Temata MOM for me as well. He was on for the entire first half, and returned again for the second half.

Some excellent performances yesterday, i agree that Karl Temata was man of the match, he never gives less than 7/10 every week.
A mention for Oliver Wilkes, who I know is not eveyones favourite, but whenever I've seen him this year he has always had a good game.
Also Dorn, Clubb, Howell and Gale were also pretty good, and great to see Andy Ellis at last, he looks like he will live up to all the hype.

Anyone know when BJB will be back?????

Top call, worked very hard last night, would be interesting to know who the players players was, as sometimes performances which get unnoticed by supporters are very noticable to those on the pitch.

The 2 awards in the bar both went to Dorny

I thought Gale had a great game after a suspect start. He is improving match on match.

Gale got plenty of stick at the beginning of the match, I feel he reacted to the crowd getting on his back excellently, something I'd like to see our fans so more often rather than constant sympathy/encouragement.

Gale was having a 'mare first 10 mins or so but got his act together and played as decent a 70 mins or so as I've seen from him.

BJB was interviewed in the Jesters Club pre-game and said he could be back in 3 weeks.

It was very pleasing to be 18-0 up given that, up until then Crusaders had most of the ball and territory. Our defence in that spell was absolutely fantastic. Given the emotion around the pre-match with The Last Post and the Minute's Silence, I wasn't sure how we'd perform, but full credit to the team. I totally agree with the comments on Karl Temata, Hats off to Luke Gale for some excellent goal kicking. David Howell had another good performance. Credit too to Olsi & The Poacher. I imagine the tries conceeded in the last 10 minutes probably p***ed off Mac.

I like having that TJ at our games, he always provides a talking point.

So, here I go, dwelling again on what turned out to be a non-issue.

Looked at it again on TV. Youngquest quite clearly had his backside over the line before he lost the ball, so I don't understand why the TJ didn't put his flag up. Looked at from the Sky camera behind Youngquest, which would be much the same view as the TJ had, you could see that he had his arm raised with the ball in the palm of his hand and his bum over the line. The fact that he dropped the ball is irrelevant, it was dead as soon as he went into touch.

EDIT: I suppose it's possible that the TJ thought he may have lost possession before going into touch.

Anybody?

Temata would be my choice of MOM he was superb. I sometimes feel sorry for the workhorses that go unrewarded because they don't score tries. That is not knocking any of the players as I think they all had a great game. Dorn's tries were great, but nine out of ten times we were in the right place at the right time due to Temata and the other forwards

Head brick nail.

We have been agreeing an awful a lot lately, I need a lie down

i know it's frightening when we agree

I totally agree with this and it is my point when it comes to recruitment as well. There has been a fair few calls for going out and getting a top quality stand off or half which would be good if you have a great forward pack to put him behind. I think that we have showed that when our forwards play well that the halves that we have appear to be different players. We need to build up our forwards so that we have a pack that can consistently dominate and set up a platform for the backs. If we do this it would also be a lot easier to attract top qualty backs.

We seem to be a different team when Karl is playing well and he was awesome on Sunday as were a host of others and under the circumstances I was very proud of the team.