Leeming was my Rhinos MoM onThursday so why move him from hooker? We need to provide game time for young forwards on a rotational basis due to lack of other opportunities so Holroyd/Gannon on bench makes sense. We will just have to cope with half back deficiencies this year. Seems to be ideal opportunity to start preparing for 2022 now rather than getting hung up on results this year.

....Dwyers performance last night
Team being more settled in the 2nd half (when Leeming was at 6)
Limited options in the halves
Hurrell struggling to break even on his pros and cons

They're my reasons anyway.

I'd like to see us sign a couple of props for next season. Our starting pack could already be:
Oledzki Leeming Holroyd
Gannon Tetevano
Prior

Just need some rotation, rather than making do with 2nd rowers on bench.

I guess they think the new rules have sped the game up and they need more athletic players, but I'd rather tire out opposing defenses with battering rams.

Yet again we have many supporters so keen to rest our best players. Rest them for what? If we rest our best players we won’t win games, if we don’t win games we won’t make the play offs.

Tend to agree in this Harry needs game time not more time on the sidelines

gannon showed more promise than walters who looks like a young morley without the speed or aggression

said this for a while only need 1 or 2 props out and look very light

Talking of resilience shown last night, Agar has to show tonnes of it putting up with Peter smiths repeating of questions already been asked on these zoom calls and dealing with his turgid style. How Agar refrains from smashing his laptop or at the very least putting Smith on mute I don't know.

I don't think playing Harry twice in three days after such a bad injury is wise, asking for re-injury.

Furthermore, if we play a full side on Sun and then lose, we are then stuck with a busted side trying to win there 3rd match in 8 days whereas we are good enough to rest a couple who require it so that we have a more refreshed side for Cas too. I would only be resting Prior and Newman that being said. Constantly overplaying players will not bring success either.

That is 4 props in the starting pack? You also want two on rotation from the bench? That is crazy, firstly I don’t think there are enough quality props about to do it and secondly you do need some balance to your pack. Tetevano is simply not suited to play out wide as a back row. He is an international and NRL grand final winning prop, so play him at prop. If you class 13 as a middle we have Mik, Zane, prior, Holroyd, king and C Smith. Maybe we need another prop but for me it is a maybe, if somebody became available not a we must go out and sign another prop as our main priority.

Isn’t that the same for any club?

Take dudson and Kasiano out of Catalans and they look a bit light
Take walmsley and Lees out of Saints they look a bit light
Take hill and Cooper out of Warrington they look a bit light

We can’t have 10 props in the squad who are all decent players because they will all want to play. If we need some back up we need to look at some younger development players who get a couple of games a season if we get an injury. Not spending loads of cap on players who might only play if we have a couple of props out.

Totally agree its all about balance. I'm comfortable with our props now plus Thompson can fill in. I would replace Thompson when he is off contract with an out out prop.

Is it true that Mellor has done his MCL?

He confirmed it on his Instagram he's done for this season. Which is a shame, he's been very consistent last month or so as well I like Mellor as a back rower does his job might not look flashy every week but is consistent and strong player for me.

We shouldn't have signed him in the first place and gone for that all-out prop IMO. We got seduced because he was available and cheap.

I was literally thinking how much improved he's been over the last month or so and then he popped the knee.

Myler
Briscoe
Newman
Hurrell
Handley

Sutcliffe
Gale

Oledzki
Leeming
Tetevano
Gannon
Martin
Prior

Dwyer
King
Holroyd
Smith

suppose it doesn't help that all the 2nd rows are bang average and expect more from the other 3 and there's only been prior not missing significantly
hopefully bentley will make a difference

Is there no disciplinary hearing before tomorrow’s match?

Yes. Mamo and Myler both cleared to play. Only Wynne charged from all games.

I`m sure I spotted Mamo throwing a punch.
Myler didn`t do anything yet again but got binned.
4-6 games for Wynne possibly.

He's on a grade B charge which is what 1 or 2 games ? Feels about right.

At the risk of derailing the thread. It is one of those strange ones! If it was committed by someone defending it would be classed as more severe. Now is that saying that a defender has time to alter his tackling technique where as a player running with the ball only has one free arm to use as a bumper. To me the use of the forearm should be dealt with in the same way.I think on this occasion it was definitely premeditated act.

George Williams to make his debut against us tonight, let’s hope it’s a debut to forget

I think he's pretty lucky tbh, i thought it was a bad one that could have caused serious injury.