<t>What is he being accused of here? Do we spend up to the limit of the salary cap? If not, that's a disgrace. If so, is the issue that the money is unevenly distributed? Isn't that largely down to Sam taking too much money? Is it his suggestion that the cap should stay the same? I can see that is s...

<t>Fair comment. As good as 2011 with a vastly inferior squad, though.<br/> I will of course have to retract my suggestion that Wane will ensure we make a better fist of the play offs than Maguire's start studded farewell tour. Not a good week for optimists, though for us there's always next week. <...

<t>He does himself no favours with comments like that, but I set no store by what any coach says in public. We don't know what Wane and the coaching staff are thinking. There is a strong collective brains trust there. <br/> Given that we only won the cup 2 weeks ago, it seems a bit strong for people...

<t>It seems to me that our problems stem from the inability of the forwards to hold their own/dominate. As we were constantly on the back foot in attack and defence we looked worse with or without the ball. Teams lose, half backs look poor and spreading the ball wide won't ever work in those circums...

<t>Given how well Flower and Dudson have slotted in, I'd have thought we can expect big things from Powell. He is after one of the top players among a very large group, and has been a professional for most/all of his career. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain from playing him on Thursday...

Dave - I agree 100% with your post, save only that we will play once at home in the play offs - either week 2, or as we hope, week 3.

<t>In a way, I don't care who we field on Thursday, as it doesn't matter we win or lose, but I wanted to check something with the more attentive souls on here.<br/> Can Wane be believed when he makes statements like this? I might be wrong but haven't there been lots of occasions over the last 3 mont...

<t>1) I was making the point that I am confident we will score more than 16 points in drier conditions. Even if FC had scored our margin of victory was 16 points, which is a gulf in a big game. I am not Mystic Meg, but I can see far more reason to be optimistic than not with the way the season is pa...

<t>We will do better this year. <br/> We scored 16 points in abominable conditions. Had the conditions been better we would clearly have scored a lot more points. 22 points will win virtually every play off game against ten likely opposition we will face. Clearly we have 22 points in us. <br/> We ha...

<t>This will be the same Andy Farrell who took his last pay packets getting fit enough to leave us for union when we needed him more than ever, and is now a union recruiter? What was his team talk - "play well and you can get to Sarries?". <br/> It's an interesting idea, but what inspiration will la...