I didn't want tom to go and still gutted he is, but his defence is shocking at times and gets pulled in far to easy, also bombed a try tonight, didn't matter but hes got a habit of doing it,a deadly finisher but wires gonna have to work on his defence

Pearson mentioned tonight that 'in hindsight' we should have tried harder to keep him. Apparently we were worried about his injury record so when a decent offer came in we took it. Very disappointing, defensive issues notwithstanding.

He does make plenty of bad reads and he has to trust his centre more. Don't agree that he bombed a try though. Farrell positioned himself really well so that the pass wasn't really on. The other option he had was to kick back inside, but it's very hard to do when running flat out.

Talanoa gave him the ball far too early, he needed to commit a defender and that would have give lineham the space he needed.

Exactly or talanoa heads for the wing & TL comes in against the grain. But that's the difference with having a winger in the centre.

I'm not sure Talanoa had the pace to run far enough with the ball to draw Bowen in. I think his plan was let Lineham draw the full back in and support back on the inside, but the cover defence did really well.

You say that Wire will have to work with him, but I'm afraid that's the difference between the two clubs, they pay a lot of money for a potential superstar and will put the time and effort in to make that happen, Hull drop him and sell him. Solid players are more Hull's bag under this regime.

Wire have had one bad season, already signed a young English winger who is likely to top the try scoring charts, and a player in Sandow who will absolutely tear up SL, not too mention getting rid of poor performers. Hull will keep the players that have kept us average for the past 4 years.

The decision to sell Lineham had nothing to do with any perceived lack of solidity. If anything I'd have preferred that to be the case.

I'm sure our caching staff have been working on Lineham's defence, particularly since Lineham himself admits it's a failing. Maybe Wire's coaches will have better luck.

Spot on, Warrington have moved quickly to address their problems, have cut their losses on the expensive Myler after years of just being average and even in a poor season sit 80mins from Wembley.

to be fair to the binman he was our best back tonight and made ground better than anybody imo

Not really, they are replacing Monaghan with Lineham and have spent a year replacing Briers.

Absolutely he bombed a try! Why on earth did he run straight at Bowen? A simple in and out would have seen him in the corner with ease, absolutely stupid decision to run straight at a SOO FB who easily nailed him.
As for his defence for there first two tries, the ease with which Burgess got round him was embarrassing.

I agree with that.Radford goes for the big solid player at the expense of pace and flair.

Micheals?

You trying to tell us Micheals has pace & flair?

Well he definitely hasn't got size!

he was also signed on a one year deal as a winger who had real pace according to the club.
The fact that both he and Yeaman are reported to be offered extensions to their contracts shows a real lack of ambition or ability to sign top players.

michaels is bang average so nailed on to be signing for next season. Looks like we may have:

yeaman
michaels
logan
talanoa
vidot?
fonua
naughton

Vying for 4 places next year. Too many players and not enough quality for me. I would rather we have fewer but better quality players and cover injuries from the younger players. Having overseas players who may not even make the 17 is stupid

Spot on.

On the money.

I'd rather not have one of them and the money spent on a proven coach.

We need to recruit another prop IMO as I don't see ellis playing too many games and feka will be even less effective next season if he does stay. bowden seems very injury prone and green still not doing enough for me. Leaves a lot on the shoulders of watts and taylor

watts n taylor have big minutes in them. Also bowden been unlucky. Dont really see him as injury prone. Regular calfs hamstrings etc is how I clads injury prone. Ankle bent in a challenge is 1of them things. Ellis be ok at prop. Steady stints instead of 80s.
green been good recently. Real good even. Cas n rovers he was a standout for me. Hes thrown some outrageous offloads as well recently. Seems to be adding to his game. I wouldnt spend more on props. Pack is top 4 standard. Halfs are more than adequate. Backs are gash. All monies on them for me

You're entitled to your opinion but we've been significanty worse this season when paea and watts have been off the field. Obviously bowden isn't injury prone apart from the fact he keeps getting injured and green doesn't seem to have the engine needed to be a top class prop. His stats are miles off those of watts and paea. ellis will do well to come back from his current injury but I have little confidence he'll be injury free next season leaving us short up front IMO.

We're used to some poor defence from our wingers, in the last 6 or so years all 8 wingers we've used have been suspect at times (or often in some cases).

I'm more worried about his injury record. Does he seem to have sorted those small niggly muscle injuries?

Do you mean knee reconstruction and two broken legs/ankles?