Good hit out for the lads!!

Plenty of try scorers

Should be....otherwise that'd be alot of drop goals!!

Sounds like a good run out. I fear that the game at Leigh could be somewhat closer...

How did young Latus go?

1 or 2 players could have scored a few between them, so not quite!!

A good run out yes, but with a score like that you can only guess not a hard hit out. I expect the guys maybe happy with that,just to get on a pitch and to play some rugby. Can only guess once they had got a lead,they were able to try out some plays they may want to try against Leigh.

But like surreyben has said it will be harder up at Leigh and alot closer. As Leigh would have had at least 2/3 warm up games before they met us so will be a bit more match fit, therefore maybe could give the guys a better hit out.

But still well done guys and hope the young guys got a good workout from this,can only do them good.

Quins got a decent work out for a first game. In particular Skolars had a lot of the game for the first half hour and for a long time it was just 12-6. Some random observations from the game:-

1) Ganson was ref and was very whistle happy giving plenty of penalties
2) Mike Burnett looked very impressive running out wide
3) When he entered the fray young prop Rob Thomas also looked impressive with line busting runs
4) Initially our new Aussies struggled with ball retention but Chris Bailey in particular looked more than useful in later spells
5) Nice to see Mark Calderwood on the field in Quins colours

now now lets not start having a go at the ref!
all the penalties were as per the rules of the game! In the second half he let the game flow a little bit more giving the boys a little more lea way in the tackle and time to release.

Observations!
Too many penalties given away, Mr Ganson set his stall out very early and blew up for not releasing quick enough! Profesional players should be able to react to that. If you lay on/turtle/or have a hand on the ball in a normal tackle then you will be penalised
Players need to know the rules of the game, whats the difference with a surrender/dominant and normal tackle and what they can do when they are called.

Skolars looked pretty competative in the first half and some bloody good hits went in!
What was nice was support play when the guys broke the line

I bloody well hope so mate. lol

You say that in one breath and then say Ganson didn't blow so much in the second half-surely therefore thats interpretation of the rules and not the rules-And there lies the problem

Quins on the attack were very quick and looked better than last year

Wire-quin
I think if you watch all games the play the ball slows down as the game goes on, due to fatigue on both sides!

The ref will generally call the tackle complete! either by calling the tackle count! or something along the lines of "stand up" then the tackle count if its a dominant or surrender tackle! this is when the player should move if they have not already.
In the quote you highlighted, the ref did blow in the second half a couple of times for quins players spinning on top of a grounded player, this is what I am referring to with players knowing the rules, you can only do this on certain type of tackle!!!
In my opinion he did blow too much in the first half but it was the same for both teams so I dont think we have any complaints. In the second half he allowed the game to run a bit more, and again was the same with both teams! Thats all really you can ask!

So you are saying the ref was consistent in his making it up as he went along ?

It was Ganson, of course he was.