I was only sticking up for Yeamo yesterday too as he gets stick for no reason imo, however last night he was absolutely rubbish. Hally needs to get a game in the left centre. (he wont though, Agar definately has something wrong with him, whether its favourites or not i dont know)

I would like to see Hall play left centre on Friday and would probably have Turner on the right wing outside Whiting. Sam Moa did enough to keep his place in my eyes but would not be surprised to see him make way for Cusack.

Really hope Horne is fit!

Was Turner injured when he got taken off or just annonymous at 6?

Briscoe, Yeaman, Lyne and Radford should all be dropped for the derby. Unfortunately, we don't have enough players to do it.

Turner must play somewhere from 2-5, Lyne clearly wasn't ready for SL and Agar has yet again put a player in a ridiculous position.

Tansey Turner Yeaman Hall Whiting might be as good as it gets ???

I've no doubt that Moa will take the blame for all of our mistakes and penalties and will be dropped yet again.

No idea but then again our substitutions usually leave me baffled anyway!

Lauaki for Lyne has to be the best!!

Tansey
Turner
Hall
Manu
Whiting
Horne
Long
O'Meley
Berrigan
Cusack
Tickle
Burnett
Fitz

Moa
Dowes
Lauaki
Houghton

Tansey
Turner
Hall
Manu
Whiting
Horne
Long
O'Meley
Berrigan
Cusack
Tickle
Burnett
Fitz

Moa
Dowes
Lauaki
Houghton

sorry double post !!

I think that Manu could be a short term answer to our 2-5 problems. Maybe switch the wingers round so that Turner is on Manu's wing and Whiting on Hall's ?

TBH I'd rather stick with Yeaman than shift Manu into the centres.

I'd go with

Tansey
Turner
Hall
Whiting
Briscoe
Horne
Long
Dowes
Berrigan
O'Meley
Tickle
Manu
Fitzgibbon

Cusack
Moa
Lauaki
Houghton

Although Yeamna was poor with ball in hand last night (who wasnt), he wasnt the worst, I think he has had a good season so far so deserves to play.

I think he will play.
I'd pair Whiting with Briscoe as Whiting is fairly solid under the high ball and I think he'd give Briscoe a bit more protection than Yeaman. I also think Hall should play which leaves the tough option of dropping Yeaman.

Yeaman and Briscoe were both shocking and, for me, so bad that they should be dropped. How many times are we going to see Briscoe out of position for opponents tries before he recieves any criticism ?? It is becoming beyond the joke !

If we go into the derby with golden boy Briscoe on one of our wings, dobson will a have a field day !!

Who else do we put there though?
Our only winger is out injured and we're struggling to effectively cover him let alone dropping Briscoe aswell.

That's exactly why I would put Manu out there. We have the cover in the back row and it would enable us to go into the dobbins game with two solid wingers in Whiting and Turner.

Tansey
Turner
Manu
Hall
Whiting

For me, that's as good as it currently gets and would gives us a fighting chance when faced with kicks to the corner aswell as giving us a more potent threat out wide in Hall and Manu.

That backline has too many people playing out of position for my liking. Two makeshift wingers and a second row in the centres is going to get caught out IMO. I know out defence on the flanks has been a bit flimsy so far but I don't think replacing Yeaman with Manu is going to achieve anything, he just doesn't have the experience and centre is supposedly the hardest place to defend.

His defensive mis-reads were worse last night than i've seen before. Every time they attacked down their right Yeamo was in no mans land every time.

Drop briscoe

Who would you replace him with? We've got no real wingers as it is, at least Briscoe has some experience of wing play.

I dont think Briscoe has done a lot wrong tbf.

Neither do I, he gets caught out a bit at times but we've leaked tries down the other side too.

Its a shame that Briscoe only gets the ball from dummy half and has a wall of defenders to run at! Still looks very strong in the collision and should be used further in field IMO.

Our backs in general get little ball in attack and are exposed in defence by our pattern of playing tight and sliding last minute. Doesn't excuse mis-reads and knock on's though like Yeamo last night and dropped ball by Lyne but other than that i cant really complain about the backs.

The bigger issue was our pack getting beat by a Salford pack that didnt look able to on paper. Was all about entusiasm and we showed none. Fitz and O'Meley were poor who normally lead from the front and Dowes/Radford may as well have not been on the park.