I don't think so much...perhaps a little.
Aka was injured much of last season but the team was winning and that carried through to this season.
It's hard to make changes to a winning side.

IMHO we missed Westwood against Saints, but he gave a poor performance against Salford, in what was a poor team performance. I agree with you that all options need assessing, which is something that all coaches should be doing, with a view to the future. Both Akauola and Davis may well merit a shirt for tomorrow, on the back of their performances against HKR (and other games in Davis' case). As far as this season goes, I recon we'll see all three in the starting seventeen at some point, as the remainder of this season rolls out. It'll be interesting to see who gets a deal for 2020 out of Akauola and Westwood, it may be neither.

No he wasn't at all, people keep saying this but he played 25 games last year for us, and got a Ban of 2 games. So that's 27 games he wasn't injured for. This year he just fell out of favour but hopefully he's taken his chance with both hands and be a beast for us this year..

....people keep saying it because he was injured.

The issue with Akauola was he didn't play anything like enough minutes, and when he was on the field he gave away plenty of penalties.

Whether stamina was the issue, or he was injured or just not interested I neither know nor care. Similarly, I don't care whether he is fitter now or just doesn't fancy another four months at Rochdale - if he's now capable of decent minutes and making the kind of impact his physique suggests then the slate is clean and he could yet become a potent addition to the 17.

we were so poor over easter, seemed to be a total different team from the weeks before.... alot of this is to do with lee gaskell being out injured, he is important too us now and misses again today.. hope we get a response from the team after last weekends performances but think wire win by 18+

Yes I rate Gaskell. He adds something. Didn't realise he was out. Could be a tough day for Hudds.

I've only seen Akauola once this year and that was in Atkins' testimonial game. Even in that though he looked much more fired up than in 18. I'd like to see him start on the bench today and I'd give Davies another start over Currie, who I think would benefit from another week's rest.

He has never made a secret that he would be injured until the end of the season.

Yeah i agree with this, Davis has played better than i thought but to be fair i've never really seen him play before us. Loads of energy and a great work rate really like what he brings to the team


Well Currie and Davis made the Squad and Akauola, awesome looking Squad