Not too bothered about charnock to be honest don't know we're he is going to fit in, very happy with Owen though an out and out winger, higson was massively found out yesterday positionaly and speed wise he's too slow for a winger, would slow Owen straight in against Sheffield wiTh Kay coming in for pownall if fit

Just don't dress up as Santa while Richie's around

Does the signing of Owen not indicate that Kay may be out for a while - maybe I'm reading too much into it

Either that or we have finally realised higson isn't a winger!

Owen can also cover fullback, so maybe smith might be moved into centre. Either way gives us more options and more experience in the backs.

I'd leave smith at fullback he's good at bringing the ball back! Think worthington and whiting have been good, think the problem we have is on the wings

What's happened to Eze Harper?
Should we not be giving him a chance?

I agree with this, whats the point of signing him up if we aren't playing him? We may as well sent him out on a season long loan............

Carnock - Must be a replacement for Chase who missed Sunday?
Owens - Must be cover for Kay who must be out for over a month?

May be this is good planning to not overburn certain players, and to keep them fresh for the business end of the season. I think Harrison Hansen needs a rest soon, hes played every game the animal!

Is he included in your ever expanding salary cap!

Exemption due to not having 17 fit players available

Harper isn't good enough! Don't understand why we signed him up to be honest, players like Tracey were much more on in my opinion

Can see Carnock replacing Foster in the squad, he looks really promising but it seems to go a bit pear shaped whe Higham goes off

The difference that was obvious when Higham went off suggests that the recovery from injury of Beswick is of prime importance despite the loanees.

Good to get more players in while we see out this injury crisis. Also good to see teams willing to send us players on loan. I do hope though with two coming in at once it doesn't mean we've been hit with more injuries & had to scrabble to bring them in as a matter of urgency. Suppose we'll see next interview with Jukes.

We should stick with Foster or he'll never get the proper experience.
IMO he is good enough
No damage done yet

Harper should be given a chance or we will never know or let the lad get some game time somewhere else.

We made our bed we should lie in it.

Not keen on getting loanees in but Charnock is an interesting one, the less said about Owens the better.

IMO of course

Needs other players to step up and lead the team while Higham is off the pitch. Otherwise we'll be saying the exact same things about any young hooker that comes on for a spell.

Adam Higson was injured and was targeted by Bradford. We would have done exactly what they did in the same position.

Adam was at fault for their 1st try of the five at the end, but as I put on the other thread , it was our midfield letting a Bradford kick be re taken by one of their own and put in another kick that put him out of position

Steve, for the first try of their 'Lazarus act', Adam showed the winger the touchline, and he took it. He was beaten for pace. Also, I thought he should have done better with their next two tries, but he wasn't alone.

He did seem 'off colour' on Sunday. Ironically, his best contribution was probably getting sin-binned. Not only did he almost certainly save the try, but we enjoyed our best ten minute spell, while he was off the pitch!

We start nearly every game with 4 forwards as subs ,against teams with real pace if one of our backs gets injured we are struggling to get the position covered.In my opinion we have needed a winger with genuine pace and have done for the last couple of seasons

Agree prop been hammered down that flank many a time.

Don't think you can quite write Higson off based on that 1 game. Yes at the end of the game he was poor defensivly however that's very out of charicter for him, how many times have we seen him put big hits on players making a break? Might be wrong but this season I think Higson/Worthington or Pownall/Higson has been stronger defensivly than Kay/Armstrong. I rate Higson as a winger more than a or 2nd rower where he didn't do nesrly as well. He's powerfull & quick, a poor man's Ryan Hall. However I think going full time he's bulked up which has slowed him down a bit, he could almost do with losing a bit of strenght & gaining some more pace but that is being a bit picky.

Without pointing fingers at individuals - maybe it's more to do with defensive patterns - we are currently leaking rather a lot of tries, out wide, and we are very vulnerable to the high kick to the corner. Presumably the coaching team is working on this aspect of our play.

Over on the Saints message board, they all (those who have commented, at any rate

) seem to be complimentary to Lewis Charnock.

Don't think Kay, Pownall or Higson lack pace. If you are looking for rockets then most of them at our level either can't catch, can't tackle, can't read a game or even all 3