At the moment it's all selection problems. What toppings is the wife currently putting on the pizzas, will the Skyrack have any decent dark bitters over 4%, what type/size coat to wear, a more fitted one with no room for extra layers or bigger padded number that can be layered up, and that's even before any team selection headaches. I'm looking forward to making another judgement on our prop issues and hopefully seeing Andy Yates smashing through would be tacklers like an out of control wrecking ball.

You will be dissapointed then no Yates in the lineup.
The 17 are

Hardaker
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Sinfield
Mags
Cuthbertson
Aiton
JP
Ward
Ablett
JJB

Bench
Achurch
Singleton
Sutcliffe
Kylie

What's up with Burrow?

Heard on radio Burrow was left out.no mention of being injured.interesting

Good win...i think.didn't go, or even listen on the wireless so go easy!

Dennis betts is a class bloke. just watched his post match interview. what every coach should be like.

Very poor for 65mins lots of effort but very poor execution and sloppy play, then sublime for last 15.
Cuthbertson looks the business, and great spell from Achurch. Briscoe awesome. World class try.

We weren't very poor for 65 mins. The first 65 mins were the reason we could be sublime in the last 15 mins.

There was some sloppy play in the first 15 mins but after Widnes' try we totally closed them out of the game with some good metres, excellent kick & chase followed up by excellent defence to pin Widnes in their own 30m. The attack wasn't quite firing to start with, we were struggling to create a gap, but those gaps were then created and exposed later on after we'd worn them down.

Far too many unforced errors and we got dragged into a very slow grind for an hour.
Then once we opened up and got decent quick ball wide we opened them up at will Cuthbertson deservedly named M.O.M at the ground but Briscoe ran him very close.
Yates got the last 10 minutes and didn't look out of place but imo should have been used sooner Achurch had a real positive impact when he got on as well.
Mags was the better of the 2 H/B's imo and until the last 15 minutes Sinfield killed moves too often either choosing to go himself when we had options out wide or passing too slow giving their defence too much time to close us down.
Defensively we were in full control (their try aside) and i thought Ward's work rate out wide was very good.
Overall a convincing win in the end once we started taking the right options and upped the pace but plenty of improvement needed going forward.

My general thoughts on the march. We seemed to look average in attack for 45 minutes in attack and poor near their try line.
But the last 15 minutes we looked like we could score from our own half. Widnes players did look tired to be fair.
Cuthbertson to me was the stand out player. Also thought a lot of players did a decent job.
It still annoys me that McDermott spells certain players for 10 minutes.
How on todays game can you judge Yates whether he deserves to be dropped or keep his place?
Anyway happy with a win against a team that are normally pretty solid and have beaten most of the other team at least once in the last two years.

Truly a game of two halves.
Both sides were poor for the first 40 minutes.
They had no pressure apart from following a penalty for obstruction on halfway. They then scored via Manufokoa (sp?) rumbling over from 5 metres that could have been prevented had we been able to get a third man into the tackle.
That was the only time I recall they got anywhere near to our line whereas we must have lost the ball half a dozen times within their 20.
That pattern continued for the first 20 minutes or so in the second half. They struggled to get out of their half, we got close a number of times but found ways to drop the ball.
Then it all clicked & we ran away with it.
I personally would have made Briscoe MoM but Cuthbertson also did some good things.
I still feel that we really need someone to coach the attack (Iestyn Harris?) since we defended generally very well & stifled any creativity they had which in truth was very little in the absence of Kevin Brown.

Agreed. We could've been better in the first 65 mins yes (tried forcing it a bit too much near the line and came up with a few knock ons) but we've for a long time been a team who work our way into games instead of blasting out of the blocks and Widnes expelled a lot of their energy keeping us contained in the first 40. Widnes seemed to fire through quite a lot of their interchanges in the first 45/50 mins so no surprise what happened in the last quarter.

As for Briscoe, dare I say excellent??? Every try he was involved in he had to produce something very good to turn it into a 4 pointer. Sure we'll also hear other posters also mention good showings from Cuthbertson and Watkins. Also I thought Aiton went well. With Cuthbertson and JJB there we haven't so far needed to flog Peacock and he hasn't been needed to do ridiculous amounts of work (granted still early days and bigger tests to come on that issue). Also with Cuthbertson what I like is that he's not just a big guy who can run and give an offload, he seems to be very communicative organising-wise whilst we're in attack.

Thanks all for the reports

Two very strong second half performances so far this season.

Some great tries in the second half. Nice to see some entertaining Rugby.

Was it just me or did Hicks have a really good game?

Think it's the first time I've every said that!