Shaul
Griffin
Tuimavave
Scott
Taylor
Cator
Matongo

Not great is it?

Fonua has to stay at centre too, much better running at halfbacks.

Fonua is much better in centre, gets to see more of the ball, a real handful and enjoying himself

Tend to agree Dave, tonight I thought he was the poorest forward and not by a small margin, just as he was starting to look more like the player he can be he got that elbow injury and it seems to have knocked his confidence again.

Thought Ma’u looked much improved again tonight. Fonua should remain in the centres as he looks a completely different player and said like others previously he’s a far better centre than winger.
Sneyd & Reynolds were again much improved and both engaging defenders and varying play. Connor again showed the talent he has with great affect. Sao & Satae again lead from the front. Swift and Lane also good performances.

Think Carlos maybe our a couple of weeks hopefully Scott is nothing serious and will be good to go against Leigh as he looked good up until getting injured.

Think Connor has to remain at FB and would be tempted to bring in Vulikijapani on the wing against Leigh with Swift switching to centre if neither Carlos or Scott are fit.

Still a mixed bag but improved in the 2nd half though still very much work in progress and a lot to work on.

Shame Ferreira is injured, sounds like he is next cab off the rank.

A decent win and a few on here are getting a bit giddy
We all want fc to win but put this into context
We beat a weakened Cas team missing their spine just days after they’d won their semi final.
Yes , Connor on his day is a good player but ..
Until he matures , his rugby he is a long way off being
England’s best full back.

Bowden has an ankle injury according to BH post match.

Jeez, think we've angered the gods

Anyone likely to be back for next week?

I noticed he did go down after colliding with Watts later in the 2nd half.

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Hope the 9 days turnaround will help our walking wounded

Fair to say Mahe was back tonight.

Played his best rugby at centre in 2016. Looks like he’ll be there for the foreseeable.

He was a real handful tonight. Wouldn't say back to his best but he's definitely going in the right direction.

It was an OK performance tonight, but nothing to get too excited about. Cas were missing a lot of important players and they were pretty poor. Our pack was dominant but you would expect that. I also thought we were pretty slick in attack, a lot of which was down to Reynolds being much more involved. We started slowly though and there's still too much indiscipline imo. It was a step in the right direction.

He can't catch a break.

We could do with another warm body to play prop. Brown can do a job but isn't quite there yet. I wonder if we might bring someon in just to fill out the squad.

He's looked short of confidence since coming back

But he's a far better centre gets caught out in defence on the wing

Hopefully he'll start to hit a run at centre

Ellis to make another comeback?!!!

certainly wont be seeing Tuimavave or Cam Scott for a few weeks

Cam Scott and Carlos will be out for several weeks
Little point in moving Savelio into the centre as we are short of forwards in any case.
I can see Mitch coming in for this game however i know people dont want to move Connor but that would be the simple solution and bring Connor Wynne in at full back

few things for me
1. Jake isn't a FB - no amount of BH coaching can give him pace! The 17-year-old debutant waltzed around him and Jake had all the time to set him up on a tight pitch.
2. Mahe is a Centre 7 days a week. He's carrying a belly on him that needs to go, but he is a Centre 100%
3. Jake is a future Hall of Fame player for FC

1. He was a rabbit in the headlights, there was support on the inside and Connor made his decision late. That kid was lightening quick and would have waltzed around most. I really dont know what Connor has to do to convince people we and him play better as him as a FB.
2.Mahe best game since he came back, should be his spot for rest of the season now.
3. If he improves his consistency then im sure you are right.

As well as Connor has done at full back the sensible thing to do would be to move him to centre and bring Wynne in, so assuming Carlos, Scott and Bowden are missing I'd go for this team at Leigh

Wynne, Faraimo, Connor, Fonua, Swift, Reynolds, Sneyd, Satae, Houghton, Sao, Savelio, Ma'u, Lane

Fash, Brown, Johnstone, McNamara

Tough times as from our 28 man squad we pretty much down to 18 or 19 fit players and the ones above the only ones with first team experience,

Reading Hodgsons comments on the HDM it sounds like he is expecting all of Carlos, Scott and Bowden to miss some games.

Certainly doesn't sound good and hope things aren't as bad as first thought once they've all been fully assessed. It would be a real shame for Scott if he is out for an extended period as I thought it was his strongest performance to date.

Moving our main creator, into the centres, would greatly reduce our attacking threat, and cause disruption to the spine .
Maybe play Faraimo at centre and Wynne on the wing or vice versa..
Hopefully, the injuries suffered to Tuimavave & Scott are short term.

I agree, he looks to have developed into a really powerful carrier of the ball. He's been waiting patiently for a run in the side so it will be horrible luck if he is out for an extended period.
Its an AC joint injury by the sounds of it but I have no clue what sort of layoff that usually is.