A few thoughts of my own (apologies if this is repeating other people's, I haven't bothered to read them )

Defence. Sometimes excellent, other times god awful. It amazes me sometimes how they can defend the line so well one minute, and then leave a massive gap or miss an easy tackle the next.

Langley. Much much much better. I've been getting to the point where I didn't want him in the team anymore, but if he plays like that each week, I've no problem with him in there. He broke the line, he made yards, he actually passed the ball, including setting up both Menzies' tries. Really glad to see him play better.

Deacon. Still poor and I have no idea what's happened to him. While he's never been spectacular, he's always been dependable. He's not even that anymore and today he had another 'mare.

Rinaldi. Best game for us so far and showed why we should be at the very least keeping him until the end of the season. I'd like to see him moved to 7 when Godwin is back if Deacon hasn't got any better.

Nero. How much better is he this year? Far and away our best three-quarter this season.

If anyone could watch that match and think Halley isn't a better fullback than Platt, I'll happily call them biased.

Overall, just nice to get a win and not look like we've never played together. Some definite improvement and hopefully it will stay that way instead of the relapse that's happened after other wins.

I'd go along with that for the remainder of the year. But I'd hope we could secure a better solution for the longer term. He'd be a good squad player but we need to recruit some genuine class and to do this we may well have to replace him.


Absolutely. After a slow start to his Bulls career he is showing the quality Rugby though we were all expecting from him.


Whilst I still have a few reservations about his defensive strength, I think all things considered he is a much safer and consistent player than Platty. Certainly worth a new 2 year deal to see if he can continue to improve, but will he stay?

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Good game generally. An improvement of the last few weeks anyway! ( )
Was impressed with the attack, some imagination at last. Defence is still too leaky though.
Some of the refs calls were just bizarre, for both sides, its no wonder the players were getting fed up.
Rinaldi was ace today, as was Langley. Deacon was poor, why is he still getting a place, week in week out? Everything he tried today seemed to fall apart.
Not sure why Cook was dropped. He has been one of the few players who always seemed to be up for it. Instead, put Whitehead on the bench and not use him. Bizarre in any books.
Still, a wins a win.

Can we play Wakey every week please?

Why did it all kick off? I couldn't really see. Think Burge could be in bother, he ran about 20 yards to get stuck in.

Good lad.

On the game I thought the attitude of the players was a lot better but the overall level of the performance was just as bad IMO.

It's not a bad point, I'm not sure how that works.

I wonder if there's some ruling that says you can only count 1 game in a 72 hour period or something. If not, I bet one gets invented

Everyone ran in when the Wakefield player decided to swing a punch from nowhere when Scruton tried to pull him off Jeffries. Hard to accuse one of the many who ran in. Dumb play by Wakefield player when they'd just won a penalty.

That went past me a little too fast on the last bend...could you clarify a bit?

Don't Demetriou and Jeffries own a business together or something??