I accept what you say about Shaul, but in all honesty he isn't the problem. The real problem is actually with the halves themselves they supply poor quality service most of the time. When did they as a pair have a really good game, I can't recall one.

Completely agree,said last night on the Sneyd incident, Isa just walked away.None of our forwards in his face.I am not saying someone should have smacked him but we don't have an enforcer in the team anymore.As you say other teams seem to bully us.Perhaps Mau will change that next season.Can you imagine if Greenhill or Ogre(of recent times)had been on pitch,Isa would have been very sore by the end of the game.

Im agreeing with you dave k about green and hadley

Lane put some good hits in last night, see how he stopped Clubb on the line, saved a try with a solid hit yet gets slated.

Green isnt busy enough think i saw him do one decent run, yet still some say he played well

Problem is keeping our props busy, seems when Taylor goes off we have a habit off just trying to shift it out wide instead of utilising the interchange props more.

Missed Paea and Bowden, but surely something needs tinkering with why arnt we using the props more, id be interested to see the number of carries and metres made by our pack

Our pack is our biggest weakness this season.
They can’t get us going forward to lay a platform.

I agree about Kelly and Sneyd I can’t remember either. I just think every time the ball gets to Shaul in the opposition 20 we just stop. A few times last night we had a 3 on 2 and Shaul jumped on the spot and not making a decision. When was the last good game he had? The only thing Shaul has over Connor is speed imo. Our attacking options would improve massively with Connor, Kelly and Sneyd as pivots. Connor on the edges with ball in hand always looks dangerous.

My concern for next year with the improved personnel, is that we still don't have the ability to break sides down, unless it is with brute strength. A drop off to Manu Ma'u will be the same as a drop off to Sika Manu. Having Fonua and Connor/Carlos as centres will be negated by having Shaul as the supplier to them - big decision needs making with him

Shaul wouldn’t get into any other SL side on current form. He’s been quiet since about 2016 save a few dummy half scoots. When was the last time he even successfully supported a line break?

Unfortunately he’s Radford’s best mate.

Shaul not the problem, he does support thru the middle, repeatedly.

BUT he is the only one who does & our pack aren't blessed with offload ability, my hope is next years pack will not only be bigger & stronger but also much more skilful.

His defence was very good last night in all areas. Sadly Faraimo the weak link in defence, both under the high ball & in the frequency we concede walk ins on his wing. Not sure his decision making or those inside him ? but yesterdays try carbon copy of the two Briscoe tries at Leeds. Needs fixing !!!!

Could faraimo be the one to make way next season

Ratu
Connor
Carlos
Fonua

Connor
Faraimo
Los
Fonua
Ratu

With the way Wigan were flying up why did it take us until 70 odd minutes to kick a ball through for Ratu or even Shaul to chase?
They have pace, let's use it.

Because we lack intelligence were it matters. Instead of playing what's in front of them they stick to a regimented game plan. Five drives and a kick in the air.

We did have one good passage of play when we built pressure on their line.
We even kicked a grubber in the in-goal and forced a dropout. Unheard of for us recently.
Though we didn't score on those 3 sets Taylor barged over shortly after. No doubt in my mind that the effort expended in the previous spell of FC pressure enabled him to do that.
Hopefully LR looks at the video of that and focuses training on building pressure through repeat sets and not trying to score every set when the opportunity isn't there.

Given some of the tries we have scored this season, five drives and a kick is not really how we play all the time. When coming out of your own 20 yard line, clearly you want safety first.

Given we have got some real pace in Ratu, it does surprise me its not utilised more.

Another gallant loss
A loss is a loss is a loss
Gallant or garbage
It’s always ‘Jam tomorrow ‘
I’ll tell you now that we will NOT make the GF and we won’t next year
Next year - CC semi final and finish 4th

Lotto numbers Saturday please.

Missing a few forwards last night and 5 day turnaround didn't help. Credit to Wigan defence. Fash really tries but as others have said isn't big enough for a prop. Actually that was the best game I've seen lane have but can't see him in the 17 next year. Big game against wakey

I’ve not watched it back, but if Bureta gave away an eight point try for his tackle, shouldn’t the tackle on Bureta by Tom at Headingley in the act of him scoring also have been an eight pointer?

Yes, absolutely, that’s what makes it a complete farce. SL is garbage, the rfl, the refs, the quality, complete e, no wonder the games on its knees

Didn't you predict a defeat?

Small margins again , a game we could easily have won . It’s easy to point out at times our faults when we are only losing . As others have said , and I’ve said it for a while now , if Connor isn’t going to make it in the half’s , he needs to be at full back , get him on the ball more and as much as I like shaul he does have his faults at full back compared to the top ones and does halt our attack when he gets the ball . Shame he can’t play another position. Regards fash , I didn’t think he’d ever make a prop but he’s been going well lately and surprised me . He’s different to most , and makes a lot of metres for his size and does get to his feet quick . I think people would have a different opinion of him if he had better forwards round him and we was winning the middle more .

Referee,jet lag,short turnaround,yawnnnnn.

So, you would have been happy if, and I realise it's a long stretch, Rovers had played a very intense semi final on a Saturday, and then, despite there being 4 other games that could have been moved, they had been asked to play an important league game 5 days later??

I did and I was right

come back when you reach a semi final, or win anything of note.