I've seen a lot of comments of people saying we lost because of such a player or we don't have the mental ability to close out games. I don't think that is the case from Saturday.

I criticised the line up when I saw it, I wasn't comfortable with the right edge. However after watching the game it's clear to me that the game plan was a defensive one, as the score line showed, and Evans and King did very well in that department. People say we may have scored more had penny played instead but we would have conceded more aswell, his defence/positioning isn't as good as those 2 and that's possibly why we lined up as we did.

It was a very hot day, very tiring game. We lost Gidley, Westwood and Bailey aswell I think to injuries, meaning we only had one sub left going into the final stages. This is what played a major factor IMO, we simply had nothing left in the tank and no replacements available.

I thought we played well, and I'm not worried in the slightest. We are one game away from old Trafford and if we play like that if we get there, we could easily walk away as GF winners.

It doesn't seem to be a priority at the Wire. We could do with spending some money on a dependable kicker from RU.

Why RU? This isn't American football. You can't just bring players in to kick. It would take several seasons to get to grips with the switch of codes. There are plenty of young RL players who can kick, half of them never get a chance though because clubs would rather an instant fix and bring an Aussie in instead of developing a new star.

Well maybe a bit of kicking practice for our own prodigies would do nicely followed by elevation to the first team then .

Dec Patton has a very good strike ratio. One of our own 'eh?

I seem to remember, a couple of years ago, we let a very good goalkicker go over the Pennines, Ryan Shaw.

And ,maybe with a bit more practice & faith from his manager, Gaz O'Brien could have been a top kicker.