Just said same as GIANT DAZ last night. We always make a mess after a good away win. We promote the home game as good as we can, and when a reasonable crowd turns up, the team always put in a substandard performance, making the future home games an uphill battle to attract extra supporters.

Brierley is another Danny McGuire. Does begger all but can finish given the chance. Unfortunately that team cannot give him a chance, so he offers nowt

As far as swapping him with Gaskel, we saw last year he can not play fullback

Lots of positives and negatives from last night however I feel pretty frustrated that we aren't finishing our created chances once again. I'm hoping it's just early
season-syndrome.
Confused about Rapira's role... not sure if Brierlys strengths were deliberately not used and very much questioning why Mason and Smith are sitting in the stands over Wakeman at this point in the season until he adjusts to new lifestyles, settles in and gets used to our training regimes.

Defence is an issue that needs sorting.. probably a priority.

Seb and ta'ai were brilliant. Leeming was outstanding and should start games to see how he goes. Broughs kicking out of hand is as impressive as ever.
Nice to see good attacking on our left edge too. Mellor has great potential.

I suppose we have to take Stone's comments on taking a couple of years to start challenging again seriously and take any win we can and hopefully scrape into that 8.

Agree with most of that apart from boroughs kicking- his long range stuff from hand is good but his short kicking game has been very poor.
What worries me is the same problems are still there. Still forcing those last plays and messing them up- whether that being the forced pass, getting caught with the ball or a poor short kick. Still clueless from close to the line- we made it so easy to defend against us in their 10. Still letting in tries down that RHS. Still generally poor defensively. Rapira at loose was a terrible choice- he's not mobile enough to fill those defensive gaps like Hinchcliffe or Lawrence can.
I can sort of understand why he's playing wakeman- he needs game time if he's going to improve and he can't get it anywhere else as he's not allowed to go dual reg whilst mason and smith can.

True.

He's also missed pre-season which is a big minus not just for fitness but knowing all the plays. He's also playing at a higher level for the first time in his career.

Lots of hard work and adapting to do - think it will be well into the season before we see him really settle down.

yep happens every time

chance to get off to a good start at home and we blow it with quite a few newcomers, hope they come back next friday but may have missed the chance again now

All can say is after the way Sebastine & Ukuma ran the ball up,the interchange forwards now know what they have to live up to,if they don't put the same effort in they are letting the opposition off the hook.

Rapira didn't look comfortable as the loose man,maybe better off the interchange

A fb joining the line looking so dangerous to the oppositon,how long have we been waiting for this.

Stone needs to keep building Brierley's confidence in terms of decision making,I think RB's capable of getting this right in the long term.

Yo Paulie...bang on that lad, Seb and Ukuma have set the standard now, can the others match it ?? they will need to !!

Yo Daz b me say u is gangsta with that call b - safe an summa dat b - touch.

Quite.

yes, will he split them up and put one on the bench... they are working well with each other so prob best to keep them together and stick rapira on the bench with either wakeman/clough... they need to try match our starting props


yes a full back joining the line, missed that for years!

Edited for accuracy.

Not with any real creativity or menace though. The last time we had any of that was with Hodgson.

I was really happy with what I saw of Gaskell in attack - he seemed to add something we have been missing. Definitely something to build on

for a few more weeks at least! till mamo is fit and ready

who knows we may see gaskell displace brierley at half back with brough