Dangerous contact at the weekend.

i dont recall having seen anything.

dudson has got a game for the chickenwing on king and also a caution for kicking out early on, did someone on here mention that on friday ?

i've just ran through the recording, its for a marginally late hit on a passer, thats offence of the month currently.

Quite (un) surprisingly neither the hull player who did the cannonball tackle and got sinbinned, and sam powell who didn't get pinged for the same, got more than a caution.

As a Hull fan I’m surprised too.

For the same offence:
Last week Hull’s Brad Fash got a one match ban.
This week Jack Brown got sin binned and Wigan got a penalty. No ban
Wigan’s Sam Powell didn’t get sin binned, no penalty was awarded in the match. No ban.

????

With Hughes suspended it could be a chance to put King in the second row and play Inglis and Mamo at centre. Thewlis or Ratchford at full back depending upon fitness / whether Austin is off the naughty step. Charnley and Lineham on the wings.

Leave King where he is. He’s the form player in the league. Put Davis there or Rob Butler.

Surely Mamo to be made captain

Ratch or Widdop for me, but Mamo for his post-game interviews alone.

Davis and Butler are not suitable for playing wide second row.
We are short in this position.

Yet another decision by this committee that appears to over penalise our club. Quite how some of the cannonball type tackles were not penalised further is beyond my comprehension. One game for a chicken wing. Me thinks it’s about time we started appealing these decisions

I would love it if he put king in the second row. We actually looked a decent attacking side(yes,really!)last season when we were forced to play him and currie in the second row. That has the potential to be the best second row in the league.

I would anticipate Philbin or JClarke to play at second row, since we have loaned out Robson. We shouldn’t be moving King from Centre, he’s in red hot form at the minute and should be playing in his preferred position.

I agree Smiffy and I could also put up with King at SR for a game, or two if we fancy a freshening up/keep everyone on their toes. It keeps things fairly well balanced and whilst he might be LTS's "form player" it's not an unusual interchange or like we are shuffling the whole side to accommodate it, or suggesting King to Prop or FB

expect robson to get called back.

It's a weird one, you would expect just to slot another backrower in (longstaff and wrench have gone out on loan as well haven't they) but past history would suggest the king getting moved as price does his 3 positional changes to sort one problem, thang.

Davis could easily play there for one game.

That particular "Chicken Wing" last weekend was horrible. One game is definitely wrong.

I'm not sure that Price's penchant for multiple moves can be classed as a totally bad "thang" here.

Even with Ashton out we've a good selection headache across our backline, particularly if Ratchford is fit and if Austin and Lineham are off the naughty step. Added to good performances from Mamo (last year's fall guy), Thewlis and Inglis would it be that daft to move King to SR?

I agree with Moe we'd be pretty dynamic. I know teams need someone to do the dirty stuff and it might be Hughes, but there's been plenty of times we've watched him run blind alley lines

King and Currie in the second row is the best we have in terms of a second row IMO. I would be happy to see that and also happy to see King stay in centres as he is going well. We don't have many options in second row, longstaff of the youngsters looks good but probably better to put Jason Clark or Matt Davis there for one match. Second row is something I think Powell will want to sort next season, our right edge is poor because most moves that way end with second row driving in and being tackled.

Let's be fair on this one before Price gets another bashing.

With very small squads there is always a shortage somewhere and this weakness was obvious at the start of the season ... as we have a surplus of proppy/loose forward types & added to them.
With no reserves you have to lend players out.
Second Row (as played in modern game) is so much like centre. Hughes and Currie have spent time there.
I personally don't think any of our forwards have the passing skills to play wide SR.
So who can move in one position towards the middle of the field ... King, Inglis, Ratchford, Austin ??

Don't get me wrong, if it was replacing currie, on the left side, I'd probably be reluctant but ok with it.

But like I was unhappy moving our current dream team, form left centre and disrupting our left side attack which has been pretty good so far to accommodate inglis, im unhappy switching our form left side centre to right side second row.

Unless someone can assure me we'll get something akin to the 2nd coming of Gordon Tallis.

Stick one of us forwards there

And, might I remind people, a lot of bods were calling him rotten for his performance on the right side last week

Anyway, Robson will get recalled and picked there, probably

Robson straight in to Second row for me and for christ sake leave King in the bleedin centres, sick of hearing lets put him at second row......lets not.
Austin can miss out again for me, he's basically just a body in the line. Ratchford back in the halves if fit and re-call Robson and put in in Hughes place.

Austin 2nd row, he is not a small guy?

That would be my guess. All the younger players coming through will be told where they are in the pecking order and what they need to do to get to the next level so I would imagine Robson would be expected to get the nod. The only fly in the ointment is that it is only 1 game and would disrupt Widnes.