We could do with whoever taught Harry Smith to kick goals last year - he was dreadful at one point IIRC but seems to not be an issue now?

id disagree, i'd say aside from his purple patch for gb honours hes exactly the same player he was. just undersized and not as good as we'd like him to be,

i mentioned this last week, interesting prop rotation last night, we currie, crowther and musgrove after the first set of interchanges. powell was held back last night and came on at hooker rather than 13 and philbin was kept back till the second half as well.

Burgess is giving us a fair bit to think about, especially after about 6 years of subs you can telegraph a mile off.

Totally agree Boss and from a Wire "were unlucky too" narrative does anyone think their first try had a whiff of offside about it? The timing of the run was fantastic and I'm not calling for a football type ten minute review ( we won after all ), but the VAR lines may have proved that the timing was too fantastic.

Great win and just the kind of game I was hoping for don't think many teams will come away with the points there. NTW

Yes, I couldn't understand what Hayes was trying to achieve there - just dive on it and try to score!

Yes kick up for backside for Philbs for sure in terms of limited game time.

Our go forward slumps when Vaughan and Harrison go off. Here's hoping for 2025 we can sign some prop forwards.

With Kasiano paid-off and a quota spot available currently, I am expecting to see another prop playing for us in 2024.

I'd like Mike McMeeken for 2025.

Doubt if he will leave Catalans and the lifestyle he is living there.

Could possibly have been tempted with the Marquee spot that Toby King currently has, but King has another year with us after this season.

Our right side defence was up against it last night with the likes of the experienced Hall & Gildart & the explosive maverick called Lewis , but they coped & will improve & i thought our overall defence won the game ,helped of course by a couple of HKR handling errors with our try line at their mercy. The Tyrone May try & his cut out pass for the right winger were superb rugby moments.
As for the goal kicking ,both teams suffered , but if Thewlis is to be persevered with he needs to be getting plenty of training field kicking practice in with Ratchford coaching him...a great goalkicker & no need for the expense of a RU kicking coach. Great to see Burgess sticking with the kids though & i thought last night's game was played in great spirit by both teams ,.very few penalties & a reduction in head contact.
Good game ,enjoyed it !

Wakefield bound

Good point. It was a clean game, that required very little whistle, and the spectacle was vastly improved as a result. Well done to both teams, and let's hope this becomes the norm.

Holroyd did a good stint in tackling, but it was he who gave an away a soft penalty that swung the 1st half momentum to KR when we were 10 zero up.
He technically had us 10-12 down at the break. So for all his good stuff, his daft penalty undermined the 1st half.