I would at least give him a chance

It is obvious Radford does not rate Miller I suppose that is sport . His face obviously does not fit , but look at his history the kid can also kick goals. It is a lot of money to have sat in the stands.Not to sure what he is earning but it will be plenty .

What a waste of 2 quota spots Mcdonnell and Miller seem to be !

The situation with Carvell is getting a bit of a worry now , Has the club said anything on just how serious the injury is ?. I would also like to see Miller given a shot again.

And they'll continue to be a waste while we have to have"local "players in their positions

McDonnell is a good player but again Radford has plans for Shaul , Good or Bad ? we have invested in our youth we should use him .I do not know what the answer is but the vast majority of people in English RL have wanted less overseas players and more home grown talent .We have a coach who is prepared to give the local or home grown talent a go . I do not imagine it is doing a lot for the career or confidence of young Miller but sport is a cruel game to be involved in.

widnes 19 man squad

Ah Van, Brown, Clarke, Craven, Dean, Flynn, Galea, Gerrard, Gilmore, Hanbury, Isa, Johnson, Joseph, Kavanagh, Leuluai, Phelps, Marsh, Tickle, White

Heremaia & ranking are not local?

I mean Horne and Shaul

I personally think horne is better then miller defensively, & shannon is a bit windy although he joins the line a bit better in attack i dont see him as supportive or as fast as shaul, radders wont have a place for poor defenders or windy players, what coach would?

If we're picking our halfbacks on defensive capabilities then we might as well give up.

Judging by Radfords attempt to sign Luke Gale earlier in the year doesn't give me any confidence he'll be able to recruit well enough in that area too.

We are not there on the training ground so we dont know exactly how he picks the team, but any bad defender is targeted by the opposing team, look at kr with welham, the good players are recruited well in advance he just tried to get gale as bradford were losing players & tried to tempt him away as we need a ball player who can defend.

You can't compare the defensive duties of a HB with that of a centre. You're supposed to protect your halfbacks and our defensive record was pretty good last year when Miller was in the team.
Either Radford has his favourites or there's cap implications. Given there's a similar situation with Pitts I'll go for the former.

Of course you can, if you cant tackle your no good on a rugby pitch, if he goes between the wing & centre to defend he will be targeted you do protect them but you cant tackle for him youve just got a crush on miller.. the sooner you get over him the better, pitts is a squad player & should be in when the troops are down but again he picks the team on how they do all week, i know for sure 100% radders picks the team on what he sees fit not favourites, he wont pick anyone who will let the side down and jeopardize his own job. fact!

Just not the right week to bring miller in let's get all our props fit we will get injuries to our halfbacks down the line. iam sure his time will come but in all honestly I didn't see much from him last season that would greatly improve us at the moment. Massive game for us on Sunday if we lose 4 points from 12 is gunna put pressure on all the squad and staff

He isn't going to start changing the HB's when we're down to the bare bones in the front row.
We'll be struggling in the middle, and adding in the Crooks factor, the fewer unforced changes the better.

I still think Miller is on his way (so won't be played), along with McDonnell. It's nothing to do with "favourites".

How ironic that Radford is accused of picking favourites simply because he isn't selecting someone else's.

Perhaps (just perhaps) Radford doesn’t want to risk it with Miller, behind a much weaker pack.

A crush? Grow the up. You don't pick halfbacks on defence, the sooner you 'get over it' the better.

Explain to me why Hadley & Kent are getting in front of Pitts? And don't give me the Radford sees them day in/day out BS, Pitts is a better player than them both.

Really? I'm not the only one disappointed by Millers omission. The comment was mainly put forward because of the Jay Pitts situation, which coupled with Smailes' tweet earlier in the week is a genuine question if you ask me.

I can only suggest Miller has been caught pratting Radford's missus?!

Have you ever seen Miller's missus? The kid has no need to look elsewhere!!

very suprised miller hasnt been given a chance, also more suprised pitts isnt in the squad, i think every coach in sl has his fav , radford no different, saying all that dont think in the bigger picture radford doing such a bad job imo

what are you swearing for? Millers gash so take his picture down off your bed side & deal with it lenny picks the team so deal with it! You meatball!

The thing I'm most surprised about is Pitts not being in the squad when our front row is as depleted as it is. He's got plenty of experience of playing prop (or 13 in a similar style) which is what we would need in this game where we potentially will only have 1 recognised prop (Watts) playing there.
I don't think Prop is the position for Pitts in the long run but surely he should have at least been in the squad for this game with Green, Carvell, Paea, Bowden, and possibly Feka all out?

Unsurprised at Miller's absence. I think he's deserving of a shot when you look at the performances of our other HBs but I don't think that this is the weel for it when we have so many injuries in other areas.

I think we'll see either Houghton or Heremaia playing some of the game at 13 with the other at Hooker.