All the talk at the start of the week was the disciplinary hearing and Aaron Murphy being found not guilty and Scott Grix handed a one-game ban in the wake of the Magic Weekend game against Catalans. What are your overall feelings on it all?

For a start, I think there was debate over everything.

In the case of Grixy, I think we had to plead guilty as we couldn’t deny he made contact with the head.

We did try to prove it was an accident and that he was trying to catch Escare and trap him in the in-goal area.

But Joe Wardle had a fair amount to say in how we ended up with this outcome by his contribution to the challenge.

Some of what the disciplinary panel had to say about the incident were valid and some weren’t, in my opinion.

But it is what it is, and we’ve just had to accept the ruling and get on with it.

In the case of Murph, because he’s not going to play through injury for a couple of weeks, I suppose we could have accepted the Early Guilty Plea, taken the ban and lived with it.

However, I wanted to prove a point.

The question that needed answering was ‘how can a player be suspended when his opponent is falling to the floor when a tackle is being attempted to be made on him?’

Thankfully, the disciplinary committee held the same view as me over this one.

But at the same time, the match review panel should take a good look at itself in regards to the initial gradings it’s handing out at the moment and the amount of people who are subsequently being found not guilty.

The 22-22 draw against Catalans obviously came at a high cost, with Grix suspended and Ferres and Murphy ruled out through injury. How big a blow is this ahead of Wigan?

It’s clearly far from ideal and you could say it’s backs-to-the-wall at home to Wigan on Sunday.

But this is sort of the situation I expect everyone at the club to relish.

Instead of dwelling on the absences, it’s a case of everyone stepping up and showing everybody what they’re made of.

This is a week when our attitude needs to be spot-on and make sure we get all the small things right.

I know if we do get it right, effort-wise – something that wasn’t quite there last week, then we’ll be okay.

We’ve already been out on the field this week, rotated a few people around and looked at them in different positions, and we’ll pick a team on the back of what we’ve seen.

And we know it’ll be one that can get the job done.

But even though the mood is still positive, how disappointed was everyone at the news Brett Ferres is facing another month on the sidelines with a knee injury?

Obviously, it’s been a very unfortunate year for Brett and we’re all gutted for him.

After his couple of months ruled out with his ankle injury, he made a positive return for us the other week.

He played on the edge at Leeds and when he played in the middle at loose-forward at Cas the other week he was the best player by a country mile.

He then started the game strongly against Catalans before picking up his injury.

All being well, the surgery goes according to plan and we’ll see him back within a month.

If that’s the case, then we could have a fully-fit Brett Ferres leading us into the play-offs, because we’d rather have him missing now than then.

Finally, you’re back at the John Smith’s Stadium after five weeks on the road. How much are you looking forward to being back home?

Yes we are.

I think our away fans have really enjoyed their recent trips, because they’ve been great, and I’d like to think this can start to be replicated at home.

Unfortunately, I had my grumpy head on after our game up at Newcastle on Sunday, because I wasn’t happy with our performance.

But I still should have taken the time to pay tribute to our fans who made the trip. They were again fantastic.

If we could re-create this sort of atmosphere at home it would the icing on the cake.