Yet when the props were Perry & Laffanchi, we mullered HKR, building a 26-0 lead that had an awful lot to do with forward momentum. I though LMS had his worst game in while tonight, Clough & Flanagan were anonymous, and Flannery completely ineffective. Roby had a bit of a stinker by his standards, too.

Perry's first spell was very decent, whilst LaFrank was rock solid throughout.

No. He wasn't.

You repeating the same thing ad nauseum isn't going to make it true.

Perry did ok in first spell but his downfall was giving three penaltys away on the bounce

Thought Perry did OK as well in his first spell, got through a lot of solid work. He didn,t make metres until his second spell. Being a starting prop, teams will always try to dominate him early doors, thought he took the hits and got on with it.

What were the penalties for? Holding down?
Perry is very good a dominating in the tackle and getting the opposition on thier backs, (generally) holding them down just long enough to slow them down without getting pinged. However, if the ref was "setting his stall out" for the game, he may have taken exception to this in order to force a quicker PTB.

Well said. Lomax is a natural runner but he doesn't yet have the reading of the game that's required although I'm sure he'll grow into it, in the same way that Long did, eventually. However, I would also say that, and it's the same for Gaskell, the timing of our runners is nowhere near as smooth as the pies has been this season. It's something that needs addressing now and next season. Part of that problem though is the players not knowing what Lomax is doing which goes back to the training field, increased awareness of each other and of opposition defensive patterns.