Wouldn't mind seeing that team either. Koppy deserves to start though imo.

I know but we need impact off the bench. No good stacking it with kids. My team is the perfect mix of Youth and Exp. Not a worldclass side but solid enough for rest of season imo.

I have to agree with yourself and Ewwenorfolk in that there is no point at all in playing Ah Van and Herbert now we 110% know that they are leaving the club.

Did you watch u20s Mick?



O'brien, Bateman and Finigan all looked useful.

Are Johns always been good





Before Finigan made his debut I said to my cousin from now on thats my man. And boom 4 tries in 2 games

This game against KR is huge in terms of us making the 8, and you want to play southernwood and finnigan? Madness.

By all means bring in Royston and Crookes for Sykes and Ah Van, but let's not get too drastic just yet.



If we lose to Rovers then yes, I see no reason why we can't give some first team experience to some players in the matches against Crusaders and Wakey, but as of right now our season still has some slight glimmer of hope left.

Any coach that threw in the towel now should be shot. Realistically the season is over now, anyone that watched yesterday knows the season is over now, most of the players appear to think that the season is over now, but the coach simply cannot encourage that mentality to take hold.

Er, we shot the playoffs when we lost to Hull. That was end of season. If you just accept that we are out of the playoffs, which we comprehensively are, your life will less stressful.

Daft as it sounds, we aren't 'out of the play offs', as can be observed by looking a league table



If we win three of our remaining four games, which is not exactly unfeasible as we can beat Hull KR, Crusaders and Wakefield, then we'll be on 24 points. That might just conceivably be enough.



It's unlikely, but against all reasonable sense of what's deserved, we could still make the 8. For that reason alone, you can't expect Mick Potter to come out now and write off the season



Of course, if we lose against HKR then its officially all over

We'll win them all, you watch - and still miss out because one of the "top" teams will mysteriously lose to Crusaders or Quins last day of the regular season.



Or we'll go to Wakey having just to win to make the 8, and lose.



Nailed on.

Unfortunately for us, you need to string more than one good performance together to make an impression in the play offs. Perhaps scraping into the play offs might feel like we've made progress. That feeling might not last long though after we're on the ending of a hammering in the 1st round though.



Perhaps Potter will now give a few players a chance to impress for a new deal. If he picks the likes of Ah Van again over Royston/Crookes/Ainscough I will begin to question his judgement to be honest. He wasn't alone missing the tackles, he was in good company on Sunday. But can you say he put in the same effort as Raynor? Not even near and by the looks he was getting off his own teammates yesterday they undoubtedly agree. Good job we have a 2 week break because I am thoroughly p!ssed off after that 'effort' from the team.

Oh for a first round hammering though