Westwood shows whenever he plays the difference between pre/early SL to the majority current SL talent coming through.

Westwood = Uncompromising, 100% effort 100% of the time, Hard as nails, Can give a whack and take a whack, can decapitate or be decapitated and still expect any hard feelings to end after the hooter, Rum as F**k

Majority of new SL Players (there are some exceptions) = Comprimising, 100% effort when they can be d, soft and throw themselves to the floor like wendyballer, can give a whack but can't take one, hard feelings carried on off the pitch, Vanilla as they come.


Benny witnessed a Wigan team during a 20 minute spell that realised they couldn't beat us by playing rugby, so turned to aggression to try and take our 'small' men out the game. Then when it boils over, a little cheese eating surrender monkey comes in and cops him one from the side... As far as I'm concerned he's forgivably lost his head and I can completely understand that. We have squad depth and can give someone else a run out and stake their claim for a shirt. I'm glad we still have someone in the pack with some ***t in them.

Lol

I know this thread is about Westwood but whenever there is a bit of a dust up in a game I look at who takes the next carry.
More often than not it is Ryan Atkins and he did it again on Friday. I know he dropped a bomb with they try line begging but it takes some bottle to do that - especially a centre wwhen you would expect a front rower to be taking that carry.
I take my hat off to him. I would be at the back of that queue.

Unless we get a few injuries to the forwards i don't think we'll see Akauola more than a handful of times this season before we get rid at the end of the season. Smith Bought him and Price clearly isn't a fan of him.
As for Benny fair enough he had a brain fart and threw a head at Escare, but for some reason most people seem to forgot or have not seen him get hit in the side of the head by him. I don't think it was intentional as he was jumping up to grab him but he did in fact connect right to the side of his head. Now in the middle of an aggressive scuffle adrenaline is going and as far as benny would have been concerned at little turd just punched him in the side of the face.
Stupid move the headbutt but ahh well poop happens.

Stupid and paying the price. But we have enough cover and Ben can never do anything to tarnish his legacy in my eyes. He didn't have use of his arms when Escare cheap shotted him, I've no doubt that if they weren't tied up he'd have put one of them into frenchies face, as it were the only thing he had to teach him a lesson was his forehead.

I think we will see him over / just after Easter to spread out the playing minutes a little. He needs to take that chance though, as It doesn't look like he will get many this season I agree.