If Mellor is injured I would go with this 17, and Ipape to play the full 80 minutes. Asiata to half when Smith has a spell and Ipape going to nine with one of the bench going to 13.
1 Aekins
2 Ferguson
3 Chamberlain
4 McDonald
5 Inu
6 Reynolds
7 Ipape
8 Sidlow
9 Smith
10 Amone
11 Wardle
12 Stone
13 Asiata
14 Ioane
15 Nakubuwai
16 McDonnell
17 O’Donnell

That was a score line I didn't expect.

Sidlow looked like he got a tweak at the end of the match. Asiata rested for most of it.

Thought Inu was unfortunate with his binning, looked like a good solid hit, which he'd been doing most of the game and was one of the stand outs of me today.

Wardle did sneak MoM for me too but I think McDonnell was very strong and Smith was solid (it must be hard putting in such solid performances and then knowing your interchange is with the current "man" and you'll not get that much recognition as you go off) and Nakubuwai seemed to get stronger with the more minutes he did, but the the whole performance across the whole team was, I think, the most complete so far this season.

Taking the 2 at the very start got a few heads scratching around me but it was just to keep the proverbial score ticking over.

Halifax were a well drilled unit with some brief flare in attack but you could see, as it now the case, we'd done them over in the first half and they were spent but full credit to them for going till the end, including losing Gee.

Today was about the win, squad management and also making up for the near catastrophe at Barrow and all 3 of those were jobs well done.

Today was more like it. We were far too powerful for Halifax. The performance was efficient and dominant. No real standout individual performance, just a very good all round team performance with very little that you could describe as constituting a weakness.

All we need to complete the squad is a little stardust at half back and we will then threaten to become a very good team.

If we play like this against Fev a week on Monday, and having watched us at first hand dominate them just a week ago in London, then we will beat them again. We just need to keep the penalties, and the occasional act of petulance, to a minimum. Plain and simple will do the job.

I believe we already have a very good team but agree that a top 6 SL or quality NRL 6 would have us pretty much Super League ready (apart from overseas numbers) with only a little tweaking should we be promoted.