Excellent game to watch as a neutral. Thought the Sheffield pack dominated for the first hour, but Watene and Wrench turned up all of a sudden to give a bit of a platform for Penky and Royston to work from and it was all one-way traffic from then, though I thought Sheffield showed some absolutely immense defending for their line. Might have been very different had Worrincy not taken that interception and it had remained 0-12 for a while longer.

Miles more enjoyable than the rubbish I endured at Elland Road afterwards though.

Its a results business

Same for both sides, mate. Sheffield just adapted better for most of the game.



Agree with most of what you say, but I doubt they will be nothing without Aston. Nothing is, perhaps, the wrong choice of word.

hopefully the last 20 mins can be built upon going into the next game. what was the official attendance?

2100 ish from faded memory.

eh?

He's been out for a while, and still getting his head back into the game.

rubbish, he wasn't fit and shouldn't have been in the 17

Hes got some match practice in now at least. Same for Black & Moloney.

I was impreseed with Wrenchy today, getting stuck in as usual,
and Penky looks a yard faster than last season

Match fitness is key for those retuning espeically with no reserves side. The run against Ovenden will help too.

Fantastic resuly by the lads. Yes we looked as though we were lacking a bit of cohesion but Sheffield are a couple of games down the line and we showed some true grit coming back when we were 14 points behind. When we scored to get to 8 points behind Black celebrated the try like we had won the game then went round all the players geeing them up. Thats when we said were not done in this game theres still a lot of fight left in us yet and boy was there.
We made a lot of basic errors but we know these grounds dont suit us and if we can dig results out in them circumstances we can be in a great position when the dry grounds finally arrive. Very impressed with our pack again today. I thought Maloney was immense in his stints although he did make one or two mistakes. His work ethic though is second to none. Said is just awesome, im not usually one for liking forwards(more a half back person myself lol) but could watch him play rugby all day. I thought he did well to hold his temper as long as he did all the cheap shots he took. Couldnt blame him for blowing up the tackle on him was straight on his jaw with intent and the guy should have walked. Good game by big Frank started this season like he did the last one, lets hope he can hold his form all the way through because he is a great asset playing like that. Penky, frustrating one minute brilliant the next, got a feeling hes going to have a good season. Black and Branigan pretty quiet but they will get better. Goddard got caught a few times in defense which was unusual but it looked like him that got there to pressure the guy chasing the kick where he knocked on over the line. Worrincy just awesome. Great read for the interception, a real 12 pointer. Work, work, work and made yards every time. Also cant remember him making an error which was the only thing that let him down last season. As for Royston, Try scoring machine. Right place at the right time, the try where he turned the fullback was pure quality. Was 26/1 for the top tryscorer may be worth a shout.
Overall good result against a very good Sheffield team that will take points off a lot of teams.

I think we could do with sorting out some sort of plan when we get onto an opponents line. We just seemed to lack knowledge of what we should do when we're there. Penky finally got that try near the end, but after how long on their line? All credit to Sheffield, their defence held up strong. But with players like Said, Frank and Maka, running onto a ball they could of gone over at short range surely?

They used to do it a couple years back with Frank, and nobody could seem to stop him.

Did i hear right yesterday when they annouced Bob Beswick as MOM, i thought he had a very poor game. The whole team was poor and lacked invention.

i can not believe we dropped bannister and cherryholme for larder
He was appauling, he hit the deck as soon as somebody breathed on him and ran away from making tackles he is past it.

We won but we need to be a hell of a lot better.