i'm sure he may, just once or twice, have played 80 minutes before

You're just looking for an argument

.... can't you let a man have a moan and lament the loss of a 'proper hooker' if he wants to?

why didn't you say you wanted a moan? love a moan me. like henry fonda in on golden pond

Great movie.....I am admittedly fast becoming the new Victor Meldrew

yes, i'm with you there. although juan may be leagues ahead of both of us

Nah Juan still has a schoolboy crush on his best-coach-ever idol .....

The only thing I moan about is you moaners

anyway, not that long ago we hammered Wigan without a hooker

Weather might not help us do that though. Rainy game you need quick accurate passing from dummy half. We aren't going to get 30 offloads away successfully in this weather, things need to be a bit simpler.

Would be happy with Sinfield playing a lot of dummy half tonight.

I hope the team all get the right studs on tonight, or whatever they wear nowadays.
I'm getting tired of Burrow & Watkins in particular making half breaks then falling over on our lush turf.
Time for the rain to stop now since all my waterbutts are overflowing.

I'm presuming this is an attempt at what the kids called "Bantz" and you're wanting to get some bites?!

Weather not ideal for our style but we still have a few guys in there who know a thing or two about playing well in the wet. With the GF often a rainy night then perhaps a good reminder/lesson on what to do in wet conditions.

Let's hope Kev has his kicking boots on & Bowen has an off day.
In the conditions I anticipate that the kicking game will be vital.
Lots of lost ball will exercise the ref; was it a knock-on, loose carry or ball steal?
As long as we get consistency it should be immaterial.

Wigan fan in peace , what's the weather update over there , been bouncing down all day here but just stopping now

Can someone check on Tad and Bloodbath? They wouldn't normally miss an opportunity like this.

It pi55ed it down at around 12:30, but it's that persistent fine rain at the moment.

I work by Elland Road just out of the City Centre and it's bouncing down at the moment.

My advice...bring your Cagoule!

My scoundrel days are over.

In other news, lovely sunny day.

Don't do that.

you'll be fine when you enter Gods county.

That's why I posted what I did.

Solution to hooker tonight

Burrow = no
Keinhorst = no
Stevie Ward = no
Sinfield = no
Robbie Ward = no

Cuthbertson = yes?

Hardaker
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Garbutt
Cuthbertson
Peacock
S.Ward
Ablett
Singleton

Burrow
Keinhorst
Achurch
Leuluai

Didn't see that one coming

Cuthbo starting at hooker! He's played there for the knights under Wayne Bennett so guess should be capable.

Big starting pack. Presumably burrow will be off the bench to take over at 9 after 20mins.

It'll probably be a mixture of guys going into dummy half along with him, Sinfield, Hardaker, Ward perhaps. Will have definitely caught Wigan by surprise. They were probably licking their lips at Burrow being on and targeted him in the defence and our forwards having to do more defensive work without a hooker.

Now they're facing Peacock, Garbutt, Cuthbertson and Singleton right from the start all at once. That left field an idea it might turn out to be inspired. If Cuthbertson does do a chunk of dummy half work tonight and plays good then he's surely got to be nailed on for MOS.

he may be named there but sinfield will jump in more often than not

Probably, but defensively having all that beef in the middle looks much better than the "hide Burrow out wide and everyone move in one and get knackered" lineup.