He did alright tonight for a player below match fitness. I thought he looked pretty good all things considered. His ball handling was very good, he took the ball in and even showed a bit of pace. I was expecting far worse given the reports in here from the friendlies.

Both him and Ainscough had good débuts tonight but I doubt Pryce would have played has Richards been fit.

Dave

Imo he looked like he wanted to be at home!

Never rated him and never will another of nobles bum boys

My opinion is based on a Bradford game at Wakey, when on a number of occasions he was facing a winger much smaller than him (Wayne Price, if my memory serves me correctly), when it seemed like he all he had to do was run hard and the other winger had no chance. Instead, he shimmied, tried to think his way past him, by which time the cavalry had arrived. If someone would just remind him that he is a massive bloke before he takes the field, then he will do okay, but I think he forgets that.

Fair enough but as I said I think he did OK given he clearly isn't fit. We will find out come October. Mind you why he isn't fit is another question which doesn't just apply to him.

Dave

thought he looked ok to. he did look like he was trying to run off a knock as did ainscough . but once again only a few positives from what could only be described as a p!ss poor performance

Unless he's changed. . . he'll always look like that. Or be off the park with a knock. He's physically a big lad with heaps of natural ability . . . . . but limited bottle, IMHO.

Hope you guy's pick it up soon . . . but not for the next two matches or at least the match after next

Rubbish.

IMO he really really didn't want to be on the pitch in the second half - Limped his balls off, until he got the ball, ran it in quite good and then limped some more afterwards.

He punched his weight last night, knocking defenders off every time he took it in, bit unfit but that is expected, he absolutly creamed one of the Cas wingers into touch aswell. He played well I thought, one of the positives from the game. If he gets a bit of match fitness there is no reason he wont be in the England squad come end of the season if he carries on like last night, I was impressed.

Tbh he did a lot of this last night too. He seemed to want to step round people rather than going through them and ended up virtually tackling himself on more than one occasion. He did look promising though.

Promising but what's the deal with his injury? Was the fact that he was limping after every tackle he took the result of his old injury, a knock he picked up during the game or just because he's a big drama queen?

He took a knock in the first half.