Patrick had a virus & Tommy Lee got the nod ahead of Lunty. NB just clarified it on Radio Leeds.

bit of a surprise lee getting in ahead of lunt but lee was class today the way he sliced through there defence twice

Tommy Lee impressed IMO. Looks like he's lost a bit of timber and broke the line numerous times. NB knows what he wants from his hookers and to see where Scott Moore has gone since he thought he had made it and then look at Lunt, Robbo and also what Lee did today then he should rethink his comments about wanting to represent England! No chance!

Was a bit concerned when the rumours that Kev was to play at loose forward proved correct - but with a couple of rusty poor passes aside he played well. For me Grix was very good today also and our pivots and options were excellent. Well done to Leroy and Luke onn their 4 and 3 tries. Tommy Lee just gets better - what the hell is it with NB? He takes players that no one else wanted and gets them playing awesome RL. Can't wait to see how Tonks goes for us when he gets the chance!

Thought this one could have been a "banana skin" for us today - boy was I wrong!!!

Top of the. league and looking good.

Well done Giants - truly awesome performance - bring on the wire

NB said he chose Lee over Lunty as he could cover for Brown if he struggled. I was happy with every player today. Greg Eden is definitely one for the future, as mentioned above he may have tried a bit too hard resulting in a couple of mistakes.

I was speaking with former fartowner Paul Jackson who is now at Cas who rates Eden very highly. Said he's a bit "raw" but will be awesome.

Some difficult decisions for NB next week!

I wasn't really that impressed with Browny and if i'm honest i would have given him another couple of weeks as he didnt look up to speed - threw one or two wayward balls and seemed to almost get in the way of the halfbacks at time ...but i suppose match fitness comes with playing games.

Widnes were a very poor side i thought and needed some massive help from Ganson at times for it not to be a mammoth score, they created nothing and got a very lucky try in the end.

Thought Eden was very impressive again as was Fairbank, Crabtree led from the front with some good running and George and Leroy have shown today they will be a threat to most defenses this season.

Larne with a Virus???
Euphemism for disciplinary. He's gone out and bought a new alarm.

Maybe he rested him with an eye on the fact we have Wire next week and had Widnes today. Cover for if we lost and cover if we won.

Oh dear. Is he a heavy sleeper? Anyways, the rest will do him good.

Now that was an in impressive 80 mins to say the least , how much better can we get ?, wait till the 1st team turn up.

Saw lunty at the game he said his body wasn't quite up to it today!!! Despite that I think he was rested for nb ready for next week As he has only just recovered from injury- same for larne I suspect.

Hey thats what he said to me kev Brown finished with his ankle strapped with ice again he said it was precautionary but still he was limping down the tunnel! Today was just too easy next week is the real test no offence to Widnes but they were quite clueless at times left us to dictate it too many times!

who's this greg eden character?.. never heard him mentioned before

Widens we're appalling yesterday, it's going to be a long old season for them. Well done to all the fans that made it over.

Give him a couple of years he will be pure class, fantastic acceleration and enthusiasm, good support player and positionally sound and still only 21, will iron out the errors with more apps for the first team no doubt.

Thought we played brilliantly yesterday, we had our usual lapse for their try but with 20min remaining i was expecting us to do our usual foot off the gas and concede 2/3 tries so that was quite pleasing. Big test next week against Wire.