I think our pack isn’t too far off. We are lightweight in the second row, but if Currie finds his attacking form that would be a positive. BMM should certainly be at least the equivalent of Solomona, but I’m not convinced he has ever been full fit since arriving. J Clark looks to be a machine, but again lightweight. A Waterhouse style 2nd row would make all the difference to our pack.

I think we need to use BMM as Salford did. He started a few games before his rest and I hope it continues. He showed at Salford he can do a lot more minutes than he has at Wire.

Yeah i'd rather start with Hill And Tasi, and have Cooper coming off the bench when Tasi comes off. Then when Hill is rested Cooper will still be on the field, we do seem to lack go forward when they are both off and it seems to be the same for each game where we start to ship points. That's how it seems anyway i could be wrong though?

Bmm is only good 5 yards out and with a small guy in front of him. Too lazy and work shy, Currie since coming back has been very poor as well.

Some of the stats on bmm and few others make interesting reading. Our pack without Cooper and Dc is average.

BMM isn't a true prop. He doesn't do the heavy stuff up the middle. Just the barnstorming run stuff down the right quarter.
In realistic terms he's an impact back rower.

He is capable of doing those big minutes though - he certainly did at Salford. I think Currie & BMM starting back row with Hughes at 13 could work well. Leaving Philbin, Clark, Sita/Tasi plus ANO on the bench. Hughes for all his virtues doesn't quite have the attacking threat for me of a top SL back rower.

I'd agree though, we do need another big bopper in the middle to come off the bench. Teams generally start with their best two props on the field however, so keeping one of Hill or Cooper on the bench to start could hand the opposition an early advantage?

BMM isn't a very good rugby player in my opinion. He's just big.

Realistically Currie needs to ease himself back in slowly and we shouldn't really be expecting top quality performances from him yet.

Exatly. It's a miracle he is back playing. If he can recapture the pre-injury form we have one of the best 2nd rowers in the comp.

He’s still got the brain and the skill, but it would be unfair to expect him to ever have that pre-injury turn of pace again. He can be very creative though and if we ever decide to go with a ball playing loose again I’d like to see what he could do there.

I'd like to see that too. He has sublime hands and vision.

Anyone else getting a bit disillusioned?
Rubbish passes and general lack in leadership skills. I wonder whether he is playing injured as he offloads the ball as soon as he gets it, as if to avoid being tackled.

Either that or he’s fed up of being marked to death and flattened every play. We are easy to coach against, shut down the Austin show and it’s up to Clark to do it all himself.

Clark is having to do the work of a front row on his own and we then have no Clark to do Clark’s job. The rest of the team are playing behind that.

Our pack force and team structures seem to be the problem, not really the individuals.

He did take q lot of contact tonight, and thats common, itd be nice if we actually worked on a plan b to open things up for our centres.

Missing Ratchford something terrible. He takes a lot of the interest in Austin away..

Austin’s wife has put yet more social media posts about missing home so maybe he is unsettled

Was so obvious last night, we are over reliant on Blake without Ratch.

Wonder who will go home first, Austin or Holbrook?

Holbrook is gone at the end of the season for sure

He isn't married.

How would you know that?

His partner then mr pedantic