Stayed to watched the reserves to try and cheer myself up with the fact that the future is bright, unfortunately we got thrashed! Defence was a big problem with the reserves as well and Wigan made easy yards all match.



I thought Hyde played ok in attack in a beaten team but looked a little suspect in defence. He's probably not quite ready for SL on that showing at least. Rudd was big and powerful with quite a turn of pace for a big man, however his defence looked a little suspect. He was blowing a bit towards the end too so a bit of work there as well. But he looks like he could be a handful if those area's can be improved.

Think most of our better prospects are in the academy judging by that performance!



Crossley looked like he could do with losing a bit of flab and improving his leg strength. He reminded me of Paul Grayshon at times and that's not good!

Hyde looked good again, although if he were to play in SL his defence may need a little tweaking. It doesn't stop Sykes being selected at 6 though.



Not criticizing Sykes by the way, he had a great game today 100% effort and for once his tackling looked good.

Nothing to suggest that he would make it in League IMO.

All the key men in the Wigan side are th same age as our u18's that's the 7, 9 and 13 also the Wigan stand off Mark Flanagan is another Bulls junior.

Bit early to say I would suggest, he looks to have the strength and pace to make it. So the raw materials are there, whether he can improve the defence and fitness we shall have to wait and see.

Shouldn't have let go?

Who is their scrum half?

Joe Mellor.

this doesnt excite me one bit i worried he be worse than the rest of them which is hard i know

I hope he makes it. SL is desperately short of even half decent British threequarters - if the guy makes a fist of it we could do far worse than getting similar players from Yawnion over. League's never going to attract the top Union players again as the money flow's the opposite to what it once was, but there must be a fair few outside backs in Union who for whatever reason are drifting in that game but could make a go of league.



From what I remember of Union wingers converting in the past, the main issues are the PTB (I think Jim Fallon took about a year to get up to speed with that!) and stamina - the number of kick returns and other involvement will generally be far higher in league. Other than that the basics are pretty much the same.