I have to say the strength of Makka showed in this one. First time he has stood out to me so far.

Thought Frankie did well too actually, much better now he seems to have shed a few pounds. Good day for the big lads then, are Widnes not as strong in the forwards as they like to think then?

calland introduced gleeson just at the right time and turned the first half.
then brought back penky at the right time and he also changed the game.
two very good substitutions.

Hmmm... I thought forward battle was fairly even today... how many breaks from your pack? Well taken win for Fax but to say your forwards dominated was just well... wrong!

Sorry to be on point I'd agree, Gleeson calmed the side down and looked like he knew what he was doing more whereas Penky seemed to come out of Dummy half and hope the runners came. Branighan looked good as he seemed to stay out of the action a bit but come in for key plays as a top stand off with a good scrum half should do. Royston impressive as usual!

You're stuck in the past mate, the forwards didn't need to make the breaks, just win the collision, get to their feet the quickest and a clean play the ball when in possession or get set when not in possession. Let Brannigan do the rest steering us around the field......

I was just thinking that, surely it's the backs jobs to make breaks. Which White certainly did.

I wasn't sure about Paul White, when we brought him in, but I thought he did well last night.

to beat widnes at there place is awesome, confidence will be flowing in the camp, well done fax!

Gleeson was quality last night, calm head and superb distribution and dummy running. He made the right choices every time. I was worried when he went off late on.

Attacking there is no problem. It's his defence which worries me, he didn't take a kick all night, leading to a try and a very close disallowed one and his positioning was a bit off.

It will all come with match practise though I'm sure.

Back to Gleeson he came on at just the right time in the first half. We started to lull, falling off tackles, not moving up and the forwards started to hide as they were out of puff. Gleeson and Said came on and breathed new life into us, Gleeson was busy and brought the forwards onto the ball and caused havok in their defence.

I still think he should start though with Penky off the bench.

Gleeson was awesome last night. He seemed to step it up a gear when he came on really pushing Widnes on to the back foot. Fantastic impact player and I'm glad he wears a Fax shirt!

Gleeson is quality, a good first pass from acting halfback is worth 10 points a game, Gleeson has that.

You were obviously one of the clump that were making idiots of themselves by making stupid calls all the time. Your only defence can possibly be that you watching a different match, nay, sport.

heh? just watched again and forward throughout the ENTIRE game were pretty even over all, both sides made yards and also made good tackles driving back etc. I hear your forwards were dominant as where your backs... guess that's why scored same amount of tries as us then yes?

Hey, come on troops. Let's lay down our keyboards and play football.