Healthy competition is great, when you have it in abundance you simply have to perform to keep the shirt. Burns did enough at Whitehaven to warrant his place yesterday granted, the question for the coach worth his salt is did Burns do enough to keep hold of it for another week?

Ridyard was in fine form prior to being 'dropped' - Does he deserve a chance again?

It is probably irrelevant as we know the answer.

i don't think it's something that should be reviewed on a match by match basis, the coach needs to decide what his best half back pairing will be and stick to it. In my opinion Drinkwater would be first choice, with little to choose between the other 3.

Have to feel a bit disappointed with that performance however there are positives to take out of it when you think about it. Last week at Whitehaven our defence was woeful, a side even slightly better could have scored at least 4 more trys than Haven the gaps we had in our line. After that game I can understand if Jukes spent all last week focused on a solid defence & that's what we had. Defence has been our weakness this season but yesterday we defended solidly against a Fev side with a lot of go forward. Fortunately Fev didn't seem to have much to offer in attack once they got within 10 m as we are very bad at defending that & conceded yet another try from dummy half 5 m out and even more annoyingly conceded a try after we'd eased off thinking the game was won, which we really need to stop doing. Our attacking play was poor though, however with key players going off injured it's understandable why instead we'd opt to shore it up defensively and not try anything too flamboyant & that worked. Hopefully next week we'll see some good attacking play back again which we have been improving the last few weeks & combine it with the defence we showed yesterday. We're not there yet & time is running out but we've seen we can do it when we have to.