Micky, any player can have a bad run of games, doesn't suddenly mean he's never going to get his form back.

Big Junior gone over for his first try?

Rob I agree with you I didn't suggest otherwise, i was responding to the comment that you may lose form but you never lose class!

Into today tho if this is how we played at the last 2 away games am not surprised we only scraped wins
first half, painful to watch.
we are winning the ruck in defence and attack but there is no urgency, no enthusiasm.
second halfvwind at our backs we need to improve

Hopefully Hendo will put a rocket up them at the break, get our noses in front and try and pull away.
COYB!

A bit of daylight between us now 20-6

Not a very good game that one, we were poor. We had no clue how to play the conditions. Throwing long looping passes when there is a 40kt wind blowing down the park is just stupid. The one goal line drop out we forced we fluffed it and ended up tackle 1 on our own 20mtr line. We didn't even try and use the wind to our advantage
No enthusiasm at all. Too many daft penalties AGAIN, far too much dropped ball.
But the positives! it was another win! Dragon was good, junior not bad, sammut had a decent game.
Not sure the wing fullback combination worked.
I know the Refs have obviously been told to crack down on moving off the mark at the ptb and think we saw 3 today, there could have been another dozen so no consistency!
But a win is a win

Hendo has the complete opposite view to this. And with all due respect, I'm taking his word on it

High penalty count, but both sides were equally penalised I think.

That's fair enough.
But the comments from Mr Hughes on some of the plays told a story, if Hendo was happy with that as a performance then we could be in trouble.
On the right flank we must have thrown wild passes that got caught by the wind and went to ground at least 4 times.

The penalty count was actually pretty even tbh. Think there were 3 penalties for moving off the mark which were very pedantic, one was dragon, defenders were all over him but he did try to milk the penalty and it back fired and penalty went against him.
We were controlling the ruck in attack and defence but didn't use the advantage to get a quick ptb

A good win despite the awful weather and a dreadful pitch. The referee seemed to like the sound of his whistle, he was somewhat pedantic.
Sammuts was a clever try, using the wind to his advantage. Other than that we failed make use of it. In fact some of our plays were really dumb you cannot throw long passes in wind like that with any precision, yet we tried to. 40/20s with the wind behind us would have been easy, yet we failed to even make a serious attempt at any.
I hope Ackers injury is not too serious. He has been outstanding so far this season.
Thought Walker did well, was not a good day to be playing full back, yet he handled it well and got himself in a good position to take his try.
Be good to play on a decent pitch next week. we played our best rugby this season at Ealing and as you know, we lost.

Jossy b
That's 2 of us that have the same view on how we handled the game in the conditions. Do you think maybe Hendo was trying g to put a but if spin into what ever you heard him say?

Quite possibly mate, who knows?
He just said it was by far our best away performance out of the 3 this season to date.

Anyhow... The 2 points were the main thing.

Ahhh well there is the rub, we scraped a win at swinton and should have at least drawn if not lost at Oldham, so when you are comparing average against rubbish then he was telling it how it is. After the KR game that was a joy to watch the game at dewsbury was extremely poor.
But, yep you are right it's another 2 points in the bag.
We need to play better next week, hopefully the plastic pitch will help us, the pitch at dewsbury was not the best but gave seen much worse

How did Daniel Igbinedion get on for Dewsbury? Ex-London Broncos Academy, currently on loan from Castleford.