With Dixon, it might be a balance between over confidence and lack of confidence that is affecting him at the moment, with the former delivering style and substance interspersed with needless risk and the latter dishing up errors, positional issues and defensive lapses.

I see small similarities between Dixon and Sam Tompkins but I suspect the latter's time in the NRL will have improved him. We shall see in due course.

That said, there is an olive branch opportunity here for Dixon in the Renaissance of a recent Rovers fullback of similar inconsistency. Name = Greg Eden. Unwanted and unloved by us. 4 appearances to date on the wing for Brisbane under the tutelage of allegedly one of the best ever coaches in RL and now at the helm of England.

So daft and incongruous as it might seem, maybe a spell in Oz trying get an NRL gig, just might be the tonic needed to kick-start Dixon's all-round game and iron out his weaknesses.

This is about right.

This and the Hull Fc internet loop have cheered me up.

Calling a player a chicken or spineless is instantly wrong. They are on a rugby field. His confidence is shot. He takes an easy option to avoid missing tackles at the moment. Silverwood destroyed him with that awful knock on call first touch and he fell to bits.

Some players such as Dixon need support in defence. Some players like Horne need support in attack. Some players like Blair can do it without any support. Some players like Tilse need support in both. Which one's are tge most costly to keeping the side balanced?

After today I can no longer defend Kieran "can't pass or catch" Dixon. Not even Championship quality. Tilse has found his level against a Championship side however.

There is s point when just having speed isn't enough mantallato is slow really for a winger but offers so much more to a team

dixon is rubbish end of. The odd wonder try out of nothing doesn't make up for error after error every week.

That taulapapa you almost signed just scored a good try for fev. Looks a lot better than dixon

The fact that most of the Oldham players will be back to work on Monday makes it even better.

So leaving aside our other players, what will today's shocker of a performance from Dixon do for his future prospects. Will he even get a 2 From Westmoreland in the HDM this week?

I don't think Dixon can be singled out today bad as he was he wasn't alone

I like him a lot and I've defended him to a ridiculously overboard level but I can't stick up for him today.

I do still think he's a scapegoat though, all the outside backs were starved of possession today, unfortunately when the ball got to Dixon he either dropped it or just wanged it wherever.

Mantellato doesn't have the speed and elusiveness that Dixon has, but he has so much more to his game and doesn't concede more tries than he scores ........When we signed Dixon I wanted so much for him to be the next Jason Robinson, but he has turned out to be the next Omari Caro .......A Championship player at best! .......Oh well, I guess Oakes is the next winger we will put our faith in! ........Come the end of the year, we need to offload Dixon because he will never amend his weaknesses .......He is a championship player at best .......So sad!

Fallen behind Wardill in the pecking order now. Not sure we'll see him in a Rovers shirt again.

Is he the first to be smoked out by Hudgell?

One to bin off next year.

Another player to fall by the waste side, could have done to be brought through a proper academy system, the world beaters of the London teams often fade away.

What is the 'waste side'?

Meant wayside predictive txt on me dog.

Cockney rhyming slang !! are you an east hull fc fan or an eastender fc fan, lol

The part of Hull we're advised to do our toilet business in?

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Some have done ok mate. Keep an eye on Denny Solomona. Mike McMeeken, and Matt Cook tomorrow.

He'd need good eyesight to see them from Wakefield.

Isn't Matt Cook from Bradford or Warrington, solomona is a new zelander mcmeeken is probably the only one from London academy, like I say not many London lads are world beaters.

Clubb Sargison Mc Scarsbrook

I was disappointed that Dixon didn't take the kicking responsibilities against Oldham, if he refused to do so (I'm not saying that he did refuse) then that should be his last game.
One complaint that I have of the club is that we take on players like Dixon and Cairo, who have potential, but we don't improve them. I wonder if we need more one to one coaching with some of the players.