You cant do much in attack if you dont see the ball
Bradfords attack is all one sided

Drop Bowden when we have someone to take his place not now.We are running on fumes at the moment
I also said we should start Big Chris on the bench for a few games as he is the only real impact we have.
I would start with Bowden and Sao with Satae,Fash.Brown and McNamara on the bench.
Like you say McNamara could cover Houghton but also the coach could bring him on for Sneyd at some point and see if it benefits our attack.

Cas are missing a few after the weekend including Evalds and Trueman, so we need to take this opportunity to pick up the points and get on a run.

After this week, we’ve got a good.9 day break before we go to Leigh.

Yeh great idea, split up the best thing about our team, Satae Sao smashing it up when on together, I’d prefer for our bench players step up more and lesson the impact of either one of them going of, we want our best players on the pitch together at the same time, for as long as possible

Current injury situation

Josh Griffin (achilles) - will miss the rest of the season

Scott Taylor (foot) - expected back in four to six weeks

Joe Cator (calf) - expected to be back in three to four weeks

Jamie Shaul (ACL) - back in full training in three to four weeks and available for selection around six weeks after that

Masi Matongo (knee) - expected out for a few months yet

Jude Ferreira (shoulder) and Joel Speed (hamstring) are both our for a few weeks and Harvey Barron (leg fracture) is expected to miss between three to five months,

Wigans game has now been call off .

I'm sure we'd all like our bench to have exactly the same impact as Satae and Sao but the fact is they currently don't. As it is we lose a lot when they both leave the field so one way of mitigating that is to split them up and try to maintain a steady level of impact.
It has its pros and cons certainly but its hardly the absurd notion you suggest it is.

We would all prefer our bench players to step up but its quite obvious that whilst the effort is there from the players we can all see there is no impact from any of our bench.
Thats the reason Hodgson rotates Sao and Satae rather than bringing both off and introducing the two bench front rows so as to mitigate the impact loss.
There is no stigma asking our best Front row to come off the bench when required to give us some intensity and impact especially as he would be running at some tiring players.

How many good games as Connor actually had this season?

He cost us the match at Wigan, threw about 3 forwards to fonua against catalan, was nowhere near the high bomb for welsbys hat trick against saints week before, cost us the match on the saturday on the grace intercept

Yet people seem to ignore all them howlers

Not absurd, just pointless, what’s the point of having our best front rower sat on the bench, both capable of big minutes especially Sao, what’s the point, start the game as you mean to go on, and let’s get better performances from the bench, rather than punishing our top performers with a bench spot

Hes joint top for try assists this year. So I'd say the good outways the bad.

He's our most creative player from full back.

No stigma maybe. But I’m not happy if I’m the best front rower sat on the bench, and rightly so

Facts are not his strongest suit.

.... odd that we're 2nd from bottom for SL tries scored this season, but were 2nd from top last year before the playoffs.

So setting up tries against Salford and Huddersfield in meaningless early round super league games is more important than costing us a semi final...






We was favourites at that moment until he threw the most dreadful pass ever seen even Jonathan Davies said what's he doing

Games are won and lost by moments.
If Fonua had defended his wing better, if Griffin hadn't dropped the ball, all ifs and buts, to stifle Connof's creativity is nieve at best.
All players are culpable and Connor our most creative player should not be singled out for 1 pass.

I’m hoping posters continue to ignore you.

I think Connor is still learning the fullback roll, he’ll get better, but will learn from the errors he as made, just soooooo wish he had that extra bit of pace, would become one of the best fb in game

Not just 1 moment though is it

As I said earlier he also cost us the match at Wigan giving away a stupid penalty near end of the match

Also made other howlers like I said

Yet weirdly some of our fans ignore all that

He didnt cost us the game, it's a team game, you have clearly never played a team sport before if you dont understand that.

He has made mistakes, but which players havent, but he has contributed so much to the attack. Has to stay in the middle with our current set up

The only weird thing is the constant rubbish that you push. Connor is key to what we do and his good far outweighs his bad.

He'd never get the gig for any of the 16 NRL clubs at full-back.
They just about all threaten from open or deep broken play. He aint got that in his locker.
Horses for courses innit.
Doesn't stop his being a threat for us joining the line with his soft hands or cut-out pass to his outside backs ( or Regan Grace )

Hes set up 11.

We didn't lose the semi due to that one act. You may as well blame Griffin if thats your attitude.

Connor
Fonau
Carlos
Scott
Swift
Grub
Sneyd
Sao
Mint
Satae
Ma'u
Dre
Lane
Subs
Brown
Bowden
JJ
Faraimo/Macca
I'd give Fash a week off need to spell JJ with Mint after a tough semi, Faraimo/Macca on the bench as always need a back on the bench IMO

It’s not officially announced, but am hearing Leeds v Saints will be off, covid issues unfortunately.