Top of the league by the skin of our teeth on points difference . ....I'll take that. ... but the club can NOT accept that standard of performance. ...

If we lose our next two games and are fifth by the time Sandow returns it will be a very sad state of affairs. ..and we will not be taken seriously as a title contender. ... and rightly so. ..

Glass half empty type of mood. ...

it is worrying that we have regressed into the gutless displays of last season since sandow got injured....

but then again, that always happened when briers got injured as well.

so its nothing new.

That is the most disappointing thing about it IMO MD. Has the last 7 years been about TS coaching or about how much an X factor player has pulled us out of the sugar that were in without one?
Or is it that TS just doesn't have a scooby doo what a heavyweight pack is?
Once again it seems were a one prop team...Hill.

There's a golden pack rule.... A big good un is better than a little good un.

es thy bin gerrin a new deck chair or what?

Peed off but not going to over-react - as MD says.

We won some matches by the skin of our teeth early on. Still think Gidley's the key man.
Sandow is missed but it'll be G and R got until end May / June.
That's enough time to make a reasoned judgment (although I understand that many will disagree).

Didn't sound like many had a good game.
It happens.

Hudds are bottom but have been unfortunate not to win more. Leeds beat Hull (the current form team with Cats) so it's not just us.

On way home, gidley needs sitting down for a few weeks, he's carrying an injury and he's virtually a passenger at this point.

I know we've not got anyone else, but I'd rather struggle and get him fit for later

So, reading between the lines of Smith's post match press conference, Brough as "torn us a new un". Quelle surprise

As long as I've been a Wire fan, there's ALWAYS been a half back that we can't deal with.
In the mid/late eighties, it was Derryck Fox
Fast forward a few years, it was Mark Aston (did he EVER have a bad game against us)
There's been many others, too.
Now it's Brough
Why don't we just clatter (legally) or, at least constantly run at/tire them out? Instead, we just give it the "after you, Claude" attitude, and let them take the mick.

You were well beaten by a better side, a side who defended superbly and kicked the life out of you and won every battle going, these things happen sometimes.

Thought we were fantastic and never gave you any space to play, and when we did, you seemed totally clueless, Clark was the only one looking like a threat.

Very pleased with our performance, we haven't been that bad and i had a feeling this was coming.

And fair play to the 1212 Wire fans who came, although they were very quiet after the drummer got bored

why on earth are we getting in a paddy over losing a game to a team that will beat many a team...for one its not as if the league holds much clout (thanks to the rfl and sky)finish in the top 4 which we will and then contest the comp at the end of season.. who knows we may even make the final at that dump...

Defended well first half but the attacking was dreadful. Awful with the ball in hand and the kicking game wasn't much better. Barely looked like scoring to be honest. Going to try and forget all about it instantly, just hope Clark is ok - our best player by a mile tonight.

I think i recall, although i might have missed it in all the excitement!, that you only got over our line once ,when Evans was bundled out?
I can't remember wire ever threatening our line.

.....because we didn't even look like scoring a single point against the team who are bottom of the table, that's why

TBH the amount of pressure we put you under we should have scored a lot more points which is testament to your defensive effort esp in the first half. We forced about 8/9 dropouts tonight but still only scored 11 points. We've not had a problem scoring this season- it's our defence that's been shaky, probably due to all the switches we've been forced to make due to injury- today it just finally clicked unluckily for you. Yes you dropped a lot of ball- but we forced a lot of that by getting into your faces and our scramble defence was brilliant.
Two young props today absolutely played their hearts out and Nathan Mason who's probably played less than an hour at SL level stood up brilliantly to Sims and he disappeared after that.
When I saw the weather forecast I thought we were doomed when I saw the forwards you had named in your side, I wonder if your players underestimated our pack.
Just unfortunate for you that the sleeping giant awoke today - it's the first time we've played for the full 80 this season.