Jury still out ?

Is he carrying an injury ?

Paper thin tackling twice at vital times this evening.

Two tries to 'make up' for it ?

He's not 100% but that will come from games.
I thought Mags could of done better for Neros 2nd aswell though mate and for the 1st i thought the gap between Brett and Sinfield/kirke? was too big so again not 100% his fault imo.
He started the season well and i think he's showing enough early promise to indicate he'll be a real asset.

I think he still looks injured to me.

Now smith is here, we can afford to give him some rest. Monday would be a good chance. I'd like to see Bush get another match under his belt

I honestly don't think you can tell yet as he's not had a settled run due to injuries. Though that's a concern in itself. For a player noted for his defensive play he looked a bit flat footed at times yesterday but then he's probably never really been match sharp so far this year.

Can't believe you have picked out him, considering the shocking defensive attributes of the other side of the pitch.

Hall's defence has looked diabolical this year, and Senior is like a mobile care home on that field. Absolutely shocking.

I was encouraged by his display against crusaders and against cas before going off injured.

He hasn't looked the same player since, shocking for their opening try.

You would have to say jury still out - as he ever recovered from the injury he came over with??

He is what he is, an average NRL player more famous for getting knocked clean out for grabbing balls that anything else.

His defense was inept at times, having said that defending on the same side as McGuire must be a nightmare every week!!

to be fair your centre should be helping your stand off in the defensive line and i didnt see alot of that happening last night

He had a relatively poor game tonight, perhaps he's not 100% fit yet, but I don't think he was the worst offender. Far too early to write him off and I'd expect him to come good. I wonder if Lees return might have unsettled him a bit?

It can't help that he is now playing with his 3rd / 4th winger of the season......we havent got a lot of continuity out there on the right hand side.

I'm more concerned with the fact Senior and Hall look like strangers at the moment over on the left.

Once Ablett is back and you have a right hand side of Ablett, McGuire, Delaney and Smith / Donald and we can have a settled run with that we'll notice the difference i think.

Garbage. People were wetting their pants over him after Matt Diskins testimonial game but I stand by what I said. He's a very poor signing and the recruitment over the last two years has been dreadful.

He was poor last night, but as so many have said, it could be due to the repeated changes at LF and wing, as well as Delaney's own time out, meaning we're repeatedly changing that RHS defence. Hopefully a bit of consistency will fix this.

Good to have the option of Smith to centre once Donald is back though.

Speaking of that, what's the chances of Smith and Donald starting and having Delaney on the bench. He's a big unit and wouldnt do badly defending more centrally. Would also give options of playing him in the pack or in the backs if we needed it......

People on here make me laugh, what did you expect with Delaney?

He isn't any better than what Leeds already had.

Made to look even worse by the awful form of JJB who seems to be doing all the things wrong that he used to do right these days. How many times were Senior and Hall completely isolated from the rest of the team? It was almost like watching England in the WC.

I agree, JJB for me was the Bulls MOM, but I still think Senior looks way off the pace now, and Hall's making last year look like one season wonder.

Can't believe when Smith signed there were actually some silly postings of where would we fit him in when everyone is fit. Christ he is far better than any of our current backline.

hall got little quality ball, he can't do much without it

Nah, clearly that is Halls view a well, he seems to miss the tackling part of the game altogether.

He also dropped the ball on a kick return which i think led to a try that set, he was caught out of position defensively a couple of times.....

Maybe its just a confidence thing at the moment. Got to agree though, Senior isnt playing well at the moment.

It's the defence that was the problem Tad, it was shocking.

As for the ball, he still offered very little threat when he did get it. Unless we include threats against Leeds, considering is pathetic dropped ball resulting in the Bulls try.

fair points, but i would have to ask, who didn't drop a ball last night? seems most of them did

Only if you share out JJB's total.

JJB seems to be consistently dropping the ball every match, for me now there's a couple back I'd leave him out of the Catalans match, playing him every week isn't fixing the problem, hopefully missing a match will refocus him to bring back the form of two years ago.

As for Delaney hopefully the defence was a one off. I really like him in attack though, he seems to draw players in very well and Donald and Smith should score lots from him. I've recently had the bug going round at the moment and that totally knocked my fitness maybe this was the case for Delaney's defence.

Wingers don't ever get a lot of quality ball in any team. They do get chances to finish and Hall fluffed two fairly easy ones by his standards. First half he did pretty well to brake a tackle then instead of running straight over the top of Dave Halley who was flat footed on the try line he swerved inside into defenders. Second half he had the line open again but was caught by what looked like his sock. A guy his size and power (and on last years evidence) should be putting those to bed. As for his defence, well, getting caught infield can be a result of numbers being uneven (understandable in some cases), but chargeing up and missing tackles is all his own work.

He's a quality player and on his day the best winger in the comp.

Better than Roberts, Richards, King & your own Donald?