Looked liked broken ribs to me. He seemed to be in a fair bit of pain, too.

Agreed or worse still rib cartilage. Not good.

Great more injuries dowes and hall have fallen tonight at this rate we will be playing the u21s in a few weeks!

I know. Could tell he'd broken/damaged the rib area as soon as the tackle is made. It's better for him if it's a break rather than soft-tissue damage though.

If O'Meley isn't fit next week, we'll probably just see Lauaki move to prop, as Tickle will be back, luckily.

At least they might have a bit of enthusiasm

Yeh and they have a scrum half

I didn't know hall was injured. I just assumed that he'd been taken off because he's cra[size=1.[/sizep?


Also, when you say 'play u21's', do you mean leave them on the bench for 80 mins?

Sam limping desperately at the end too.

It's why we have a squad.

Oh FFS we may as well wrap up now!!! it goes from bad to worse!! lol

yeh we would have to loan in 13 players first between the ages of 30-65 then put the kids on the bench then not use them

I shouldn't have laughed at that. But I did. I've had beers.

He's not crap, he's just not a SL player. He'd be great in the championship.

Not many left now, though.

We have Lyne, Tuffour, Kent and Jack Briscoe who have been on full time training this year.

Cunningham and Nicklas with first team experience.

does anyone know when we have some of the injured players returning, never know the young kids might bring some energy to the team, which happened at wigan a few seasons ago

Agar said Fitzgibbon and O'meley due back next game.

That's our half backs sorted then.

Should have chucked at least some of them into the melee tonight - we were always going to lose this one. At least that way they'd have got a bit of experience under their belts.

As it was, Agar played cautious, we were nilled anyway, and those young lads are still untried. It's not a squad until they are deemed capable of playing - Agar should have taken a tentative step towards that tonight. As it is, I beg to differ that we have a squad capable of playing at Super League standard. We've got a current scratchy 17.

(Nicklas did well for the last 5 minutes BTW.)

We're shagged. Pack will be better for the last few games, but with Dowes probably out, maybe Sam, plus Whiting, Calders, Hall and Long, stick a fork in us. We said all along the season depended on Long's fitness. We're going to end up playing Rovers in a play-off and getting beaten. FACT.

Noooooooooooo. I'd rather get dicked by 50 points at home to Cas than lose by 1 to Rovers.

It's inevitable unless we can somehow hold onto 5th as Hudds and Rovers have easier run-ins. Next weekend's game and the Crusaders ones are must wins.

dowesy is not the player he was 5 years ago when we won the cup

To be fair to Agar (not often I say that), if he had of started them and the same result had occurred he'd have got crucified for throwing them in at the deep end and ruining their confidence etc.

Who suggested starting them?

When it was obvious the game was lost (after the first half) should have introduced a couple with no pressure - a bit like he said he'd do in the Mail. Wasted opportunity IMO.

Fair enough, I'd question if throwing them on midway through a spanking counts as valuable experience though.