O'Callaghan seems to have taken a step from really solid for most of the season to much more of an attacking threat - speed and elusiveness. I wonder if the try against Cas has been a good confidence boost.

Also want to put in a bit of praise for Rob Thomas (not that it's all about locals). Noticed his contribution more yesterday than I have previously.

I thought Calderwood was good too. Nothing spectacular but was keen did the work and looked to support the play. For once Lister is not being too ironic, but there was half a dozen ahead of him for MOTM.

Briggs only arrived midweek, and although he was fairly anonymous it did allow us to play split halves for the first time in along time, giving us a threat on both sides of the field as Briggs can move far quicker with ball in hand than Bailey, and that is not a shot at Bailey as he is a back-row doing a job in the halves.

I wouldn't have expected Briggs to do anything but be a facilitator and do the simple things, he allowed Gale to play just be being there as a genuine threat, if only his first game threat was him being there and having a little pace. You wouldn't want a debutant stand-off with hardly any training to be throwing wild passes and offloads, but hopefully over the next month he will become more of a visible threat, rather than just the first few minutes against Wakey.

I understand Riley has gone back home which is a shame

I know someone else has commented on penalties, but I have to say I didn't see too many poor decisions - by the referee. We easiuly outclassed Wakey and yet were happy to give away needless penalties. Not good.

That said, overall, a good team performance. Briggs looks a very useful player to me - and welcome back Dorny!

Kouparitsas and Temata were sat in the wings of the west stand in training gear so I assume they were available but not chosen... for whatever reason. DSWG wondered if Pryce had gone back to Wigan. He was sat behind the players bench, having a pretend fight with Lamont - both in civvies so had not been considered for the Wakey game... for whatever reason.

Both Monty and Karl seemed to enjoy burger and chips - athletes food!

Thought Dorny was injured at the end of the game..

Rob Thomas was really good! Just kept running at them - didn't stop, great performance!!

Jamie O has improved no end, good jinking runs!

Don't know if the ref's decisions were poor its just that they seemed a bit odd!

Thought Briggs was good in the first half, didn't see as much from him in the 2nd - and I just hope to God that Dorny's injury is healed for next week. He was holding his side following a tackle late in the 1st half and all the way through the 2nd.

I've often cricisized him but I thought that Jamie O'C was excellent on Saturday, best I've seen him in ages!!

Londo06 understands what I mean, it was not that Briggs was somehow outstanding, and I agree that Gale played better; the point is we had two genuine halfbacks on the field and that makes such a difference at this level. Playing one halfback and a hooker pretending is just not good enough at this level, especially as that hooker is solid rather than spectacular. Sometimes you just need a better balance and that's why Briggs was the key, not because he was spectacular, the team had a better balance.

It is a bit like Danny Orr, you really missed him when he was not playing, and we have missed an organising, controlling scum half all season. Gale will play with more freedom with Briggs on board they were the Donny half back partnership and know each others game. You can't expect too much from a young guy who has only been in town a few days. We need a tactical organiser who runs the team round the pitch, we have players who can do the fancy stuff. I think we did well on Saturday against a bigger pack without Temata. HKR should be a step up but if Dorny is fit we can at least give them a game. If JOC is an answer to one of the centre problems then we have a hope of (a) not finishing bottom and (b) getting a couple of wins and finishing on a stronger note. Encouraging.