He is a leader for them tho

Hill and Sims departing is when it went pear-shaped for them vs HKR and their bench doesn't look all that inspiring (or England starting). Our centres in good form against their centres looks ominous for them also.

Think Warrington's hopes lay with Sandow having one of those wonder debuts.

They could still turn us over. We have to start well and either post some points early or get a few repeat sets. If we can keep our offload game going we should be able to tire their big forwards out.

that is exactly the point i was trying to make

Wire are more than capable of matching us up front and turning us over, and they are going to be up for this big style and we will have to be at the top of our game to get the points

That was a poor kick for a penalty

Dismissed some Top 8 whipping boys

Hope the Messiah Smith is working on his CV.

Thing is... I didnt even think we were that good tonight. First half was a bit lethargic.

Happy days.

Here's the bad news.... Aiton has a suspected broken arm - out for 6 - 8 week.

Well, what a joy that was to watch
Some outstanding individual performances from Hardaker, Watkins, Cuthbertson, Garbutt, and Aiton. I also thought Sinfield was terrific also.

I thought we were good. The two tries we conceded were only tries because Wire have the fastest player in the league on their wing. Any other player our cover would have stopped them short.

Hardaker obviously MoM (though he should have passed for his disallowed try). Peacock, Cuthbertson excellent and Garbutt too. Sinfield was very good, which we needed because McGuire was off his game.

Nice to see McDermott going back into the old Bulls playbook for the old Lowes/Fielden/Paul inside-outside breaking up the middle at the play-the-ball. Good to be on the right side of that after all these years.

Wire were terrible except for Ratchford who saved them from shipping 80 and also did really well for their second try.

Garbutt was very strong I thought.seemed to make a lot of tackles (some of them bruisers) and some strong runs

Ratchford looked good because he was involved a lot defensively. He was pretty awful for Hardaker's first both in angle and contact, and didn't cover himself in glory for his second either.

Ratchford? He was very poor for a few of our tries that Hardaker on the other hand would've stopped easily. I like Ratchford but a FB he ain't. In fact what is his best position as The Messiah has bumped around one of his best players for a few years now.....FB? Centre? HB? Loose? Will probably play all 4 positions in the next four weeks going on previous evidence.

And yet Ratchford is getting a proper coating on the wire board ,