Was the game as good as the scoreline suggests, who stood out ??

We started slowly, but after about 20 mins it wasn't much of a contest.

Due to us or Barrow Michael?

Anthony Nicholson

No offence to Duffy (or Tommy Sale who picked him) but Nicholson should have won Man of the Match. He was head and shoulders above everyone on the pitch. Set up so many breaks, made some himself and his distribution was brilliant. Set up a few tries too. Going to be a big season for him I think!

Agreed, Nicholson was terrific and hopefully his late knock isn't too serious.

Thought we started off very slowly and so many handling errors came from us being a bit sluggish, but when we turned it on we played some dazzling stuff.

Ryan Brierley....WOW.

Brierley is rubbish, took him nearly 10 seconds today to score after coming on He was classy again today though, bringing him on late against a tiring defence is a brilliant idea.

agreed nicholson was my m.o.m thought parker ran the ball in well today and brierley class act.

Thought Hopkins was our best player TBH

Isn't it great, when the stand-outs are youngsters too?

We hadn't made a 'clean break' till Nicho came on, awesome performance by him, and Ryan Brierley.....how can we keep him on the bench ?
I know we have Martin Ridyard, but if we had an average stand off, Ryan would have to start every game.
Full credit to Barrow, 1st half, they easily handled our predictable attack, had a decent kicking game, tried different things, and were unlucky to be losing at half time. BUT 1st 20 minutes of the 2nd half, we were awesome, and also a mention for Stu Littler, he really does run the ball in hard EVERY time, knows sometimes he's gonna get 'smashed' by a 3 man tackle but he really doesn't care.

Craig Briscoe. Workhorse. Infact, the pack is so dynamic and mobile but get generates some good go forward and strong defence.

I'd disagree budgie, twice in the 1 st half we bombed try scoring opportunities by dropping a ball as players were going through gaps, Duffs was one, cant remember who the other was, perhaps Tommy G no 1

Overal a good performance against what will be a strong Championship 1 team , they scored 2 trys on the back of Stevo's favorite tactic, the little chip over, other than that we kept them out comfortably

Bringing on the secret weapon with 30 minutes left continues to punish teams, although nobody expected it that quickly

I understand the impact of the "secret weapon" however, when he is putting in a cracking performance every game, does he not deserve a bit more than 30 mins? By the way thought nico really did well today, speeded up the ruck plays with some great short passing too! The move from the scrum with his drop off ball to littler was class! Was my mom today!

Ridyard and Duffy aren't doing much wrong to be dropped in place of Brierley though? I'm sure we'll see more of him as the season goes on, and if the situation requires it then I'd think he'll get more game time.