Since Tony Smith took over the defence has impressed me more than anything else, you can clearly see what he has addressed in his first off season with the squad. As the saying goes "Defence wins games", in football they say your defence should always be the starting point when building a new team, you build a solid foundation at the back to allow your team to attack.

I`d say that under Paul Cullen we were similar to Newcastle United under Kevin Keegan, they loved to attack and play football which looked great on the eye but they forgot about the defending side of things, it was a "if you score 4 then we`ll score 5" mentallity. That was great to watch but it could also be frustrating as well, ive never known any Warrington side nil a team or keep them try-less so often in a 40 minute period.

it wood be a lot beter if we had a kicker for 4-5 weeks

Not sure what you mean by that, thinking about it. Apart from the Eastmond scoring from 30 meters out, it was individuals failing to deal with kicks in the condition that cost us the tries. Not goal line defence, which was pretty good in that game.

I know there's another thread on this but it is our second half defence, minus the Wigan game, is incredible with only 46 points scored on us in second halfs this season! Cas (6), Wigan (18), Wake (6), Saints (16)!

Our defence has been a wonder to behold so far this year. Lets hope it keeps up for the rest of the season and the cup!

From a fitness point of view, we must be the 'strongest' team in SL. Just 46 pts conceded in the second half when you'd think mistakes would be at a premium, it seems the longer games go the stronger we get, even in the two defeats we finished very strongly.

For this, I'd give that conditioner that Smith brought to the club a big rap, he must have done some excellent conditioning work in the off season.

I'd also give some of the praise that we give to Smith for his HT teamtalks, I'm not sure we always do that much differently in the second half, we just go for longer.

This season is turning out to be the complete reverse of previous ones. How often were we "in with a shout" at half time only to be steamrolled in the second half.

You make them sound like Duracell bunnies.

His name is Chris Baron & he's the little shorta*se who comes on with the bottles when there is a score

In other news, our old conditional Hamshaw is an MMA/UFC type fighter! Mathers told me all about it on Twitter (in between 'smashing the gym' and making a meal that was 'too easy').

and 'feeding the machine'

I that the odd shaped bugger?