Some observations:

I thought we looked like we had more idea in attack - albeit against very poor opposition. Pickersgill and Keyes combined very well and McNally came up well from the back. We don't need any more halfback cover now Chisholm is back since Pickersgill is an able deputy.

I thought Halafihi had a good game and made tons of yards from dummy half. More than Hallas who I think is better suited to loose forward.

Callum Bustin looked the part. I think Kirk will have to work hard to get his place back.

Minchella looked a class apart.

If I had to find one negative about our performance yesterday, I think it would probably be the (lack of) service that our wingers got.
Dalton Grant barely got a sniff yesterday because Gibson either just put his head down and went himself or just ran a line that effectively used up all of Grant's space.
Ryan didn't get any space to run in because he's outside Lee Smith. Hopefully Oakes isn't too far away and Kear actually has the balls to drop the captain.
I'm not convinced about Mikey Wood either. Did big minutes yesterday but failed to make an impression, while our other three props were making breaks for fun.

It's nice that we have options this year

I think Elliots best position is 13. He likes to get his hands on the ball a lot and I think that's how he most effective to the team, obviously we are not reading too much into yesterday. Backing up, anticipating a break and putting himself in a position to finish things off is something which I think he does ok. If he plays the majority of games at 12 he will me more than happy and crack on and give 100%

Bustin eased my slight worries about our depth in the prop department. He is a unit and it looked like the opposition struggled with him everytime he had the ball. Crossley, Peltier and Bustin are the three main props for me with Kirk, Wood and Davies fighting it out for the fourth spot/providing cover for injuries.

Agree about how fluent we looked in attack. This team has a lot of points in it and I think we are going to enjoy this season. Kear just needs to ensure he keeps them grounded for the more difficult games like York, Keighley etc. There is a big disparity between the top and lower half teams in this league.

Minchella looks like he is going to be the Bentley of the team when it comes to try scoring. Brilliant signing.

For me the only negative was switching off for their try!

Did they really switch off?? We tried to have 3 quick penalties and the ref said no, they had 1 right on our line and he let it go.

And seemed to get in the way of the defenders!

He was stood completely in the way. But apart from that howler he had an ok game.

The biggest shame is that when we booed the ref for his decision, it came across as if were booing West Wales, when nothing could be further from the truth. I don't begrudge them their try for a second, much as I disagree with the referee's decision.

Yes I agree and I hope our Welsh friends don't think we were booing their team efforts.

Given that most folk stayed to applaud them off I don't think they were too upset.

Got to admit I was very pleased West Wales didn@t resort to grubby tactics ala Keighley even when down by a big score. Played some good rugby at times but our defence was a class apart. Agree with everything said about the likes of Hallas, Halafihi and Minchella. And really class from Minchella to say that about not cheapening Les' record even though I was a litte excited he could have broke it! Great performance all in all. McNally did look like he was running in treacle though

Gre