JK needs to sit down and decide where Grix plays because he ain't a utilty back. It isn't doing anyone any good shoving him here there or anywhere.

gleeson looks better on the wing than in the centre or jd could go on the wing and still take as much ball in as he does.weve too many halves on the field at once and theyve got to defend somewhere, you could see that we wernt getting in position when they were going to go wide but its acollective thing youve got to trust your inside man.

good point, grix is getting a lot of hammer but to be honest some of the blame lies squarely with the centres inside him, they have been diving in all over the place leaving him with 2 on 1.



same happpened to blanch too

Scott is struggling for form at the moment, he has been disappointing since returning from injury, although for a lot of Bradford's tries, he was not the only culprit for allowing Sykes way too much room. Come on Grixy, we know what you're capable of, please prove it against the pies next week.

I thought Grix was going to get some stick but the problem as I saw it was the sliding defence. Yes most of the time Bradford had two players outside Grix and we looked paper thin down that side but if Grix had stayed on the touchline then you could have driven a bus down the inside of him. Poor bloke he can not win whatever he does if the team does not slide out.

sorry for shouting but GRIX IS NOT A WINGER !! He doesnt have the pace or positional sense to play there... Get him at loose forward or best not play him to be honest... He needs to get playing in his correct position... Bradford ripped the poor lad to pieces !!

Now lets take stock of what you have said here because i think im about to commit blasphemy on this board and break one of RLFans 10 commandments.



Would it be fair to say John Kear is at fault for playing him out of position? Lets be honest Grix stands up and takes the shirt but at Hull the game changed when kear moved things about. The problem is though who considering the current injury situation does kear pick above Grix????? .





We need to recover from the current injury crisis i think before we can start criticize

This is not a panic statement but I feel we need to dip pur toe into the loan market for a month

worked with halley

Yep - but we aint got anybody else fit to be fair.



However, it is the defensive pattern that we have got well wrong. Grix was in the right position in relation to his inside man, yet on occassion had 2 men outside him - that is not his fault.



We were clearly found out against Wigan on one wing and against Bradford on the other - it is the pattern of play that we are not executing well enough - i.e. no one is reading what the opposition are doing - so when they slip the full-back + one other into the right side attack, we don't adjust, result - TRY.



Very very poor!

What about the week before? There seems to be some confusion about if Murphy was injured or dropped to the A team - did we ever clear this one up?

Grix was always on a loser. He was never going to beat his oppposite winger for pace and he was never going to win in a jump for a high ball. I don't remember a defensive howler by him, I just remember that he was being out-paced. If a winger gets outnumbered, the problem is usually further in, and I don't think you can actually blame the winger.



For me, Bradford just played better on the day. Their defence was superb in the second half, and they played with some zip in the first. I'm just hoping that we take the second half form into the weekend, although I suspect that Wigan will hit a purple patch now.