Tom was great last week. But he is still very young and is sometimes prone to trying to force something. The conditions and occasion I think dictated a safety first approach. Watching the game I was thinking we ought to have put some grubber kicks in rather than the power play all the time, but in hindsight i can see why we didn't and why i am not the coach - rather we make them start their sets on their own line than give them 7 tackles from the 20.

BTW we do know - his team selection and tactics worked - and it also wound you up - bonus!

Find it hard to believe the Shay is wider-maybe the pich is 76 yds but not lined to it's maximum particularly at the east stand end ?

Not sure just went off Wikipedia.

Well that was one hell of a weekend hence the delay in my thoughts on the game. I was watching the game from behind where the our league cameras was and when Lachlan caught what was a difficult ball to take then managed to break free to score i pretty much lost my voice from that point on. It was by our standards a very disciplined performance yes there was mistake but unlike our league form we backed that up with strong defence and ground out a very important win. For me that was one of our best team performances for some time we might of not been at our free flowing best in attack with it being wet and windy but from 1-17 the effort was there for the full 80. I do think we will need our attack to ask a bit more of Batleys defence in the final as i have said before we are more than capable of doing that and this game as all the makings of a cracking final.

Aye, Lachlan gets some spectacular tries but some have to be worked for like Saturday's. He did really well to get up for the ball, get control then race away down the pitch. Cracking! Long may it continue. Rat & Ratchet shuddersfield. White Rat 4.0% Mmm!