We go again?

Interesting game this one now

Walker
Briscoe Newman Sutcliffe Handley
Myler Gale
Seumanufagai Dwyer Prior
Ward Martin
Smith

Mellor Donaldson Oledzki Cuthbertson

Looked very good at Catalan. Sezer looked top class. Very tough game which I dont have much confidence in us winning given theyve been a bogey side

I didn't take one positive from the Hull game.

Should we rush Ava back?

Ava said he could have played today but didn’t want to push it. Hopefully Hurrell isn’t too bad and maybe Wards cheek.

Lui pick up an injury or you Wanting him dropped?

I'd rather start with Myler at hooker Dwyer on bench and McClelland and Gale halves if Lui has an injury but I wouldn't be dropping someone after round 1.

drop dwyer play myler at 9.

If today proved anything (even though it should have been evident beforehand) is that 2 lightweight 2nd rowers on the bench is always a bad idea and should NEVER be repeated

Agars tried out the 2 backrowers on the bench many times last year too. Didnt work then either so why the fk think its going to work now.

Walker
Newman
Sutcliffe
Hurrell
Handley
Lui
Gale
Ava
Dwyer
Prior

Ward
Martin
Smith


Oledzki
Myler
Mellor
Cuthbertson

Surely you can't take prior out he was the only positive out of today's game. And Martin must have impressed to get on team sheet twice

Surely hurrell can’t play if he failed his head assessment?

Drop Dwyer for Myler and put Briscoe in for Hurrell. Holroyd for Donaldson, bring back Ava.

Meant to put Prior not Martin.

1. Walker
2. Briscoe
3. Newman
4. Sutcliffe
5. Handley
6. McLelland
7. Gale
8. Seumanufagai
9. Myler
10. Prior
11. Ward
12. Martin
13. Smith

14. Dwyer
15. Oledzki
16. Cuthbertson
17. Mellor

I would like to see Holroyd given a shot soon too which might happen if Ward is injured.

Any update on Corey Johnson? I'd bring him in if fit with Dwyer on bench. Also, Evan's in for Handley but it will never happen.

Walker
Handley
Newman
Sutty
L.Briscoe
Gale
Mclellend
Prior
Myler
Ava
Martin
Ward
C.Smith

Dwyer
Cuthbo
Holdroyd
Oledszki

May only be round 1 but that was pathetic mske changesso the message is clear that poor performance will result in getting dropped where possible.

A strategy that surely relies on there being any kind of strength in depth to the squad?

We do need more depth and better quality in the starting 13.
Holdroyd will be better than Donaldson at prop Mcllellend cant be any worse than Lui & Ava was missed yesterday.

While not defending the performance yesterday (which for the record I thought was a marked improvement on last year for the first 15/20 mins actually before they got bullied and fell apart) you've surely got to let your first choice starting line up have a bit of a run of games before you start chopping and changing (aside from the enforced changes such as Hurrell). That Hull side was a bit of an unknown quantity yesterday. Most people expected us to be second best in the pack and we were. The other clubs will have been watching to get a gauge of where Hull are at. I actually felt we were a bit unlucky in the first half. Thought the first try should have gone up to the video ref for obstruction, wasn't at all convinced by Hick's decision on their second and the third was a great move on their part. Suddenly after a decent start we're on the back-foot, weather turned e and the game and the confidence were gone. I'd like to see how we go in the next few before starting to chop the team up. Week 1 is far too early to decide the 13 are terrible and changing everything in my opinion.

It's clear after the last two season's we've miles to go yet. For me all we can hope for is an improvement and seeing things moving in the right direction (which I'd have thought we can all agree has definitely been happening). If the overall league quality is as poor as it was last year we could sneak into the play-offs but there seems to be a lot of people with pretty short memories who think one or two signings are going to make us compete at the top.

Never in a month of Sundays would he drop Lui.

Walker
Briscoe
Newman
Hurrell/Evans
Handley
Lui
Gale
Ava
Myler
Prior
Martin
Ward
Smith

Dwyer/McLelland
Holdroyd
Oledzki
Mellor

You don't change your starting 6 after one game.Lui can play a lot better than he did yesterday.One of the worst players on the field for mine was Martin.

Think is though, Lui was really poor in the preseason games also.

I agree on Martin, but he did make a lot of tackles.

Dwyer should be nowhere near the team based on that defensive effort yesterday.

Weren't there some rumours of some discontent with Lui over the close season? Hoping it was just a bad day at the office. Felt like Dwyer's predictable unpredictability yesterday was really jarring with Gale's attempts to bring some cohesion and control to the end of the sets. Was surprised it took another 10 mins or so after half time for him to swap him out for Myler. I can see Myler doing a really solid job at hooker alongside Gale and Lui with Dwyer being thrown on for impact - at least until Leeming is available. Do we have an eta on him?