The solution is somebody needs to punch Micky before the match. He was awesome after that confrontation, he smashed everything that moved





P.S Baggsy not me doing it

McIllorum seems to be getting a lot of praise on here this morning, and so he should. Truth is he performed exactly the same as that in the first half of the Huddersfield game. He blatently got the rough end of the stick by a lot of fans looking for someone to blame for our lack of ideas in attack, and him being asked to do a very long stint.



He's a completely different style of hooker to Tommy, but we would certainly miss him if he is was not there. No other player at the club has the engine to work like he does, in one of the most demanding positions on the park.



The key is to manage both hookers appropriately depending on the opposition.

He didn't. He played much better last night. He still wasn't deadly in attack but the pack was much more physical and ran the ball in harder. He made errors defensively against Huddersfield whereas against Leeds he was spot on every time.

He saved our bacon quite a few times last night with last ditch tackles. I might criticize Macca's attacking ability but I'd never question his defensive ability. Last week was just an all round lax effort from all involved.

Trust me he was. At half time I actually said to the guys next to me he was world class. Maybe a bit OTT, but it seems when the half-backs and outside backs don't take advantage of the work he puts in to get us on the front foot we blame him.



I bet a lot of people forget that last week we dominated the giants territorially for much of the first half. MM had a massive hand in that. Just a shame we can't watch it back, or access his stats.

His defence dropping off clearly stems from the end of his long stint when he was blowing up. He even made the odd error like that last night, arounf the time Leeds scored, but we had run him into the ground.

He wasn't. The team needed more than McIlorum could offer against Huddersfield. That was partly down to the fact that the whole team was playing pretty badly but if you're playing in the most influential position on the field you need to play consistently well in both attack and defence. Against Huddersfield the pace around the ruck wasn't there while it was when Leuluai moved to hooker.



More often than not in the past McIlorum's impact on the team going forward hasn't been enough. Against Leeds he was far more lively and was playing with more aggression.

Micky Mac has a new fan after last night. Even though my missus has been coming to matches on and off for a couple of years she last night 'realised' that MM was a deadspit for an actor called Channing Tatum (GI Joe).

Next week I'd go:



FB 1 Sam

RW 2 Charnley

RC 3 Goulding

LC 26 Hughes

LW 5 Richards

SO 6 Finch

SH 7 Leuluai

P 21 Lauaki

H 9 McIlorum

P 10 Mossop

SR 11 Hansen

SR 16 Farrell

LF 13 O'Loughlin



S 12 Hock

S 14 Lima

S 23 Flower

S 27 Russell



I'd like to see how we would go with Russell at full back and Sam in the halves, give it a go once the game has settled down a bit.

next week i'd go with the same team that beat Leeds it's not rocket science

Farrell will come back in I'd have thought.

Spencer for Faz straight swap. I don't know why Hock would drop to bench as I thought he was one of our best players on Saturday.