Well it would be fair to say the Atkins skinned him, yes. He was left exposed by Worrincy and another defender (that I don't recall.)

But overall I thought he had a decent game, was safe under high balls, and ran the ball out of defence well

Didn't he run into touch when he didn't need to.

He probably doesn't want to he's always been a very reluctant kicker.

Yes he was left exposed. My guess is that Platt would have had rather more chance of stopping Atkins - provided of course he did not have a brain fart in doing it - but Atkins takes some stopping. Halley also did rather more running across the face of the defence a la Platt too, I thought? Under the high balls he was sound - and various Wakey fans were saying they should pepper him, so they must have perceived a weakness there? - Overall though I think Halley did nothing to justify not keeping his place. IMO.

thought Kopczak was good today for you guys

I agree with what you say - however I must point out that you did actually play against a very weak Trinity pack. Front line props Sculthorpe, Stosic and Bibey (who pre injury form was quite exceptional for him) were all missing whilst Moore was playing his first match back from his well documented illnes.

Now it's all if's and but's and there is no guarantee that any of the players missing from either side would have made a difference. However I have no doubt that part of your comeback in the second half was due to the fact that your bigger pack was winning the arm wrestle in the middle which may not have been the case had we had some bigger more seasoned players available. It's just a detail but it's worth noteing.

Always the ref ain't it Mick - you are a joke, but not a funny one.

so you think silverwood had a good game? He made some shocking decisions, you kick it out on the full so its your head and feed?

Nowt to do with the chargedown attempt from your man then?

it happened twice, only once was there a legitimate chargedown

I know. I'd hoped no-one would point that out! Moore coming on lifted your lot for sure, though. But, and in fairness, had your big guys been out on the park, I think our guys were still so depleted after Friday that you could well have ground us down and run riot in the last quarter. Kear has done wonders with taking seemingly "problem" props and turning them into cracking players. In the case of Bibey and Moore, I suspect they owe him a debt that extends far beyond the rugby field.

Couldn't fault the team for effort, and playing two games in short order (both teams, even if we had the harder one) it was never going to be pretty, but McNamara said "It is criminal the amount or errors we made" and he is right. It is very frustrating to come away froma match like that, a narrow 2 point defeat, when it is clear we basically gave the game away through the cumulative result of a procession of silly mistakes. fsck knows what we do about it - you can't legislate for a regular flow of basic dumb mistakes, giving the opposition hundreds of metres of territory and many minutes of possession.

Still, if we win our game in hand we are halfway up the table, and we've only lost 2 games more than Leeds, who are in 3rd, so things don't look so bad for our patched up transitional squad, and but for the odd missed goal kick here and there we would be nearer still.

I hear that there is no chance at all that we will have 17 fit men for Friday, so we'll start the game with some busted. Such is life.