With Smithies gone and now Powell, that's a lot of tackles per game to make up. Who do we think will be doing it in their absence?

So who's going to be next for the know nowt, class free, so called 'fans' now that Sam's gone? I always thought this sort of thing is what showed Wigan fans at their best........not.

Another lump of a lad. How are they going to feed them all? Good time to own a pie shop in Wiggin I reckon.

Always a mistake to give power to those who seem temperamentally unsuited for it, especially when their actions seem to have no consequences for themselves. To put it another way, Paul Cullen strikes again. We should buy him a bunch of flowers or something.

I guess its not the job of a modern loose forward, in Super League anyway, but I think if Morgan Smithies could learn some ball handling expertise, he'd be a truly tremendous player. Perhaps when he gets a bit older and his engine starts to leak a bit of oil.

Well done for drawing everybody's attention to it.

Not even a mention of Abbas Miski.

Same here. He's a naturally gifted rugby league player.

Paul Grayson is a former England RU player. An RU insider but never afraid to say what he thought, relatively speaking, and with a rep for being a bit outspoken. Witness some of his stints as a commentator and punter on TV and in the press. On that basis, it might be interesting, given the pasting t...

So what do we think about Mr Byrne after his performance against Catalans? A fluke, Just luck, needs to do it every week etc?