I thought the same about Dwyer from his reaction, he stayed on though but of course we were out of subs, walker hamstring gone again, he was very good today.
Second half I think the last 2 games caught up with them and we hardly finished a set. Newman showed his inexperience being put into touch 3 times on first tackle, albeit one was going for the line.
Overall just happy we have another win, and was pleased that Watkins looked angry being subbed with 5 mins left. He took a heavy bang on his knee earlier but wanted to stay on although was struggling at end.

Watkins should have been dropped. He has not been 100 percent for weeks

Dwyer = shoulder, Walker = hamstring, Watkins a bump, nothing structural according to Furner in the post match presser.

Delighted for the lads. Worked hard all game and hung in for the win. Cracking two points.

just need to play smarter at times.
2 games at Easter is a joke. duty of care? player welfare?

Why on Earth weren't we putting high balls up in the first half when KR had the sun in their eyes?

They weren't as stupid, and caused us problems in the second half.

Seems odd as we were playing to the "wrong" end in the first half (given we usually play towards the Western Terrace in the first half).

Agree regarding Lolohea, his best game for us by quite a distance.
The team still look so fragile in defence, even a 20 point lead is not enough to feel comfortable. You can see the confidence ebb away from the side when the opposition score.
Still, a win and 2 points are the main thing atm

Yep. And we’re not getting quite far enough away to put the game completely out of sight. Teams know they can score 4 tries in a half against anyone these days if they put they mind to it. If we’d scored another couple of the chances we had I think we’d have been fine.

However obviously the issue is defence and game control. We should win comfortably after the lead we had. Was it 22-0 at half time? We should be winning something like 32-12 or 32-16. Not desperately hanging on at the end.

And that's down to a lack of a quality half back. Myler just doesn't have it. Watkins is also not a great captain and I meant that with the greatest respect to the lad because I rate him as a man and a player. Praying he gets back to something like.

The last few minutes were made more desperate because Dwyer, Walker and Watkins were all injured and we had no more substitutions to make.

Newman bombed 2 tries due to his inexperience and had those been scored it was a comfortable win however we didint and were left hanging on. Disruptions to the team shape in the 2nd half didnt help. Watkins is still struggling for speed but can take 12 months or longer after that sort of injury to get back to full fitness/speed. He took an interception and struggled to get to KR 40, 18 months ago he strolls in under the sticks. TBH i think a month or two on dual reg would do him some good. Glad of the 2 points, need to keep grinding out the wins

Whilst a win is a win and plenty more of them will get us in to the top 6 it is the manner of the win that bothers me.
To say we need to be further ahead than 20+ points to feel comfortable says a lot about our mental strength.
We lost narrowly to a depleted Wakefied team and we beat an even more depleted HKR team just.
Yes we are building but we are still at least 4-5 players short of something decent.
An 8th or 9th finish would be an achievement this year.

I think if someone had offered 3 out of 5 wins in the league following the Catalans game, we'd have chewed their hand off. In fact, I reckon 3 from 6 following the London game would've been a decent return given the general feeling around the place.

No, we're not going to challenge for the league or probably even the play offs but I don't think that was ever the aim this year.

Yep agree with that. 4 or 5 players in addition to Ava imo