I've just gone through the Sky game again on fast-forward checking the substitutions, by my reckoning Hill played 71 minutes? Not sure quite how accurate it was, the Sky team did miss Bailey coming on for Cox early in the second half, but ~70 minutes is just incredible.

It'd be ideal if he did that v Widnes next week and sat out Hull KR.

I really don't think he wants a rest and we still need him to play every game the way we're playing at the minute.

Last three games were against 5th, 3rd and top. We got 4 points out of 6. No one else seems to want to break into the top 4, so we are looking at a single game in late September to get us to OT. That's how precarious the new system is. Hull could easily be four or six points clear come the end of the Super 8s, but could just as easily lose that semi final against the 4th place team.

I would agree with this, he has really looked knackered at times. Trouble is, the competition has become a lot tighter this year. Gone are the days when we played an easy team and could field a few youngsters. Morgan Smith is the only youngster to debut this year when Sandow was injured. And Toby King, Jack Johnson, Joe Philbin, Sam Wilde and Declan Patton have only made 12 appearances between them. Perhaps we will get in a good position in the top 4 whereby we can give him a rest, but my suspicions are that he will get flogged all year.

We can rest players after next week.

So long as we are in the four. We've blew the hub cap with some poor fairly recent defeats.

We can't afford a rest on Hill.

Sims is going to get a rest this week and perhaps nex too whether he needs one or not.



Selfishly and to upset the purists again, I'll be very happy to see Bailey and Hill pair up together again. The best go forward we seen all season vs Saints.

The forwards battered them like I've never seen.



Sims just doesn't do if for me as a starting prop.