Agree about Westwood, we do miss him. We also miss the BMM we purchased from Salford where he played substantial minutes and achieved a place in the SL team of the year. Aku does look encouraging though.
To have any chance of success this season, our forwards need to be able to gain control of the ruck area. Without this, we haven't really got a chance as we lack the creativity to unlock defences like Hull and Saints - we don't really have any alternative attacking structures (as was mentioned on here a month or two back) aside from plan A and the capitalization on our opponents errors.
(This post also follows on from the SP thread so I'll post it on there as well)