briers..... i also thought riley had a decent game.. apart from the one moment early in the second half.

I'm not sure it's clueless in fairness. The first half, every last tackle play was that stupid bomb in the air, when it was crying out for a weighted kick, just play the percentages etc, and he missed touch with a kick etc, he wasn't good.

What LWF is doing, is failing to acknowledge the second half, when he either scored or created probably 7 of the 9 tries, so that's probably what, circa 40 points.

I amdit he wasn't great first half but he wasn't shocking in all departments, he scored a try for a start and created some good openings.

Bridge

Briers for me. had a hand in most of the trys. 2 for himself. very nice.

Briers did have a shocker in the 1st half the only player that was worse was Bridge difference is Briers upped his game 2nd half Bridge didn't he was the only player who didn't imo ! To win like that with5 first choice players out and 2 playing on one leg was impressive 2nd half ,I just wish people would stop the booing like they did at half time it doesn't help build the morale of the team

King or Briers for me in the first half king was one of the few trying and doing something

Parden ?

Some fella in front of me in the East Stand was slagging King off for his 70 yard burst from defence calling him "useless" as he should have finished the try! Thought it was a great break and took the pressure off us myself.

I'm missing something with Monas tbh.

He threw 1 pass that went to them (although we got a penalty as he was offside), he also turned the ball over with a schoolboy error of just throwing the ball when he was getting tackled. He also missed a shocker of a tackle for one of their tries.

For me he was very poor, and I am stunned he is being considered as better than Briers, Westwood or Carvell who were three or four levels above everybody else on the field IMHO.

Monas did a couple of nice things when we were completely on top, but there is always a bad mistake just round the corner with him.

I am getting more and more impressed with King, and he now looks like the most dangerous player on the field for us when he gets the ball. The problem is we don;t have a left sided half to feed him the ball.

I thought Mike Cooper did everything that was needed today. Didn't try to win the game with every play, did the basics well and kept going making an impact, especially considering the length of time he was kept on.

With Wood's injury Cooper has the opportunity to stake a claim for replacing Rauhihi in our first choice four props for next season.

Definitely.

I was willing him to score today, he deserverd a try.

And what about some of the mistakes he made?

He was excellent again.

What's great with him is what you allude to, he plays within his limitations, plays to his strengths, only knows one way forwards and just makes tough metres with every carry.

His improvement this year has been tremendous to see. [size(Unless you're Steve Pickersgill)[/size