I watch other teams and at various stages of the game its possible to see what they are doing or trying to do.

As an example -Salford hit the Warrington right repeatedly and if the centre and half back defending were drawn in went short side again because Warrington were a defender short. They also compressed the defence because Warrington had no desire or plan to go outside the middle of the field. In defence Salford turtled the Warrington players easily and that meant slow PTBs

Cas looked good last week- running in twos and threes isolating the weaker defenders and running big guys against them who would then try and offload. Once the offload came the aim was to get the ball away from that area asap - because defenders scramble to that area

So whats the Warrington game plan been this year. Against Brisbane it was to use 13 players - vary the points of attack - hit the outside channels and spread the ball where possible. That worked

In other games its been - take the ball in...run in ones...stay in the middle channel then hoof and hope. Any offloads and the supporting player stays in the middle where the defence is. I cant recall a decent switch or short side play this year. It means the forwards look battered and bored - its not enjoyable to play and the backs look unused and bored. There is also a skills deficit....

Take the shackles off, Tony. Lets see some rugby

Cas also compressed their defence against us leaving some big big spaces on the flank. Either that was decided pre match, or they adjusted tactics during the game. It seems strange when we have our best forward out and another one with a broken hand, to focus our attack through the middle. It will be interesting to see what we do against Wigan who have a better pack than we do, but perhaps question marks in the three quarters. Certainly their defence is pretty good, so we will need to stretch their line (or hope some short / high kicks to the in goal area come off). I fancy for this match we will play it very high tempo as though it were a final..... and for a couple of the players it may well be a final of sorts.

Not just attack that's narrow. Jon Wells and Luke Gail discussed this after the Cas game. It was a move they had planned after watching us on video. Following a kick off, we chase and compress defence leaving 1/3 of the pitch open. Cas span the ball out and scored a cracking 70 yarder.

One of the reasons I rate Powell he sets their strategy dependant on who they are playing

We just try to blow teams away early against every team that we play, if it works we can look like world beaters however if the team we face doesn't roll over we rarely have the stomach for an arm wrestle of have any players with the intelligence to change things up mid game.

If ts is still sticking to the play what's in front of you maybe someone should remind him we don't have briers monas n hodgson anymore !!

Yes it was clear that Powell and the team study the opposition and work on set moves to expose weaknesses. Whereas we "play what we see".

Hmmmm, if we play what we see then there's a good few of our players who need an eye test based on results this far!

If you don't repeatedly attack our wingers, who have one first team game between them, I'll be very surprised!

ha...ha... not once ...honestly not once did we do this ...
I dont remember us even getting a repeat set...........

we are the worst superleague side since the Halifax Blue sox..........