A very improved work effort and confidence all round, better tackling than of late but for me it was parity in the collisions that led to our speed around the rucks, and defence against their rucks that was the most improved factor.

As said already our good ratio of possession and field positions was let down by poor creativity in the red zone, albeit against a well structured Warrington defence.

Overall a performance which the players and supporters can take lots of pride from.

very happy to come away with a win..nearly always tough at Odsal...especially without Monas, Westwood and Briers (for a half.)

Keep that intensity in your defence and get a better kicking game will see you win more than you loose.

FWIW ~ I think tonight was brilliant for our squad, they matched the Wires for long periods of the game and but for some contentious refereeing decisions would have run the opposition a lot closer.
Whilst the Wire probably deserved to win, just! ~ we showed that this squad does have the potential to become a competitive force in SL.
The major gain tonight was the pride & self belief that the team must feel after that game and the knowledge that the players did their fans proud tonight.
Does anyone know if we came out of tonight's game injury free?

Was impressed with so many aspects tonight.

I thought Wire tried to play around the ruck all night, obviously they have been taking notes of our previous games, but i actually thought we defended much better than previous games.

In my opinion, i thought our pack were the stronger of the 2 teams tonight, the meters made, and the defensive effort was great but we need to remember we have backs that need to be brought into play.

At times, we had the ball in their 20, we had no idea what to do. I actually thought that the time we spent there, we could have actually posted a large score against Wire. It was then so disappointing for Wire to then get into our 20 and walk straight through.

If we get some clinical plays put together that we can execute on a match day, we will be a match for any team. Until then, we only look like scoring from kicks.

Manu....... (New forward) looked really impressive tonight, ran hard, looked to offload, looked to get on his feet fast to play the ball. He looks the real deal.

For me, we need to show we can take our opportunities when we have field position. If we get that sorted, this team can make a real push up the table, hopefully making the play-offs

Very good effort tonight if we can finish a set with a try when we are so close to the try line & play like this for the rest of the season we are going to kill off a lot of sides.
Some poor decisions from the ref and linesmen not saying we would have won if they went the other way just a lot closer

Good display from the pack and the backs. What we need is some way of maybe linking the two. The backrow in particular is looking pretty good at the moment.

Much improved though. Really pleased with that result. After the Wigan game I asked for more mongrel and less lap dog and that's exactly what we got.

thats the sort of game that makes you optimistic for the second half of season, build on that and you have a real chance of playoffs. lets go to kr and kick on! Again Bateman getting stuck in a fellow player in trouble, he impresses me more and more. just cannot see how 3 officials did not see the elbow, wherever it hit is irrelevant, its the intent that needs to be punished. Before the game would have settled for less than 30 points difference, well pleased with 7 after discounting the forward pass try. and Oxford Exile, you only have 2 and a half players missing. We have Elima, Gale, Donaldson, Purtell.

Add to that walker, sibbit and olbison ( plus scruton unavailable). Fair enough not all first choice players but some are first choice backup for players already injured.

WE might have Elima, Walker, Sibbett & Scruton in contention next week.
I expect Elima to give Bateman a rest,
Scruton to replace Josephs
But does Walker replace Platt at cente ?
And who would be dropped for Sibett ? if he was to come in

And Karl Pryce waiting for a game, and Ainscough..Although i think Crookes and Kear's placs in the 1st team and well deserved at the moment.

Very good performance last night, the only moan would be the lack of creativity in the final third as already stated, oh and the ref.

Couldnt make the game but caught it on tv, how can we be in the position we are in we pushed wolves all the way and if it wasnt for some suspect refereing and a bit of niavity on the oppos goal.

If we can keep consistant and play like this against the lesser teams not to be derogatory as ino we are a lesser team ATM we should make playoffs easy.

But as i said that watch us lose againt KR next week

Can't understand why we're playing Burgess & Bateman in U20's games when their in the 19 man squad. Talk abotu burn out!!

I wasn't bothered about winning tonight, just wanted a performance, and boy did we get it.

Thats why we've been frustrated all season, if we play like that most games we are easily a play off team.

I only saw the first half & from 68 minutes. Bulls defence & commitment outstanding, just lacking creativity to go with the possession. Wire missed the flair of Briers & Michael Monaghan. I missed the Bridge incident, hope to catch it later, but would have no problem with him being sent for for his smugness. I thought the ref was excellent, I agreed with every VR decision I saw, Hodgson's pass obviously drifted forward with momentum but IMO the original direction was level. I would let them go every time. The crime was not a missed forward pass but a winger out of position.

Watched the game again this morning and a massive improvement all over the park. Great effort and commitment. Just missing that bit of quality in the final third and we would've won the game.

Manase looked good minus the couple of handling errors and Heath looked great again when he came on as he has all season.

Both video ref calls were correct but the try from the forward pass was absolutely disgraceful. Must've been 2 or 3 metres forward. The touch judge was in the perfect position and didn't do anything. Very poor and very disappointing.

Competition for places is never a bad thing IMO. It's what we have seriously lacked for a while now.

Once we get a few more people back its going to be very interesting to see who is able to up their game and nail down the starting slots