the ball is clearly in view and grounded but grant can't see it????
everybody else could see it

Lumb is a really poor finisher

Great win overall, I enjoy watching our side for the first time in years. 




Has he always been a winger? His finishing always looks awkward, even when he scores. His knee first technique is just plain bad. He invites far more contact because he has to get closer to the line. It just doesn't look very natural to him. 

Is the game going to be shown on demand on superleague+ ? 
Was looking forward to getting home to re-watch it.

Won’t be till Monday as it was a Sky main pick.

Riley played a lot of full back.

He’s young and will learn

Good win.  We're starting to look like (in Superleague terms) an elite team. Wire really tried to stay with us, but despite some decent field position in an excellent 1st half, they were always getting the worst of it. Introduction of Smith, Holroyd and Lisone really tipped the balance late in the 1st half. Connor was once again outstanding, but Croft playing down the much more difficult right channel was really, really good. His contact in defence is top class. Thought Gannon was great, what a player we are losing. All in all a very satisfactory 80 mins. If we can beat Saints at their place next week is another championship an outlandish possibility?

Everything looked off about Riley from well out when he messed that try up. His instinct was poor which led to the wrong type of finish for the situation. He showed a complete disregard for the defender who was about make contact. Ryan Hall spoke a while back about “initiating contact” in certain try scoring situations and helping Riley in that department. This was a clear case of Riley not taking it on board. That said, I thought Lumb had another really good game overall and is fully justifying his place in the team.

I loved how relentless our forwards were, so good to see a strong pack after the last few seasons.


Lumb's finishing is really odd, he neither goes for the contact or acrobatic corner dive, instead he drops to his knees to place the ball down, needs to work on that. His tackle on Tai was a beauty though.

A promising performance and another good result. As Arthur Clues said, can we dare to dream ? The team seems to have good structures and the players are executing well. Rohan Smith played by the official rule book far too long and moaned when everyone other team didn’t, but Brad Arthur seems to have grasped the fact that there are official rules and the one’s deployed by the match day officials. The slightly forward pass is a must have for any team wanting to challenge for honours, and it was well  disguised and executed by us on a couple of occasions yesterday. George Williams has been the master for years but in Jake Connor we have a canny operator who can be equally adept in that department. Got to say, the atmosphere in the first half was as bad as I’ve ever heard at Headingley, and the numbers from Warrington were dire for a Saturday afternoon. 

Another honest performance where we earned the right to play. Missed a couple we probably should have scored, equally we scored a couple that on another day would have been stopped. We're getting there and what I really like is how the players that perhaps were 50/50 good enough are really digging in to prove that they have what it takes. What's also good is that we've got a tough mini run coming up. Not long ago most would have been dreading it; now it feels like that extra level of challenge is exactly what's needed.