Still under contract next season anyway. Somehow …

If that was good I’d hate to see him have an average game.

Was at fault for their first try.

Dropped the ball on the first tackle when taking a hit up.

Put in a poor kick on the second tackle when we were near there line.

Yes he made 54 tackles but because of these errors I think his overall performance was far from good.

cr@p, thought this was his final year

Truth be told Ive never really got his hype in all honesty. His try scoring for a centre is shocking.

Agree with this, how many of those tackles were 2nd or 3rd man in, still counts as a tackle. Also I’d suggest that he made that many tackles as teams are targeting him because of his flat footed defending. Paul Vaughan made about 20m post contact meters off one carry with Lane and hoy in the tackle.

His best asset in his prime was consistency, always at least a 7 out of 10 and rarely injured. Also he was more mobile than the big backs we had at the time so it was a good mix.

Lanes ruck and square marker management is absymal.

Penalty machine, error and missed tackle machine.

Nothing he does justifys the amount of shoddyness and brain farts he emits

Houghton retiring end of season id hope balmforth replaces and Hodgson isnt far off.

Carlos contract up thank you and good bye. Can Cam Scott take his place hes another who seems very injury prone. Or do we invest?

Joe Cator another contract up, id again say thank you and good bye just on games missed and durability.

And id see if i could get Lane transferred out, Wakey. Castleford may bite.

Those would be the big decisions that need making end of this season.

Would love a specialist looseforward with creativity and abit of grunt.

In an ideal world Jebson and Stavely really come on this season and take Lanes spot.

Any good centres out of contract as for me times ticking out for Cam Scott.

Or do we use Carlos.s quota spot on a marquee halfback?

Is our conditioning team a problem? Another area Pearson is doing on the cheap? We can't constantly be getting this many injuries each season through bad luck....look at the difference being at a well resourced team made to Tom Johnstone, constantly injured at Wakefield, constantly playing for Catalan

Thing is, there's having a dig, which the majority of players will do, but I don't think Lane should be in our first team, that effort on Vaughan last week showed why. If we released him today ,which super League team would sign him up?

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Vaughan was excellent but he was in a dominant bigger pack
Playing with one man extra.
Lane was in a beaten pack with young kids…
Some of the young kids were brushed off tackles in the later stages.
If Lane only made 34 tackles, instead of 54,
then who would have have made the other 20 tackles for him..
If he’s made 2nd man or third man tackle, then would the attacking player have released the ball out of the tackle..?

He’s not been targeted , he’s having to do extra defensive work with Houghton missing and cator too.
If we apply your reasoning then does that mean teams target Houghton every game when he makes 50 tackles.

It really does baffle me why posters keep criticising the kid.
He’s a hull local lad playing for the shirt and giving it a go.
Yes we all know he’s not international class but looking at the squad, I can’t see many “ international class “ players..

I’m sorry but his performances are not good enough.

I get no pleasure from pointing out this fact and would love him to eradicate these errors and get back to the form he showed in his early days.

He used to be a decent Super League forward.

He made a poor attempt at tackling the young stand off in the lead up to their first try. This was in the first 10 minutes.

Echo all this, showed so much promise early doors, but he’s nowhere near good enough as it stands. Far too many mistakes, errors etc

Lane played his best rugby under Hodgson, regressed under Smith

Lane is now a back up 2nd row. He isn't great but no point banging on about how a back up player isn't good enough. If we are going to replace him then the interesting question is with who? Who could we bring in who is better?

Severs and Staveley for starters

We are nil from 2 and finished 10th last season
It’s not all down to Lane, is it?
Personally think some folk have a downer on him.

What a stupid statement

did I say it was all down to him. It’s down to our recruitment being poor and being well under the cap. I have a downer on him because imo he’s not good enough. Entitled to my opinion which it seems many share about him.

Sutcliffe has lost his appeal, two match ban stands.

Not surprised, was a pretty flippant appeal really, fair play for trying.

Impressively mature reply cuddle club

Think the club were lucky they didn’t get the ban increased.
Strange decision to appeal.

I think people are saying lane isn't the greatest and never will be. But we are asking this team to leave nothing on the pitch. Certainly lane hasn't done that. The kid isn't a world beater and I think we need better. But ATM hes getting stuck in and doing his best to his ability.

Right, our other back up 2nd rows. Competition is good. Stavely was great last week but Severs isn't fully fit yet. If those two move ahead of Lane in the pecking order then we are gonna need another scapegoat.

Hmm, not sure if that’s true or just a lazy analysis based on human nature. I would like to think and from the evidence of Carlos’s several years with us that he puts 100% in all the time. Hard to do when your calf muscle might ping at any time.