I’d love Pearson to sack off Smith,Gene,Grix,Donaldson,Clark.



Players to go Carlos (welfare officer for players)Okunbar and Hoy…harsh on hoy but gives us a big chunk and 3 quota spots but alas it won’t happen.

In an ideal world I'd get rid of about a dozen players (obviously that's not feasible) but Hoy wouldn't be one of them actually. If nothing else I think he genuinely does give his best effort every game, and hes one of the few players we have with a bit of pace and x factor about him. When Walker is fit Hoy would be my 6 without a shadow of a doubt.

That's not far off the team I'd like to see tbh. Although I'd swap Lane and Balmforth around. Let Balmforth play his proper position spelling with Brown, and whilst I'm not a Lane fan I can't knock his effort this season, so he will do at 13 for now.

It still was a yellow though, he should have been on best behaviour all game to make amends, not putting risky late shots in on players and now the end result is another sin bin and potential suspension

Oh I know…was just thinking about cap and quotas that’s all…how about Hoy as captain??

Well the radiator would make a better captain than Houghton, so Hoy works for me.

He was already committed to the tackle, it was a genuine tackle. If he was on his best behaviour he doesn’t attempt tackles like that. People would then be calling him lazy, how does he win?

The tackle occurred after the ball was released and the player was heavily hit causing a whiplash effect. Agree with the decision to give him a yellow card and he will be lucky to avoid another short spell on the sideline.

Game not on TV is it?



So no VR, that should reduce the card count.

It was half a second late & he didn’t have visual on the ball. It’s was no different to the Mata’utia hit on Bentley which was much later & left him injured. One was just a penalty one was a card. Not surprising which one got which punishment.

Time to stop using Nu Brown as a 7.Either Morgan Smith plays there or give young Jack Charles a few games.Brown has to be at 9 and nowhere else,rotating with Houghton against the Giants (if he’s fit).Carlos T will be out again,so it will be Cam Scott in the centres with Sutcliffe.Pele probably end up with another ban!

the whole scenario of brown at 7 as been ludicrous,as others have said on saturday after flogging houghton yet again he went off with fatigue in the leg{what a surprise}we had a new zealand hooker at 7 balmforth not even in the squad,so we end up with our loose foreward lane playing at 9.a joke.

Nu brown and Pele up before the MRP again...

Pele one match Nu free to play. Nu 9 for me Houghton off the bench and Charles in nothing to lose

When Nu was at 9, Vs Warrington, we looked threatening with the ball, hope you are right.

Got a sneaky feeling, Houghton will be 9..

Pele and Brown have the exact same details of charge yet one gets grade C and 1 watch ban, other gets grade B and just a fine.

There's been far later hits this year than Pele's that have only been given as a penalty.

4 players charged this week and 2 are Hull's. 100% our discipline has been poor but how is it so much worse than what other players are doing that we have multiple players charged every single week?

Unless injured there is absolutely no chance of Brown at 9.

Quite impressive for a team.with terrible discipline to sign more forwards with terrible discipline.

The organisation from the play the ball is a massive problem thats been going on a few years now, sick of seeing us making it up as we go along and passing to props on the 5th. Whos meant to be in charge of organising who recieves the ball? As its absolute chaos, surely Houghtons got some major accountability for this.



The more i read the more our club jus seems more and more like an amateur holiday camp.



Laid back tony yeah lads just make it up.as you go. As thats actually what im seeing.

Must be our best week yet, only one match ban picked up.



Pele clearly a marked man now, a bit like Watts.

Id go exactly as you said, lane has been better, only thing that swayed me was theyve been playing Balmforth at loose forward in the ressies.



But id have him as interchange hooker all day long.

Will do the same as you wait to see the team and if its the same e head scratching setup i wont bother

I said pre season, that our only hope was the 4 overseas players signed would go better than expected.



Fair to say its quite the opposite.

Ese'ese and Brown looked decent signings with the caveat that it was assumed that Brown would switch to hooker when Trueman was back. We shall see.



Pele and Okunbor were risks and five games in neither look to have not come off. I'd be surprised if either are still here next season.

Still early days and that's all I'm clinging to. Ese'ese looks pretty decent to me and I think there's a player in Brown if we can get him at hooker instead of flogging Houghton for 80 minutes every game (wishful thinking I know!). Pele's a difficult one because there's size and power there that could be used to good effect but there's work to be done there to channel it right and he does appear to be a marked man (is two games played and two suspensions a new record?). Really not sure what to make of Okunbor at the moment as it looks like he is struggling to settle into the team at the moment.

Okunbor seems a really quiet individual, which when he is over here on his own as he's single, it must be hard to get used to being a different country. I don't know if it is worth putting him back on the wing - his career long position, to get him some confidence?