Last nights stats make ugly reading - 40 missed tackles, and 40 line breaks by Catalan,  and some paltry yardage gains by the usual suspects.


Fortunately, they had Luke Keary at 6 - a player with all the penetration and incisiveness of a eunuch after 12 pints.


We'll probably snap him up as Williams replacement.

Last nights stats make ugly reading - 40 missed tackles, and 40 line breaks by Catalan, and some paltry yardage gains by the usual suspects.


Fortunately, they had Luke Keary at 6 - a player with all the penetration and incisiveness of a eunuch after 12 pints.


We'll probably snap him up as Williams replacement.

So 40 "line breaks" seems a bit strange. Where did you get that from? I do worry about stats.
Surely no side could make 40 line breaks without winning 100 - 0.
I checked Leigh v HKR and Leigh made 46 tackle busts. 

Luke Keary has really been a poor signing. 

Yeah no problem with Yates for defensive work. Just Yates + Crowther is too limiting and Yates is the more effective player. Crowther as squad back up. 

They'll be saving it up for the next defeat.

1. Denial  x 
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression 
5. Acceptance 



Some way to go yet  

I thought we got the rub of the green on Saturday night. If I were a Dragons fan I would feel pretty aggrieved. In the first 5 mins Makinson should have been in under the posts if it wasn't for the ref blowing the whistle. 
In the first half there was lots of effort. Dragging attackers back towards their own goal line. Lots of kick pressure etc but then that all changed. 
I am often guilty of reading too much into things but it's like our attitude changed almost at the point that Ratchford replaced Sneyd. From almost the whole team the demeanor changed. We starting whingeing to the ref about the speed of the ruck and then the synchronized displeasure when Gardner was hit high (I didn't see much in it myself and I think Gardner and Phil in didn't see much in it either). It is like we stopped working hard to earn the win and started looking for easy way outs when under pressure. 


When you are up against it and the opposition has had a kick up the backside at half time then roll your sleeves up and get on with it. Oppositions know we are fragile mentally and just like Darryl Powell correctly pointed out when the pressure is on we cave in. Yep. It was a great piece of magic from Williams at the end but we should have been out of sight after 60 mins. 

Stats of 40 line breaks can't be right?

A good game for the neutrals, but not for Wire fans. However, its great to see young players take their chance, we are building a great back line for the future. Its worrying that Vaughan is potentially a signing for York. If the club are happy to let him go then they must have a fantastic forward in line to replace him, I would doubt that is the case though. I'd give him his 2 year deal and try to get a clone to play alongside. 

There were not 40 line breaks. There were 40 tackle busts, which is a lot but not the same.


If someone charges at the line, bursts through the tackle of the first man, but is brought to ground by the next one in, thats a tackle bust. Not unusual on a wet pitch.


For something to be a line break, you have to get through the line and retain your feet/balance. Catalans achieved two of these in the match: one by Makinson and one by Balmforth. Warrington managed four: one each by Wrench, Williams, Dufty and Josh Thewlis.