what we are lacking at the moment is a ruthless edge that rips teams apart, the start we had we should of been more ruthless and nasty we have to have an appetite to kill of teams within the first 30 mins, we've done it before

I understood that we now had the last piece of the jig saw?

Not time to panic just yet. Playing the promoted team is always a banana skin. The stats show we had the better of the game in all areas aside from handling errors and tries. They scored 3 I think diving over from close range?

The biggest area of concern for me was how porous our right edge looked.

Brough went ok and put on 3 decent assists through gaps you could fit a bus down.

Big test of character coming up vs Saints, but Chester will have rightly done his nut in the week - I think we will compete but end up falling short of a Saints team who played so well vs Wigan

lol..

one game and the knives are out..



if they ain't panicking, they ain't breathing

apart from the trolls at this forum, this crap is by far the most irritating component of the board.

Completely agree, don’t get me wrong it was a poor performance but some people just spout s***.

19 versus Saints
Tinirau Arona
Joe Arundel
Matty Ashurst
Danny Brough
Jordan Crowther
Anthony England
David Fifita
Ryan Hampshire
Justin Horo
Craig Huby
Tom Johnstone
Ben Jones-Bishop
George King
Danny Kirmond
Craig Kopczak
Reece Lyne
Jacob Miller
Bill Tupou
Kyle Wood

No Jowitt, if he is available for selection then this is very surprising and difficult to comprehend, can only presume he must be injured

Yes I am surprised that Max is not included.

He looked very good in pre season too.

He is a our most natural full back and his passing has resulted in a few class tries for TJ in the corner.

Hope CC gives him a decent shot at the position this year.

If this is the case must mean Jordy will cover at hooker?

Can Horo cover 9 as well or, did I dream that he'd played there in the odd game

Agreed. Scratching my head as to what Max has to do to get selected. But luckily it's not my job.

Arundel & who to miss out? Kirmo or Horo?

Tbh in the great scheme of things does it really matter who plays hooker, It's not as though his feet will get anywhere near the ball anyway.

I would drop one of the wingers, not bothered which one, put Lin or Twopoo on the wing and play Arundel as he is our best defensive and for that matter the our with the best rugby brain

I quite agree

Ashurst has also covered in the past.

Good job you’re not the coach. Jeez

I dont blame the wingers for last weeks shambles!! Toupou had his worst game for Wakefield in a long time, yet still ended up the most metre maker. The main reason was the pack selected by the coach. The pack was completely out played and lost the ball in the collision many times. The ball never reached the wingers once in attack, as any passing movement was stopped by a forward, just running the ball in. Hope this was not down to the coaching again.

The optimistic view is that we always had our eye on the Saints game and took London for granted and we've been planning to "do a job" on Saints for half of the close season.
I'm clinging desperately to this theory as the alternative is slightly unpalatable.

Come on Trin !

Fantastic coaching there with a knee jerk reaction.


We moan about not playing the best 13 and you want to prat about with the best centres/wings we've had for ages.
Glad you're only on here.

Unbelievable that after one game someone would drop a dream team centre and an England centre for Arundel.
Fair enough if after 3 or 4 games they are under performing give Arundel a shot.
Really is a load of on here at times.

centre in Arundel moving in to centre to take his place. its not rocket science given we are playing Saints who will run us ragged if we play like we did against London.

Stick rocky in at hooker ,move bish to fullback, arundal on at centre

Stick to what we know, the only changes will be in the forward imo.

Although there were mistakes a plenty last week, our main weakness was defending down the middle.
Our forwards, on the day, weren't up to the task in hand.
To start and change all of our three quarters and FB is leaving the main problem unsolved.
Although there are a couple of injuries which necessitate changes, there is a case for putting the same players back on the park to show that they can defend.
Having said that, Saints have some real grunt in their pack and England coming back in is a must.