The 'free play' idea is interesting and when I saw him put the kick in initially I thought it must be a free play. Perhaps he thought so.
I've always liked Bridge as a player so maybe he's just a bit rusty. I was cursing him during the game but I've cooled off. There were certainly other players who were not at their best and didn't do as much as might be expected.
I thought Ratchford tried hard all game and was the one who nearly stopped the breakaway try. I'd always imagined that Riley was one of our quickest but he was easily chased down when he got an interception. Do we have a very speedy player? Do we need one?

We have really only glimpsed the talents of Rhys Evans in the first team ,but he does seem to pick up injuries at an alarming rate & would his body stand up to regular SL as the centre of choice ?

You do begin to wonder if he is going to be one of those players that struggles from one injury to the next and finally has to retire from the game. My concern is that he has now had two lengthy foot injuries, both I think due to breakages.

Rhys is still only 20, he's got stacks of time.

This was the situation we found ourselves in with Simon Grix not long after he'd signed. Those days are now well behind him and he looks pretty much indestructible.

Well lets hope we see the same with Rhys. He is still quite raw, but the few games he played for us this season were impressive. He looked a different player from the previous season and his tackling was excellent. Looks as though he will probably have to wait until next year now, but at least he will know that Matty is not coming back so I would imagine he could take that to be 'getting the nod' from the coaching staff.