Was that not Matt Richards, Pat Kings brother?

Only need someone to start on the players then!!!!!! wont be happy with a win (albeit in a friendly)

It could have been god i must tell Peter Kay about this station he can get years of material form listening to one game. God they were rubbish

Good win tonight. We played some good stuff at times. It was good to see us defend well and our attack was getting better as the game went on. We didn't give that many penalties away and only dropped the ball on 4 or 5 occasions.

It was a bigh improvement on Wakefield. I really fancy us to do something this year. In the second half when deacon came on and Tommy moved to hooker, we improved a lot.. the deacon/tomkins partnership is going to be great for us, I know its only the first game but the balls that sam is getting from deacon gave him the extra few metres/seconds to do his magic.. and it will only get better. Tommy also did well when moved to hooker. Roberts made a couple of good runs. Mossop looked good.

Really entertaining game.

In Madge we Trust!

Good to see Jack and Trevor are back on the airwaves.

Just got back-

If we cut out the silly handling errors we might just have a team on our hands. The defence was outstanding especially in scrambling back and sliding across and it had to be because they put themselves under an awful amount of pressure at times.

The plus points for me-

Defence was outstanding
Roberts looked like a new man
Riddell and Feka looking very fit and in Feka's case so much more mobile then last year
I thought J Tomkins and Hansen looked very solid in the 2nd row
Leuluai looked his dangerous self
Deacon showed a couple of cracking touches when he came on and set the winner up
Mossop just gets the job done with metres and tough defence

Negatives
Far too many handling errors but thats about it.

After the early Wire try, that was soft from our point of view ,I was a bit worried, but our defence was good after that. Our wingers kept wide all the time and didn't let Wire get outside of us up until the 2nd Wire try. Some people earlier were saying Roberts got skinned for this but Wire actually got outside of Pryce and Roberts had to come in allowing Wire to get it out to the wing man.
Roberts had a decent game and Sam had a couple of good moments which is more than can be said for Richie Myler who was anonymous tonight.



as pointed out it was Goulding on the wing at this point not Roberts but the point stands that it was Pryce who was at fault not the wing man.

Pretty much agree with everything you have said,especially about Amos. Looks like a completely different player from last year and looked dangerous with the ball.

Piggy looks a lot fitter as does feca who had a much bigger work rate. The treat for me was the brief glimpses of deacon and sam combining, we look far more threatening when we have the ball than we did last year.

It was goulding on that wing and the fault was pryce who got skinned by and didnt nail christ bridge thus causing goulding to have to move to tackle the centre, leaving riley free.

Pryce was simply done for off the mark pace.

Was it not Goulding who came in?

He came on with Pryce on that left hand side with Roberts and Gleeson being kept on the right.

The try was Pryces fault if anyone for not closing Bridge down quicker but to be fair it was a wow of a pass from Bridge to Reilly.

The biggest positive from the game was our defence. We always used to tackle with intensity, but tonight we also tackled intelligently. It looked like players were using their heads, knowing when to move out and make a tackle and when to hold back, as well as wrestling well in the tackle.
Amos Roberts looked more like the player he was in the NRL. He reads the game very well, and his try showed good footwork and also great strength.
I'm pretty certain the starting 13 from tonight will be the same against the Crusaders with the exception of O'Carroll, who tried as hard as ever but just didn't get anywhere. Prescott may have started with an error but he was quite impressive. He's a very good attacking weapon when he passes the ball and he offloads well, so I'd expect him to make the team.
Deacon and Tomkins looks like it has the potential to be a very good partnership, and there is clear improvement from Riddell too.
In the back row, O'Loughlin picked up from where he left off last year with a very good display, Joel Tomkins was also very good, especially in defence where he looked solid. Mossop was solid too, although Hansen still seems to struggle going forward, but he was strong in defence.
It's a shame about Pryce getting injured though, but at least we have cover for him. It makes you wonder whether he's ever going to get over this long string of injuries.