No mention of him being injured and Ross says he has been dropped. Clare was superb at FB against Salford. OK he let the ball bounce for Mellors try which was a killer, but why does Lowes see one mistake as enough to drop certain players, yet others seem untouchable and come back instantly when they are fit (Siejka, Walker etc). We clearly lack size, yet Walshaw and Flemming can't seem to get near the squad, yet he welcomes back Walker straight away who hasn't done anything all season and quite frankly was a disgrace against Fax. We are struggling with our bench as 10 minute a game prop, a young second rower and a back aren't big enough. Sidlow and Clough can do 60-70 minutes against Championship opposition, but at SL, they can't carry us and Lowes is unfairly relying on them to do this.
I think we will get battered and Lowes will come out "he trusts this group of players" etc which is all well and good, but a lot of the players have let us down too many times in crunch games.
I think we will beat Leigh, as we'll get a response and i feel the players will want to put a record straight in that game, but then we'll get found out big time in the million pound game.
If we lose against Leigh and fail to make 5th then Lowes has to go as he has won once out of all the crunch games, thats including losses to Featherstone, Fax, Sheffield etc.
