Forgot about that, brilliant play.

Thewlis has been a class act ever since he stepped into the first team. The thought of Russell being selected ahead of him sends a shiver down my spine.

The more I see of Thewlis I can't help thinking that he should have spent time as a youngster at half-back or centre ... I suppose he had more space and preferred FB. He looks a lovely passer of a ball.
Whilst we are handing out awards for great skill what about Mata'uta's offload for Dufty's try.

He's been fantastic. A talented, brave and clever player. I'm a bit worried how many knocks to the head he's getting at the moment - 3 on Thursday. I know he's streets ahead of Russell but I wouldn't mind him having a breather one week if he gets many more.

Peanut isn’t very good. I’d rather Watkins and Lafai over Ma’tautia and Stef.

Whilst we have a good pack and two very good halfbacks, we have the worst centres in the league IMO.

They have both been pretty good so far this season for me. Wrench returning from fitness and some second row options becoming available should help as well.

Brierly going off probably helped them he was having a terrible game already and was just as bad when he returned.

re.Centres
Ratchford & Mata'utia have been fine so far. Both have done some top class offloads to set up tries.
When I watched HKR v Wigan I was thinking that Wigan were struggling to adapt to their new expensive centres who we know well.

Heard that Kasiano and Harrison were both carrying knocks so they only had one stint. (Harrison has had a knee problem for a couple of weeks, not sure when Sam picked his knock up).

Looks like we could've done with Dudson, Philbin et al next week, not in 2 or 3.

Having watched it back I’m not sure on this. Yes, we had the majority of the ball but they had the answers to the questions up to that point. There’s an argument that time spent under pressure would have told eventually, but the sin bin certainly moved that tipping point forward.

Without singling you out to critique, it’s important that we don’t turn into other fan dynamics who will deny benefit from referee decisions but still bemoan those that go against. The “core” of our fans are better than that. While we may rant and rave, it’s at the people directly responsible, who earn the appropriate wage for their work.

The sinbinning was obviously a factor, but can you recall any team being able to take advantage of that to the extent of 3 tries? I certainly can’t which hopefully shows our ruthless streak as much as a Salford collapse.

One is still receiving remuneration from us

Don’t know which Warrington you’ve been watching then. Ratchford has been exceptionally good.

Absolutely, that streak of really digging in to their vulnerabilities has not been in a Warrington team in my memory. We’ve often let teams off the hook.

While we did make the most of the advantage, I think the question was if we could have without the sin bin. Up to that point you could sense a tension in the ground, and the dam burst with it, and probably with it took that anxiety away from the players.

But, there is definitely a different mindset in this group this year. Something that I didn’t see coming on the evidence of last season.

According to Saints fans they’ll see how good we are when the injuries pile up….don’t think they’re aware we’re already struggling in that regard.