Hastings FB again. Smith and Tommy in the halves.

This isn’t going to end well.

Hanley and his partner had a baby the other day so perhaps hasn’t trained? Born in 30th June.

Got a place behind the sofa to watch this one.

I finish work at 8pm,home by half past. If its not game over by the time I get in I will be amazed.

That’s fair enough but to continue playing our best half at FB when there’s so little creativity and cohesion coming from Tommy and Smith is sheer lunacy

Where talking about Lam here, couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery

Yup. I just can’t see how IL/KR haven’t seen it. Perhaps after tonight’s live screened murder they might take action.

Phil Clarke speaking the most sense he has in a while. Proper laying into our pack and Bullock especially

Nevertheless if Hanley *isn't* available, it does mean someone as to play there. If not Hastings, who? Marshall did not look happy, and I suspect Smith would be even worse.

Bullock is the most frustrating player in superleague. He’s built like a tank and is as fast as a prop comes but his mentality is so weak. He’ll be great at Wire if Powell gets them scoring points for fun because he can just play on the back of others and not do any spade work himself but we need him to step up here and he just doesn’t do it. You get the feeling he wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes under Wane a bit like Sam Hopkins.

What a shambles we are.

That Bibby ‘attempt’ comes down to bottle plain and simple. He didn’t fancy being tackled.

Child’s is hammering us here

I’m not aware that ‘grabbing the arm’ at the play the ball is an infringement but I might be wrong.

Second best at everything yet again, we can't make yards anywhere. Bibby is just gash under a high ball. We are so bland with the ball, so easy to read. This rugby is worse than watching a Brian Noble coached Wigan team, far worse.

Even if we somehow claw back a win (we won't), I will still be bored stiff.

Our defence is shocking tbh. We look like kids playing against adults.

There was barely any penalties or set restarts against Wire but obviously Child wants to be on the camera tonight.

How is Leuluai still in this team? He brings nothing now.

And now our 'middles' are Partington, Byrne and Shorrocks. Fantastic.

4 drives on their line flowed by Smith kicks dead, they then easily make it to our try line in 4 tackles, we then fail to make any yards, kick on the last that barely makes it oast half way, then give away a penalty, truly pathetic effort with the ball and without, topped off by poor discipline..

Does Child know the rules at the play the ball ? Doesn’t seem so to me.
He just said you can’t move until the hooker picks it up . That’s absolute nonsense

That's how we've played all season even when we didn't have loads of injuries.

I was on here moaning a couple of months ago about us just taking the tackle on the 5th constantly but apparently it was "very smart play" and "great game management". Now it's obvious that we just lack any skill.

Willie Isa is brain dead.

Please do not offer him a new contract.

Smith needs taking out the firing line for a spell, as do some of the young forwards but the squad depth has been stripped so it’s impossible.

All else aside…we’re getting absolutely rinsed by terrible officials here.

Embarrassing performance from James Child.