That's the nature of the beast, surely?

Lose your best player, and the team is weaker.

Losing 3 or 4 players in a decent squad should't have a significant impact.

Lose 7 or 8 and it's inevitable that the team isn't as strong as it could have been.

You can't have like for like replacements in every position, finances/cap limits prevent it.

Bit gloom & doomy ??

Think it will be close but we still have enough to win this.

IF we don't, hard to fancy us to beat Saints at Home or Wakey away - 3 defeats will end top 4 hopes - of those 3 games, Thursday should be the best chance to win, squad unlikely to recover much, if at all b4 those 3 games done.

Come on u UUUULLLLLLAAAAAAHHH.

Will we see a self fulfilling prophecy of defeat and usual hard luck stories or a gallant win ?
Surely a win - surely

With Green back the from row looks a lot better. If we can get a game out of Hadley without injury then we aren't that weak in the back row. I reckon we've got enough to give the Giants a game.

Our backs though. We line up differently every week so it's hard to know how they'll go. Tuimavave is due a performance but who is his winger gonna be?

Miloudi
Faramaio
Scott
Tuimavave
Logan
Connor
Kelly
Taylor
Houghton
Green
Minichello
Downs
Hadley/Washbrook
Subs
Fash
Matongo
Paea
Washbrook/Lane
Litten and Lane to miss out

So we have out:

shaul
griffin
sneyd
talanoa
bowden
manu
westerman

Who would all be playing if we were fully fit

Plus abdul who would be playing if he were fit today

I can't even remember the last time we had a near fit squad. wigan away in the opening game?

absolutely, when fit we win stuff, when missing half + our first team we still make a game of it.

Thats the team I'd pick too, having Green back is a big plus after losing Sika through suspension.

Definitely a game we are capable of winning even with the injuries as long as we ensure that we keep our discipline and don't let Huddersfield spoiling tactics slow us down to stifle us

We're currently averaging just over 4 players missing from the "best" 17 for every game this season.

They've missed 90 games already.

and still solid top 8, damn that Radford and lack of progressing youth!