All Bradford signings really impressed. Gaskell proved doubters wrong - excellent. Going to be interesting when Mamo is fit for sure.

Clough & Ferguson both excellent.

Mellor looked extremely strong and think he will make that centre spot his own.

Symonds looked like a nasty one could be out a while.

Some good players still to come into the squad too!

Widnes and Leigh will finish bottom 2 100%

Are we saying Hinch back to dummy half and it's all okay on attack now then?

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I'm not sure Leigh will be bottom 2, out of this weeks matches Leeds need to worry again

You're welcome Paul

Gaskell looked very assured. Hinchy looked great, some nice touches from leeming but a couple of times he tried too hard. ferguson ran hard but some poor decision making by him a few times (and that pass to smurph was a mile forward.), ikahihifo enjoyed himself -and put in some big minutes, symonds looked good. Leroy proved his captaincy, jerry looked strong but was turned yet again on that wing defensively, mellor didn't shine but did nothing wrong-limited opportunity, wakeman again limited opportunity, didn't notice clough was on until they announced he was coming off,

Yo Paulus not understanding the grabbing defence on our right edge that let's in easy tries.Seen it all too often,yeah we know who they are they are so much more skillful than the left edge,so does that just excuse their soft 'd'

It's been going on too long now.

Think that pretty much how I saw it too.

Mellor looks to have potential and size.

Leroy was an excellent centre last night - one try and two v good assists.

Great evening - besides M62 roadworks coming back - ho this morning.

Sure Salford will be a sterner test - Widnes bottom of SL for me this season

That game will have done Gaskell the world of good especially mentally. Not played for 8 months and was safe as you like in his first game back in super league.

Looking like Symonds will be out so Roberts will get more minutes v Salford.

Good position to be in to still have Smith, Mason, O Brien, Rapira and Mamo to come into the side when needed.

I would really not rush Rapira and Mamo back as we should have enough in the locker room to see off Salford and Wakefield at home (My opinion) neither game will be easy but we should be looking to win both games at home.

I was impressed with Gaskell. If you look at the way Widnes play that pitch they play it completely differently to the norm on the last tackle- no high bombs for the FB to drop they deliberately kick it so it bounces, I remember Murphy having an awful time with that one year but Gaskell dealt with everything they threw at him brilliantly. Mamo may find himself on the wing when fit- which is no bad thing- if he'd been out there last night we would probably have scored two more with his pace!

Great result that for you guys 2 points away from home, Widnes is never easy. I will be watching Wakey at your place when I get back from Africa looking forward to that game should be good.

Hope folk don't get too carried away. We weren't totally horrendous but we weren't brilliant. Widnes had little strike power and were missing key forwards. Play like that too many times this season and we will be beaten by quite a few sides. - having said that the first game of the season away, on that pitch, can't have been easy for the boys. Some possibly never played on a 3g pitch (mellor? wakeman?) others rarely.
Two points is two points but a long way to go and improvements must be made.

What do you want ?? That was far better than last season when you were spinning the 'back the boys line' !!

We played a lot of debutants last night and they will need time to gel.

But all in all you can only beat what's in front of you and six tries to three two of which were really consolations during a period when the referee and touch judge had a brainstorm was a sound enough victory for me.

The starting 13 played over half an hour which was a good sign and is Clough the new Grix ?? For someone to say they didn't know he was on the field is ridiculous our section thought he ran in hard and took some stopping ??

Thought Gaskell looked the business last night and if we can keep him fit could be a real asset

All in all we looked better than Leeds or Saints the night before and it's one win we didn't have last year so job done fair performance move on to next week.

As i said on the drive home last night when we had our usual blip we would have lost that game last year, we showed resolve to not buckle under pressure and see the game out, last year we failed to do that on a number of occasions.

Confidence will be up getting a good result on that pitch.

I agree with Jools in the respect its nothing to get carried away about but a win is a win - more than we got there last year.

Widnes and Leigh will 100% be bottom 2 this year. They have lost Brown and not replaced. No Joe Mellor for 3 months and played 30 mins without Tom Gilmore.

Yes they did get alot of decisions in the 2nd half and I believe the Ref did gift them 2 tries pretty much and its very hard to play on the I pitch and they do play it well - cannot see them winning 1 away game at all (seriously) and may only pick up wins at home v Salford, Leigh & Wakey.

That was not our best 17 and I believe we will get much better. Wakeman will improve week on week. Mamo will add much needed pace. We have good replacement in Gaskell to cover the halves and FB and have excellent depth in McIntosh for the FB role too now. O Brien to cover hooking duties and good prop rotation as well.

I have a sneaky feeling we might see Mamo on the wing initially aswell.

I though Paul Clough made some good yards last night - would still like to see Mason in against Salford though - Mason is playing for Oldham this week.