Penny is the best winger we have...and by some distance. Hasn't really put a foot wrong since his return to the club either. Odd and very annoying.

It's embarrassing

Have the Smellies brought their full employed roster to the HJ, tonight?
I've just counted 26 people on the pitch for their previous match warm up.

It was like a scene from the Jungle at Calais, when they ran out.

Appalling from Evans

Get in Hill.
Drummond was never as fast

Good pass from Sims to Hill in from 30 mtrs

Gidley's passing as been shocking so far.

Not exactly been great fayre, so far

Too much dropped ball (from both sides), and FAR too much sideways running. At one stage, I thought we'd signed a team of white Henderson Gills, without the end result.

High point of the half, that run from Patrick Ahvrage For 5 seconds, he almost looked like RL player. Ah well.

Happy with the two points, but that was an awful game.

Precious little free flowing rugby. Just a catalogue of knock ons and forward passes, in dry conditions. Dire entertainment.

If that was a Sky game, any early rising Aussies watching, would've been laughing into their Cornflakes, watching the top of SL side.

Still. No side should ever lose to a team containing Patrick Ahvrage

Never in doubt that. Didn't get out of second gear and didn't need to.

Looks as though the game plan was to blow them away in the first half. Pity Bailey picked up a leg injury as Hill must have done a fair few minutes on the pitch - it was perhaps being a bit greedy since we won, but I would have liked to see him getting a bit of a breather in the second half. Phibs impressed I thought, but he only came on for short bursts. Morgan Smith was very good, his tackling was excellent and Sam Wilde was pretty busy. Far too many mistakes but some of the players looked jaded. Mind you, Widnes looked knackered. Another good performance by Ratchford, and Russell must have covered about 60 miles with his scoots.

Lets hope we at least get Clark and Westerman back next week. One big effort against Wigan and we can rest a few bodies the following week at Hull.

Hmmmm

in regards to Kevin Penny being dropped for tonight, this from Tony smith is all you need to know"Matty Russell probably caught the eye tonight"

no one had a bad game tonight but Matty Russell in no way shape or form was a stand out player what so ever.........ever ......neither did Rhys Evans do anything worthy of mention he just did nothing wrong.....

Kevin Penny would have ripped their left edge to bits.....

Tony smith may well lead us to the league leaders shield possibly even a Grand final appearance....but he continues to be an absolute hole in relation to the treatment of SOME of his players.......

Ashton Sims continues to offload like Jeremy Beadle while players like Currie and Atkins etc drop balls on more than one occasion, but its our true strike weapon and only player with genuine pace that gets dropped for a fumble.

I'm completely at a loss.........

happy we are top of the league but at a loss to the treatment of Penny......

If we want to win the LLS next week handling & discipline needs to be worked on,but i'm sure there will be a plan somewhere in the dressing room to cover next week's match.

How fast was Hill for that try ? Amazing & reminiscent of the Paul Wood 50 yarder at Salford a few years ago....i think Paul Rauhihi scored a 30 yard try down the wing in the same match.

We don't know the real reason he has been dropped and cab only speculate.

We won and are top of the league don't see why ppl are complaining our wingers are not ideal but we're winning games without penny so somthing is working