The players on the field cannot be bothered. The amount of injuries we've had has actually given rests to way more people in the squad than say Wigan who I guarantee have had way less rest per player all season compared to us. 

It was an inflated crowd with the offers on along side the many white envelopes. Not a true reflection.

Yeah I only noticed one defensive boo boo from him - flying out of the line and missing Flanaghan for Huddersfield's 2nd try.

With Tai I think people get charmed by the occasional bit hit.  Danny Lima had the same effect with the occasional spectacular barnstorming run but neither can disguise the defects across their games.  If you asked people to name all the SL centres Tai is better than, I suspect you'd be hard pushed to name many.  I'd like a centre (particularly a quota player) to possess real pace, an ability to read the opposition attack and a top passing game.  I'm also aware that we can't have superstars in all positions but apart from Wrench (who looked lively when we eventually got the ball to him) and the injured Lindop, we have a real lack of pace at centre.  Next season I'd like to see Wrench and Lindop at 3 and 4 with King and an Academy player as back up.

Can you believe it's 2 decades since Danny Lima played for us!

He arrived relatively unknown and became popular because his first few weeks he played well including on televised games, running in hard. After that he was so-so, but he did get the crowd going when he came off the bench.


Chris Leikvoll, who signed at the same time, had the opposite story. He started slowly and looked slow and lumbering and there was some quote in the press about how the coaches expected him to improve when the pitches got harder. We thought here we go, he's one of 'those' kind of signings. But over time he won respect and his handling was very good for a front rower, he was a good offloader.

This is something I used to feel about Radford towards the end of his Hull tenure. He was a good motivator, but when it was going wrong he always seemed to think that the solution was to roll up your sleeves and work a bit harder, and it's often more complicated than that. In 2016/17 there was enough quality and experience in the playing group for it to not matter. They knew when things were going wrong and they solved it. But when that team started to break up he didn't have the coaching nouse to get it back on track. I think that is probably where Burgess is right now.