Connor will end up taking the place of Naughton this season as a reserve.
Trying to use him as a bench player week after week wont work.
There will have to be a shake up of our bench next week as Watts will get a ban and Ellis probably doubtful.
Dont know whats happened to Fash as he seemed to be the next prop in line but Masi looks to have taken over as the no 1 reserve prop so he may get a game next week along with Turgut.

Connor will be miles more than that...A proper player that lad
Terrible evening for him....like many. Bad 1st half then got pretty lively for a while2nd. Just a bad day at the office for him
But the way he presents the ball for those around him the positions he gets into
I loved how a couple of times he made errors and came back with a good play or hit. Defo mentally tough. The attemptied 40.20 was absolutely the wrong play at that time. But you had to have massive balls to go for it then. I like that in a player. Bad day yesterday but he'll be an asset and a good player for us

A very frustrating game and a poor performance. Shades of the bad points of last season with ill discipline and an over reliance on Sneyd and Ellis. Losing Ellis knocked us off our stride and we had no spark in attack.

Early days and lets remember we lost two of our first three home games last season.

On that display last night and your pre season games, your so called big misters might cop for a revenge come August.

Only your third post since 2014?

I really don't think we'll be meeting in the middle eights if that's what you are alluding to.

Didn't think we were on it at all and feared the worst when our captain departed.
Sika gave it a good shot and enjoyed Scotty T going a hunting.
2 points gone south that we won't be getting back.

What so now people can't discuss or debate a disappointing defeat as it's viewed as being negative?

There's no call for players or coaches heads just people picking the bones out of a poor match.

What's the issue?
There's been no so called moths on here.
Just disappointed fans from a game we could have won with better discipline and control.

Read the posts again.

Connor isn't a stand off? Made some mistakes but thought he did ok personally. Timing in attack was off all round so too early to jump to that conclusion. Kelly will be stand off so doubt Connor has had much time to gel and get used to each other's play.

Underwhelmed by Griffin and he can't tackle? Again thought he did a decent job and made some good tackles on Inu. He won't come up against much bigger and better centres than him this season. Talanoa`s positioning was off a couple of times in attack which made Griffin look worse.

Confident all these things will improve as the season progresses and weather improves.

Looking at the stats, did well to only get beat by 2, as dominated in all areas, errors and discipline as expected let us down, would love to know our completion rate.

Massive shout out to Houghton, 67 tackles!!! Thought him, Manu and Carlos were the only players to come out with any credit.

On to the next game and not a lot to change yet, obviously bring in Kelly, but really not sure what to do with Connor, showed flashes last night, but don't like having him on the bench, to write him and Griffin off after one game is very naive, thought the 40/20 was the right decision just poorly executed.

Strangely Shaul and Sneyd must up their games (Sneyd has to improve his creativity for me, kicking is good, although not last night, but needs to do more with passing and running).

Bench of

Washy
Green
Connor
Bowden

If no injuries/suspensions

You would hope that Watts has had his punishment and the club and it just about cost us the game, his abs Taylor's penalties really cost us last night at crucial times.

Did he? I thought he was pretty much absent for good portions of last season. To be fair though he was played out of position.