I am amazed this has got no mention. The atmosphere last night was probably the best of the year, and I thought if any player can't get up for this game then why do you play?
I was wrong yet again Mr A looked disinterested and I'm sure he may even have made negative yardage, he was dominated every time and when we really needed him after the injuries again he went missing. Anthony England gets criticised but for mr he never shirks his work and has improved this year. It surprises me that Tony Smith seems to be letting Roy to get on with it, I was under the impression he worked with every player individually and I am sure that's regular reviews, I've seen no improvement this year and I am unsure how he can look himself in the mirror! Last night was a great game and twitter was full of praise from all sources. I was disappointed we gave away the lead however as a year in progress we have reached CC Semi and are competing at the business end of the season. Sims and Clarke will add some aggression and speed. You never know it could still be our year!

Are you sue you watched the same Big Roy?
Although I don't think he put too many passes in, he did run the ball up hard and it took 4 defenders at least to stop him.

He tackled as well as anyone during his spells too.
He was reminiscent of a Danny Lima last night.
He ran a decoy prop a couple of time and on one off the last play Monas made the daft mistake when Roy was about to be dummy runner of passing too him. Roy wasn't expecting it and took it flat.
Mobs made some poor passing calls but was defensively good.

As for Anthony England, he has heart but that's his credit on last night for me. That game was much too intense for him. Too many costly errors and one that completely swung the game with the daftest knock this season.
Within 10 of our own line and from that point we just couldn't reverse the territorial advantage.
That knock on was the pinnacle of loosing the game.
He just ain't fit enough at top SL level.

Big Roy has his critics and very justified this season but not v Bradford CC not v Saints but not at least last night. Give credit where due.

He didn't have a stormer but it was by no means his worst game for us, and there were far worse performaces out there last night. But I guess unless he's breaking five tackles and making 30 metres every drive then he's just not good enough. I've not hidden my disappointment with Roy so far this year but you're talking out arris here.

Oh and RD, putting 'tackled well' and 'reminiscent of Danny Lima' next to each other? I've never seen a bigger juxtaposition. Laziest I've ever seen defensively.

Business as usual last night for Roy.

Fair point GHF, I was thinking about his driving the ball up at the time and not defence wise.

I've had my fill now of him. I've given him all year and he is frankly dire. I can't believe he ever captained NZ. Never has a man shirked hard work as much as he does for a front row forward.

I'll say this again too.. Anthony England and Paul Wood are WELL below the standard for any top 4 side.

On the other hand how tough was Trent last night?

Roy was crap last night, at one point, he was running backwards better than he did forwards, adn then got drove back 15 metres,

Ineffective is a polite way to describe his performance. Following the injury to harrison and woody looking way off the pace, it was calling for a big effort off the bench and he only came on late, he had at least 30-35 minutes sat down, he could have come on and bloody skittled people, but no.

Compare that with Moz and that game against wigan with his knackered eye

When you compare any prop to moz they need to be special. Perhaps I seen it wrong. He looked a handful to me and drawn in 4 or 5 defenders with his drives.
Perhaps the occasion got to much for me and I didn't see the bigger picture.

Trent was everywhere last night, great performance....not bad for a lazy coward.

Look on the bright side, only another 30 odd games to go and he's gone.

Have to agree with the comments raised on both Aso'lazy' and Paul Wood.

You have to ask yourself the question, would this pair get into the Stains or Pies line-ups?!

Big Roy would probably suit the Wigan robotic structure for forwards!

Thought Roy went ok last night. The one thing I'll give England is he is enthusiastic. At least he's putting the 100% in, and I think critics are being overly harsh. Wood on the other hand looks completely useless.

Spot on.Think Woody needs to go + England should step up to the plate when he get chances which he doesn't seem to be doing + think i've said enough on Asotasi in previous threads so no point in wasting any more internet space on him.