Inconsistent the only thing nice to say. Although ridiculously inconsistent.

https://www.therhinos.co.uk/report/wake ... rhinos-10/ Stats.

https://www.therhinos.co.uk/report/wake ... rhinos-10/ Stats.

Thing that annoyed me most about Hicks last night is he spoke so well about refereeing on Rugby AM recently and then proceeded to act like a pedantic school teacher. The game was never going to flow due to the conditions but some of the whistle blowing for pens was ridiculous. And the missed knock ons, forward passes and offsides from him and the touchies was shocking. Awful.

All the credit goes to our defence imo yea Wakey made errors but how many of those were forced by our defensive shape line speed or impact? Plenty of them.
Although Tui took his try well he's still way off been good enough imo 3 times in that 1st half Handley covered kicks he should be ckearing up.
In the pack Ferres & Singo still not good enough the rest were very good in those conditions.
Newman showed the Centre spot is his to lose & credit KW he was excellent in the BR.

Yes our line speed and shape was far better than it has been, changed the dynamic of the game.

i thought newman played it really smart on his break, he didn't have the speed to get there and he risked getting too close to the touchline where almost any tackle coming in from the side would send him into touch
tui might be a good assett next season once the conditioner works on him but i bet no one thought he had the speed to go that far for his try

Positives
Our defence was excellent, the best it’s been this season. And obviously we picked up 2 much needed points in the league. Newman, Dwyer, Merrin and Seumanufagai all played well.

Negatives
Our attack is dreadful. Lolohea had a poor game, with the exception of his interception try. Ashton Golding should have start at full back next week for me. And how does Brad Singleton keep making the side, he is the new Jamie Mathiou.

To be fair to Tui I don’t think Golding would have had the nouce to score that try, judging our attack in that weather is futile at least we made quite s few breaks

I’d be more concerned with Tui’s defensive play at full back. When they were on our line at the start of the game he was never in shot to defend the kick. He had no appetite to try to catch the bombs, and I don’t really remember him making a tackle all game?

With the ball, he scored a good try, but also hurled it into touch when we could have scored in the second half.

He’s not the player we need at this point, due to his defensive failings and attitude.

and Peter Smith gave him an 8

Peter Smith shows every week that he knows bugger all.

That's pretty harsh.

Happy with that result and the performance.

Merrin and Newman fantastic, Dwyer, Ava, Watkins and the wingers all good aswel imo.

Really liking the look of Ava in the short time he's been here.

Newman showed why the Watkins call, while a sad one, was the right one. He's a star. 16 tackle busts last night. When you think of how much he's improved this last few month, to the point that he's regularly one of the best players on the pitch already, then forcast that to the start of nxt season when he's turning 20, its scary to think how good he's going to be. The strength, athleticism and footwork are a joy to watch.

Newman plays with aggression - he’s going to be tricky to handle when he matures.

He continually captions pictures of the players wrong and his assessment of players often is pretty odd.