Bringing Bateman back was always one of those decisions that made perfect sense in isolation but became much more dubious when you consider our past record with bringing back former players. He's one of the best back row forwards in the world at his best, but his situation has parallels with Sam Tom...

I think Shaun Wane got some things wrong in this tournament but ultimately a lot of the blame has to fall on the players for today's performances. Why wouldn't Wane stick with that side when they've performed pretty well up to that point. They'd shown what they were capable of and then didn't delive...

It will be a shame to lose Bateman as I think he's performed better than some suggest, but it's clear he's been nowhere near his best form. For me it puts him in exactly the same position that Sam Tomkins was in when he returned to Wigan. His form isn't good enough to justify a marquee salary so all...

But rugby league is not about the season is it - it’s about 3/4 games playing the better teams when they turn up - you can put 100 points on weak teams throughout the year it means nothing when it’s crunch time I only understand the salary cap argument when it’s for a non pivot position - I don’t k...

I think that’s a good post Eagle however there are certain things that I find issue with So going to the value of Powell and the coaches pick him - but wane hasn’t as soon as he is away from the wigan setting - in fact he’s picked 5 British hookers ahead of him - even in a game when his hookers dro...

It's our forwards that have really made the difference at reserve level this year. As mentioned above, Hill, Brannan and Bibby have been outstanding and have been a nightmare for defences to deal with all year. Halsall was man of the match and he looked a cut above the rest. We really need to get hi...

I'd be more than happy if we just went into next season with the intention to balance our options at hooker and play with one on the bench (an actual hooker, not Shorrocks), or at the very least go into the game with the intention of moving another player into the hooking role like we did with Cust ...

Powell wasn't the reason we lost, and I thought he played reasonably well considering he was returning from injury, but 'reasonably well considering' doesn't quite cut it in a must win playoff game. It took him quite a while to get up to speed and in the meantime we'd been dominating possession and ...

It was frustrating to watch us be so dominant in that first half and be unable to break Leeds down. They obviously deserve huge credit for their defence and it's defence that wins you these games. We can look to the players we had missing and for sure Farrell was a huge loss, Cust at his best would ...

The only sensible approach is to rest pretty much the whole team on Monday and pick our strongest team against Catalans. Backing up after only 2 days off after a derby is a ridiculous situation and if it were up to me the only players who played against Saints that might feature on Monday are the pl...