, we were crap for 75 minutes.

TheFirm

We are going backwards. I’ve held calling out McGuire but he’s just not the coach for us at this point in time.

yorky

probably our worst performance even with better quality players added, spilt balls on 2nd tackle on their line & useless passes, i think Westerman should pack in, he reminds me of when we gave any lynch another contract, a waste of money.

mdean

It is odd, even for the Lawler try, I am sure that wasn’t what we were setting up for.
It wasn’t a good game, Huddersfield to their credit made less mistakes and played better much as it pains me to say.

RaoulDuke

We were back to being poor again. We seem to play an arm wrestle game but then make our only 2 off loads in our own 10 on first play and one results in a knock on. Either players aren’t doing as they are told or they don’t have the ability.

We can play an expansive game but for some reason we play conservative. DM said he wanted to bring back the Classy Cas, then let them play.

Amone played the first 20 mins and last 10. Either he’s injured or I don’t know what’s going on there. We play milnes of the bench to spell Hill but then after him bing on for 1o minutes in the second half we revert to Lawler at 9 and bring Atkin off.

All change for next week. Rooney at 1, Cini back to centre, tate to wing. Robb in to interchange with Hill. Milnes to another club. We still need westy to be a 3rd prop on the field rather than another halfback I’m afraid.

Hoping Qereqere, simbiken and a few others are back but not expecting anything.

Hepworth

Got to be a few changes next week, difficult because I don’t think anyone this week was at the level you’d expect. Rooney to full back the obvious one,which puts Cini back in the centre in front of Woods for me and Tate for senior out wide. Can’t see much else we can do with what we have available. Not long ago we were up to our ears in hookers,but Rimbu’s gone,Horne suspended and Robb out on loan,doesn’t leave many options. As for the halfbacks I’d be ringing Sheffield for Windley back.

Hepworth

Simbiken and Rooney both in the reserves tonight,Tate too,to be honest I thought he’d have been in the first team squad. Hopefully they’ll all come through unscathed we need them.

Hepworth

Rooney in the halves?

Maturecasfan

Good win 18 16.