i think is exactly right... sandow is the icing on the cake.. Gidley is sublime.. The real leader we have been crying out for that makes this side hard to beat.

Gidley is an absolute machine.

Like Lefty, I thought it was disgraceful that Carney said we had no chance of winning unless we cheated. Happily we left that to Wigan, who are the pros.

fully justified their 'thug' tag again tonight.... like they always do when they come up against a superior side.

Well, the only thing I have to add is that Evans is replaceable, but Sandow ain't.

What do we reckon ? 8 weeks ?

Gidley is the leader definitely but Sandow is the spark, he created 3 tries in the time he was on. Gidley saw us home (after Sandow gave us the impetus) with leadership and great positional play, if we weren't 14-0 up would we have won that given the injuries and against decisions such as gidley knocking on with his knees?

Sandow walked off which with a hamstring is a good sign. That's the only saving grace.

True, he did. Perhaps I was being a little pessimistic. Lets hope that Gidley can act as our 'can opener' until he returns. I really don't want to go back to the headless chicken routine that we have seen from Wire in 2014,15 when we get close to the opposition line.

Gutted Sandow is unlikely to play v saints. I'm sure he would have blown them away.

A moral victory tonight. We're better than all the crap and showed that we're a different class tonight.

We have to be ULTRA careful, next Friday

Stains are MASTERS at picking off teams, the week after they've suffered a defeat.

I'll celebrate WHEN (if) we've won. Don't forget, this is Stains we're taking about

''The length of time it takes to recover from a hamstring strain or tear will depend on how severe the injury is. A minor muscle pull or strain (grade 1) may take a few days to heal, whereas it could take weeks or months to recover from a muscle tear (grade 2 or 3).''
From NHS website.

Don't mean to be a gloom merchant but hamstring tears can be really nasty and take along time to heal. I've known them take 8 weeks
At least he was walking which is a good sign, but even from that I can still see him being out for a few weeks.
(I've got a grade one and am off to the physio tomorrow)

As soon as Sandow went down it was obviously hamstring or calf and I wanted them to get him off ASAP. I would rather miss him for the rest of that game and maybe the next one or two weeks rather than stay on and get carried off with six to eight or more out. I'm pleased that not only did he not carry on, but he walked off unaided. Hopefully just going to be a week or two at most

Interesting comments from TS on the Beeb RL website alluding to the opposition tactics-in my view of course!.

"I couldn't care less if Wigan were going to win it, I was worried about my players. It was tough, we couldn't rotate them after losing those two players in the first half.
"We had a number of players who shouldn't have been on there after a while with some of the knocks they took.
"I saw the determination of the players - they weren't going to let it slip. Their defence was enormous tonight."

Yes we have lost a definite game breaker for a few weeks with Chris Sandow....time for the coaching staff to earn their corn in the next seven days & come up with an alternative.