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Penguin.

london 06
its only a dominant tackle if the ref calls it as a dominant tackle!!!! so he was quite right to blow the whistle!!!

I am very happy with the win, I think it will do the confidence the world of good. I think the narrow defeats to Hull, Bradford, Catalan Dragons earlier in the season (all games where we were in winnable positions) really dented the confidence of the players following a good start.

I thought against Bradford there were signs that things were getting better. There was bit more bite back in the defence. The problem in that game was the attack didn't fire right and some bad decisions were made at key times for various reasons which cost us any chance of a victory. Arguably the performance against Leeds in the cup a few weeks back was a lot better than many were expecting as well. So today wasn't a total shock, but it was a good way to end the run.

Coming into the seasons I had very low expectations given the lack of squad depth, lack of funding that had gone into the first team and a relatively untested coach at the highest level. I fully expected us to be knocking around the bottom of the table. So to be four points away from the top eight with nine games to go isn't great (and not where the club should be aiming to be), but it isn't bad given the circumstances. Yes you can say on one hand that we are only above the teams who had points deductions. On the other hand we are not far of Hull KR, Bradford and Salford, all of whom recruited better than us and were fancied to go much better by many.

And for all the flak he has got on here, I thought Chris Bailey really stood up for us today and played well, so I'd like to single him out for special praise *ducks*.

Thought we played really well....














AND


WE WON!!!!!



woo hoo!! woop woop!!!!!

True, you do need to have the call, to verbally acknowledge it as a dominant tackle, but when the ball carriers momentum is propelled backwards towards his own goal then the tackle is dominant and the Harlequins player would have had justifiable reason to think that he would have that additional time. But as you say given that Hicks missed it then our player should have got off sooner and wondered what else he can do except go down the Sonny Bill Williams or Steve Matai route and stop them dead with a shoulder barge.

We won and the play offs here we come

=#FF0000take your squabbling elsewhere.

Penguin.

What a relief. After the Bradford game I really couldn't see where the next win was coming from; So what an improvement.

The addition of Briggs appeared to make a big difference because we seemed far more cohesive going forward and the decision making was far better - we were much less afflicted by 'headless chicken syndrome' within 20m of the tryline as has so often been the case in previous weeks. We didn't try and do anything that was too fancy, we cut down the silly errors, held on to the ball and completed our sets. We kept it simple. THERE IS A LESSON HERE.

Agree on the O'Callaghan plaudits - he was my MOTM too. Dorn back made a difference too. Feel pretty confident for next week as well, against HKR.

I have been impressed this year with how many yards we can make on a set of 6 with one or two simple passes but mixing up the first receiver between forwards, halves and backs. When we stop doing this the territory disappears and our play under pressure has not been great. If we concentrate on pressure/territory and not on scoring I think wins will come.

Noticed Calderwood was not in the 19 announced but played. Does this mean that Kouparitsas, Riley, and Temata who were in the 19 but did not play are all injured/unavailable?

I think Briggs looks to be the key, for too long this season we've played with one halfback and a hooker pretending to be a halfback, it just doesn't work. We had two halfbacks and it made it so much easier as the pressure is spread across the halves. Also, it meant we could play with two hookers in Randall and Ellis (the latter being one of our better players this season). It's not possible to play an entire season at this level with only one regular halfback.

JO'C was an absolute revelation at centre, probably best performance I've ever seen from him, and our best performance at centre for at lease two seasons. It actually gave us a centre partnership which offered different things, Clubb's battering ram physicality and J'OC bringing clever, jinking, broken field running. Perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised, whatever he's been, he's never shirked work. We definitely need to give J'OC a run at centre, hopefully with Riley or Pryce if they are still available to us outside him.

What a superb performance! so much better, yes the silly penalties are frustrating as that is what allowed Wakefield to get back into the game, O'Callaghan yes, Briggs but lets not forget Gale and Dorn they do make such a difference.

I was one who was uncertain if we would win again but now I feel a little more confident, lets hope we have turned a corner.

I agree we don't want to see arguments here between clubs we play! this is our board! I only visit the Saints board as that is the town I live in, often shocks me about moderators who should set an example!