But Donaldson won’t play the same role Smith would have done. He will do the JJB job. Smith would have done the one Sutcliffe is taking the place off.

Wouldnt of guessed that pack if i had ten go's. Dissapointed Cam Smith isnt in the 17, lad deserved his chance imo. Hopfuly Furners got it right, cant wait.

Sutcliffe must have it written in his contract that he plays every week. Terrible decision.

Guess we have to trust that Turner, as a second row, has seen something in Sutcliffe that us mere mortals haven't. In respect of Merrin it may be that the reduction in interchanges means the role of the prop is closer to that of the rest of the pack so starting position is largely immaterial?

Oh dear, this isn’t going well. Our forwards are getting run over and we are losing every collision, leading to a series of mistakes.

We need to front up much more, and show a bit more grit.

No improvement at all so far.

We've been hit by two terrible knock-on calls (Merein and Hurrell) which both should have been penalties, but we're getting done in the middle with Ward and Parcell particularly losing every collision. They'll also attack Watkins and Sutcliffe all day becauae Kallum unfortunately doesn't look ready. Konrad s good though.

Tacklings been off but Lolohea has been bounced off a few times going too high.

Front row way too lightweight, as we all know.

Well that was dreadful

Too early in the season and the game to worry too much, but we look like a team of strangers and Wire look settled as a unit. Letting them take the lead when they were a man down didn't bode well. Lets hope Furner can engineer a fight back ahead of the second half

First 10 minutes I thought was okay, but they're a good side who have had far longer to gel and it really shows. The fact we made nothing of the sin bin is most disappointing.

Pretty much as expected. Getting rolled down the middle and then giving it to the backs to bring us out of yardage, who are then getting hammered.
Most annoyed that Wire are playing second phase successfully against us - using the ball is our only way forward if we can’t match physically, and we’re even getting beaten at that!
All is not lost yet, but we’re going to have to do something different 2nd half to avoid an embarrassing scoreline.

Parcell must want off - 2 of the tries down to him plus he cant get to the PTB. Stevie Ward is sadly not a SL player on this

Not a SL player??? That's funniest thing I've seen this year, admittedly it's only Feb.

As poor as we’ve been, how we’re getting pinged and Warrington aren’t at the play the ball is beyond me.

Zero line speed in defence. Our tackle technique is very poor, we are putting bodies into tackles without either being effective at stopping the momentum or the offloads.

With the ball we look poor, no forward momentum therefore the halves look bad and the backs don’t get any quality ball.

Without some punch in the front row, it’s hard to see where this improves against the better teams

Wouldn't go as far as "not a SL player", but we're looking a lot better with James Blddy Donaldson at 13, so that's not great for Stevie.

Christ this is frustrating to watch.

Still sure he’s not a SL player David?

There’s been much worse players in Leeds jerseys tonight than Stevie Ward.

At least we’re ahead of Wigan in the table!

Good finish there though. Don't tgink he has a future in the middle, would have him at 2nd row with Merrin 13 and a proper prop. Hurrell and, surprisingly, Donaldson the two who've come out of this shambles best.

You have sacred cows who can do no wrong Ward is one of them watch the game not what you want the game to watch

Duncan First half he was totally dominated not sure what more he brought in the 2nd

Well Donaldson looked the best of the signings probably Hurrell was hindered by knee injury. The 3 big signings all look tubsters.

Very poor. Still can’t get much worse