Just watched the game again, Williams and Mulhern could cop a ban.

Mulhern maybe. Williams shouldn’t.

Mikaele looks exactly what we needed. Harrison I thought played very well and hopefully will get better wit match fitness. Wardle and Ashton are developing a good understanding already. Hopefully with improved confidence Matty A will back himself a bit more.
I get that Catalans had a fair few missing but when you think of the number of new players we have integrated in a very short time, this was a good display.
The younger players are building game time and don’t look out of place. Green shots of optimism for me.

a few stats from yesterday

mulhern 26 tck, 5mt, 0 missed 1tb, 16c 88metres
harrison 34 tck, 4mt, 1 missed 2tb, 13c 108metres 1 offload
clark 15 tck, 3mt, 3 missed 1tb, 6c, 46metres 1 offload

Mikaele 16 tck, 2mt, 1 missed 4tb 12c 81metres, 4 offloads
bullock 24 tck 5mt, 0 missed 2tb 13c 108metres 1 offload
holmes 27 tck, 4mt, 0 missed 2tb 6c 60metres

i might dig out some stats to compare holmes workrate in other games at second row, you'd say at first glance the players that switched between 13 yesterday did pretty similar, mopping up work rather than an extra prop. also clark did ten minutes at hooker at the end of the game as well.

Can’t wait to see what impact Mikaele can have next year (even this maybe) when the starting props have put us on the front foot. I can already smell (?) the sort of devastation our runners could have from broken play from one of his offloads.

kasiano and mikaele off the bench

Michaele, Kasiano and Paul Vaughan, opposition teams won't know where to look.

How did Dudson get on yesterday?

100m from 11 carries, 30 tackles, so largely in line stats wise with our props. Didn't particularly standout if I'm honest, but put a decent shift in and he's there to do the grunt work really, Kasiano and Mikaele will be there for impact.

Dudson had a relatively quiet game.

You know, this last few weeks has been such a downer I’d totally forgotten about Vaughan. Can’t wait. I hope he’s got a bit of grunt and niggle about him.

There’s some real quality “go forward” right there. Waited 5 years for it but we’re gonna have a great pack next year.

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/60 ... view-panel Nothing for us from that game has I said earlier thought Williams and Mulhern may have been in trouble.

https://www.rugby-league.com/article/60 ... view-panel Nothing for us from that game has I said earlier thought Williams and Mulhern may have been in trouble.

I think you are getting a bit giddy after the dizzy heights the team hit against Catalan. Just for clarity I have never used the term bellend, although I may have thought it sometimes on reading some posters.
Just stay away from the blue smarties and have an early night.

There were some really encouraging things in yeterdays game.
The defence was a lot stronger and you could see a lot of effort was going into controlling the attacking player to turn them on their back or to push them back. I have not seen that all season.

Unless I am mistaken since the England game George William's has switched sides. He played on the left yesterday but all season prior to that he has been on the right. If the new left edge is William's, Currie, Wardle and Ashton and they get the combinations right it could be a real threat.

There was always plenty of players to support breaks or chase attacking kicks. Every offload went to a pair of hands rather than a speculative offload ending up on the floor. When we had players running sideways across the defensive line there were players pushing through as options rather than players just standing and watching.

After the Widdop try and injury Catalan had a period of pressure, a Tomkins break, the Langi try and it took 5-10 mins after Widdop went off to compose ourselves but they did that. In previous games there could well have been back to back tries conceded. Catalan also forced a few drop outs and we gave away a few penalties and coped well with the pressure.

It wasn't perfect. We still put quite a few balls on the floor and fluffed 2 on 1 situations.

I am not getting carried away because I think that there will be many bumps in the road but it looked like the players had belief in what they were doing yesterday. It appears there was a commitment to a system that we have not seen for a while.

It was another poster who called you a bellend yesterday LOL - I'm not disagreeing with him/her.

I think it's you who needs to quit the hard core drugs and booze, you posted this two days ago

BTW, do you still think he should retire or would you give him more time?