Whilst I agree McNamara & Dwyer aren’t good enough we have bigger problems, the top teams are ruthless and if players aren’t good enough they make decisions quickly.


We have so much dead cap space it’s a joke, if you look at our squad outside the top 17 the most are inexperienced young players who are rarely going to get a game. 


I know the clubs strategy is to go with youth but the likes of Wilde, Brown, Rothwell, Derbyshire aren’t going to get a game, some like Towse and Brough have been unfortunate and are probably more for 2026. We sign a young prop from Castleford (Brad Martin) who has 40 SL appearances but hasn’t played a competitive game for us and has been loaned out for half of his 2 year deal even when we are short of props.


Pene is never going to make it, he is just like Nakabuwai and Seumanufagai as the quota forward we always seem to sign that just have any aggression, other teams would have already paid him off to improve the team as you can’t have quota players not playing and knowing we need a HB so much.


We have had Halfback problems for 2 years and never addressed them, Lachlan Lam looks like he’s sulking as he can’t get an NRL team, he’s asking for a fortune and his form is diabolical, if his dad wasn’t coach he would have been dropped.


People may not like my opinion but I don’t think our recruitment and retention has been as good as made out.


Just have a look at our team from the GF in 2022, we had Inu, Macdonald and Ferguson in our backs, I know the quota rule is different but we had quality players in important positions.


We have a quality pack now but as you can clearly see we just can’t score enough with our back line and halves.


I think we are short another second row, a halfback, a centre and a ball playing loose forward.

I'd be in for a return of Mellor and Stone, as much as I like Shorrocks I don't think he offers that much that we've haven't got already.


It will always be a shame that Inu is 38, need him just for goal kicking alone.


I seem to recall most on here suggesting that this year would be a transition year...well here we are, transitioning.  I'm comfortable in saying we probably over performed in the last two years, possibly helped by many other teams being more rotten and also bang average than usual but we are where we are.


The way the league looks now, Wigan and KR are way ahead of the rest of the league on-field, that we still sit in the middle bunch can't be that bad.


It simply would appear that Asiata was really key to our whole team performance but than again we ground out results last year when he was injured so it may well be an attitude thing with the squad.

The half back problems will persist until we accept that Lachlan Lam isn’t an organiser. Nor does he have a rugby brain, but he has a lot of skill and would be lethal if he has an organiser to play off.

I’ve some sympathy for the recruitment, given the need to literally make up numbers to establish a reserves. But the nonsense with not dealing with Sam Ayoub makes matters worse, and my biggest fear is that the owner is closer to the playing side since Chester left. And that never ends well.


Doubt we’ll free up a quota spot while Pene is injured but he needs paying off next year. 

The half back problems will persist until we accept that Lachlan Lam isn’t an organiser. Nor does he have a rugby brain, but he has a lot of skill and would be lethal if he has an organiser to play off.

I’ve some sympathy for the recruitment, given the need to literally make up numbers to establish a reserves. But the nonsense with not dealing with Sam Ayoub makes matters worse, and my biggest fear is that the owner is closer to the playing side since Chester left. And that never ends well.


Doubt we’ll free up a quota spot while Pene is injured but he needs paying off next year. 

Our quota and cap space and missing out on Sneyd will pay off big time next season when Mary Fowler wins the romantic tussle and her boyfriend has to relocate to the UK in search of a rugby league job.