Interesting to see Padders has yet to comment on this topic...

Lets face it the Doncaster Game the forwards laid a platform that anybody could have had a field-day at Half back , Bridge however took the chance and excelled.

Looking at the Widnes game it was the same and GOB took the game to them.

We need a stable forwards pack who can dominate and leave room for our halves to get into the game.....

I would play Bridge at 6 next week if he can keep this form or fitness

Is this Rubber Duckie character a real person, or just somebody's idea of a joke, knowing full well that 95% of what he posts just has people tearing their hair out in frustration, or just cringing in the sheer idiocy of it all??

I mean, what the fook is this 'smell the custard' thing that he keeps mentioning??.....'Smell the coffee' I've heard of, 'smell the custard'??.....

Have some variety in your life Dita.
I know its smell the coffee but James Stannage got up the noses of 95% of his listeners too and used the phrase smell the custard.
A very popular show he had. Got loads of messages and got me through evenings shifts. Perhaps I should just not raise issues to highlight debate and imagination in your return posts and just follow the party line....well played wire....hard luck wire....good luck wire....yawn..zzzz

Stannage was a muppet. All he did was attention seek and he craved controversy, and make jokes about tragedies. Why do you think he's no longer on proper radio and he's got online radio instead? Because there are no restrictions for him to spout the bile he's been doing for years.

The only decent thing about him is that he hates Pete Price almost as much as I do.

It was only Doncaster

I suggest we discuss this when Bridge has ripped Wigan Saints and Leeds apart and is playing at 6 for England. Until then it's best left alone.

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

I used to enjoy Stannage's football phone in on Piccadilly 1152 in the 1990s.

He used to have this bloke ring up called Paul Nolan who had the thickest Manchester accent ever but hated United with a passion, I think first he supported Arsenal then he converted to supporting Leeds. He could run rings round Stannage.

Problem was when he was talking about issues other than football Stannage was just a rentagob who tried too hard to shock through being offensive and thought he was cool by being controversial. I think the internet killed Stannage because messageboards took away his football audience.

It was a final court case that Piccadilly finally sacked him.
His show was good and still full of people who found a new media...texting in.
I think Stannage kept banning Nolan and still kept letting him back on I recall.
It did get a bit stale at the end though....he became obsessed with the illuminati every night.

Happy nights.

Would appear that Bridgey will be revisiting the scene of one of his finest 80mins in a Wire jersey in the self-same position ............. TS all but confirmed Chris will start again at Bradford at half-back and the jersey is his to lose at the minute.

This particular pocket of the internets gonna be chocka block with "Bridge - I told you so" posts of one type or another.

I hope not the other because I'll not...
I'll let Bridge take bragging rights if he earns them.
Although it was Doncaster, Bridge still put on the most satisfying display we've had at hb this season.

How strange. Was just thinking about James yesterday. We had him on BBC Radio Tees way before he went to Piccadilly, he got sacked from there too.

I'm sure you heard "smell the custard" then tees?

As our first choice half backs are injured I don't think there is any other choice bar Monaghan or Currie at 6 which would be pushing it. I suspect it will be almost the same team as v Doncaster but with Monas in for Dwyer and Harrison possibly in for Riley. Hope Penny gets a shot again against SL opposition.

Like I hinted on..TS said (guardian) it's unlikely Bridge will continue at hb after Bradford.
TS has track record of not rewarding form.

Bridge has added a dynamic go forward. But now we lack a presence along side him.
GOB is out of depth and looks like a spare part.
I'd go with Ratchford and Bridge in the halves.....
These two together might paper over or help ofset what is the bigger problem
And here I say this again for the umpteenth time......!

WE NEED TO BUY QUALITY PROP!

The backs cannot work wonders behind a pack that is rarely on top.

Asotasi is lazy and although England wants it...he is a crock.

I would also like to see Bridge with Ratch, but I still think this won't be enough. Bridge seems to be in some good form right now, but we conceded 3 penalties for crossing today and (again) I don't think our kicking game was up to much.

I agree on the prop front. Hill can be almost a one man pack sometimes, but he can't bear the full weight of our go forward every single week.

+1

Just wait until the NRL come knocking on Hills agents door, you think we're screwed now just wait till that happens.

Hang on, hang on. At the start of the season weren't we bemoaning the fact that we had a trojan-warrior like set of forwards who were dominating the opposition, defending for their lives but the backs had no penetration.

Are we now saying, actually we look ok in the backs but the forwards are sh*te, whereas before the forwards were great but the backs and halves were sh*te?

Perhaps the truth is that the backs, forwards and halves haven't collectively performed to their capability in one single match this season - possible exception of Good Friday, Widnes performance not withstanding, when we saw the fruits.

We look crap everywhere bar a small core of guys.

Maybe is a physiological thing...

I mean the only game this season where our team manned up was perhaps the one game they went into it thinking we are gonna get beat anyway so let's just not worry and just play, was against leeds.

We didn't do too bad against Hudds either.

I've been thinking about this for a while. Hill s truly world class and I think we'd have a tough time keeping the NRL at bay if we were champions, let alone the way we're headed.

This worries me, as you say he is world class and if we lose him we will really struggle. I am depressed now