First of all, how good is it to have Super League back?! It's been a long off season for us all filled with anticipation, nervousness and maybe sprinkled with a little bit of dread (especially after last week's scoreline).



Looks like we've lost Sao and possibly Asiata from this weekend, and still waiting on the disciplinary panel so appreciate this may be a little bit of a premature starting of a thread. Hopefully we'll have both Bourouh and Ashworth back in the mix, which helps to improve the standard of the 17. As I've said on another thread, I wouldn't be surprised to see Kirby in there, and it's time to bring Moy in now.



Having watched Hudds today, I'm confident it's a game we can get something from against a team who will be around a similar position as us at the end of the year. It's a big game and would be great to have some positive news on Cartwright or Hardaker but it sounds unlikely.

I'd bring Moy in for this one, get Rapana in the centres if Hardaker is still out.



Could do with Ashworth back too.

Am sure Hudds will be quite confident they can beat us, probably will if we don't get any bodies back or lose more

I’d have quite fancied us, but the injuries are ridiculous already

With Hudds Tipped to finish in the bottom half like us we really need to pick up the points in this game ,

We need to get some players back but atm it's not looking good .

Carty said it’s a Must Win game and finally we have a coach saying this !



It is a Must win because 2 points is as vital in week 3 as in week 20 as they count the same



The team with the least mistakes will win and likely the highest completion rate will also have the least mistakes and penalties etc



We have enough to win but who knows what happens

If Ashworth and Asiata are out on top of the others missing in the forwards just don’t see how we could field a competitive pack to win this game.

Very 50/50 game this, both teams will fancy a win, hard to say until we see the squad, hopefully have the two DSJ mentioned available.



If they are out, cannot see a win at all.



Maybe a extra body in.



Moy has to be in, too good not to be in with the players we have out, bringing him in, strengthens the centre and backrow too.

Looking like 6 weeks for Hardaker. Agree with Dave about bringing Moy in and moving Rapana to centre.

Not ideal but i'd rather have Chamberlin second row than Fash.

Best case scenario



Moy

Barron

Rapana

Briscoe

Martin

Cust

Sezee

Ese Ese

Borough

Aydin

Lane

Ashworth

Asaita



Fash

Salabio

Chamberlain

Balmforth

Been told we wont see Moy for another couple weeks with injury.



Four big games ahead in the league, three of which I see as ones we should be winning. I must admit I do worry that we seem to be struggling with the same injury problems already.

I posted a while ago about the clear injury risk of signing over 30s

We didn’t have to wait long



Goodness me I hope we can field a pack that can get Sezer and Cust and Balmforth on the front foot

I agree it's a concern and not an ideal start in terms of luck on the injury front however I see NOTHING from Huddersfield to suggest we can't bag 2 points against them and with Borouh and Ashworth likely to be back I'm quietly confident. Moy wouldn't be playing anyway so can see us carrying on with same backline that played against Wigan unless we bring in a wildcard on loan or something

If Moy is injured so we need to keep Rapana at full back I would seriously consider giving Westerman a shot in the centres. Huddersfield are one of the weaker teams in the league so arguably a good time to give him a shot. Hopefully it doesn't need to be for a prolonged period of time but I'd rather see him in the centre and Chamberlain at second row than keeping Fash at second row.

Alternatively give Kirby a shot again. He showed up fairly well against Salford last season and looked solid defensively.

I'd rather play Westerman than Chamberlain at centre, Hudds are weak there unless Milne plays.

Agree with this, anyone has got to be a better option than Chamberlain at centre.

Has anyone seen stats for chamberlain against Wigan. I dont feel hes as bad as people make out but willing to be challenged on this

12 carries for 72 metres

11 tackles 3 missed

One error



And think he got taken into touch twice.

Swap Ashworth and Chamberlain round for me, Ash better off the bench

Good news on the disciplinary front with no bans, hopefully some good news to come with injuries too.

The error will be the getting taken into touch as it goes down as an incomplete set so maybe only once, although the stats from the super league site don't look right. They take them off a live/real time analysis, the other more comprehensive analysis is done post game but not sure where those stats end up. There's no way Wigan completed at 99%. Off the top of my head, Leeming knocked on at the PTB for at least 1 incomplete set, so unless they had 100 sets (they didn't) then theres a mistake somewhere.

All stats aside, I just don’t rate the guy and he shouldn’t be anywhere near a starting shirt, a truly baffling piece of recruitment for me.

Has chamberlain taken over from lane as the new fall guy?

Wigan absolutely battered us.

It can’t all be chamberlain, Lane and Fash’s fault.

I don’t see anybody blaming him (fall guy) for the defeat, Wigan were just too good as they will be for most teams. That doesn't distract from the fact Chamberlain is a poor signing especially on a 3 year deal.

Chamberlain was signed for his versatility Myler said I think ,And the way our players are dropping atm , that will come into play in the next coming weeks .