Yep your right, forget all his time in the NRL he has been consistent for a full month!

Well I for one am enjoying a bit of early season dominance from clubs this side of the Pennines and hope it can be sustained. The Warrington v Widnes game is a sell out on Friday which has only happened once before and it can only benefit teams in our area. Will be nice not to hear so much of the Yorkshire chants. Just need Leigh to get their act together now.

To be fair we have a few out: Dwyer, Dodds, Wheeler, Bailey, Laithwaite, Harrison, Ben Evans and Toby King injured at the moment. Plus Gidley, Westwood, Atkins, Ratchford and Clark all missing game time so far this year. The younger players who did a decent job last year, Johnson, Philbin & Patton are yet to get a look in. So I'm quite happy with our depth.

I'd agree we have been scratchy at times this year, certainly against Salford & Catalan. We haven't had that fluidity yet (Cas first half aside) and defence has been up and down.

I'd also agree we look like obvious front runners as thus far Saints, Leeds and Wigan look to have gone backwards. All 3 will obviously improve as the year goes on, especially when you get the Tomkins boys back.

It's far to early to start predicting the GF winner. Warrington have certainly started well and at the moment look like genuine contenders. The same as everyone else how they fare at the business end remains to be seen, one thing is for sure, if you don't finish in the top 4 you're not going to win it.

Like any other team if they suffer injuries to key players at the wrong time they will struggle. If Wigan don't win it is prefer to see a new name on the Trophey, Warrington probably offer the best chance of that happening.

If they can avoid high levels of long term injuries I think they will walk the LLS and will in all likelyhood also land the GF. Not sure at this point who can stop them.

There's a long way to go but they've shown already they're capable of playing some great footy. Whether they can keep that up through a season, with the risk of injury to key players or just losing form, is another matter. For the rest of the contenders, including Wigan, we need to show a lot more than we've shown so far.

I think that they are the best team at the moment. I feel that they will put a score on Widnes at the weekend after Widnes' huge performance v us. They will definitely be in the top 2 IMO, however it is a long season and sides aim to peak in September/October. My general feeling is that that they missed their golden chance in the grand final V us in 2013. I think they were the best team in the comp by a mile that year. This year, they've had a great start, much better than I expected but if I was pushed to name grand finalists I still come back to 2 of Wigan, Leeds & Saints. I can see them winning either the LLS or Challenge Cup.

After the Wakefield game I was in a takeaway talking to a couple of randoms, I said we had it in us to put a cricket score on someone but it just wasn't clicking, if we could just make the things 'stick' that we were trying then someone would get a pasting.

We still look rusty, we can be very static at times and we are over running the centre's and wingers and then coming to a grinding halt a lot.
Plus we are playing very high risk stuff, as you know with that comes errors.

Cas was the perfect storm, Sandow was finding passes and gaps and space almost at will and to be fair it wasn't Cas being poor it was Sandow being 10 steps ahead of them.
Sure he threw a face ball across the 2nd row and centre to hit the winger in the 2nd half that made me realise he had vision way above any other halfback (imo) in SO.

We need to iron out problems, I still don't think we have and by next Saturday I don't expect us to be unbeaten in 9 games, although I hope we are.

before a ball was passed this season I was hoping we would be in the mix for the top four. I thought Wigan would be the team to beat.

We were quite frankly a disgrace last year...and then we added Ryan Bailey and Jordan Cox to the squad...

But the key signing is Gidley, fit as a fiddle, and a non stop talker on the pitch, took the weight off Sandow who has since settled in the team and the Town.

Matty Russel is fit and starting at 1 every game and is getting us on the front foot time after time we missed that for big chunks last year.

and the calls that it is the worst league ever just because Wire are near the top ...?? I wouldn't expect anything else ...and I wouldn't care... we are back to playing entertaining rugby and if we win the league doing that then happy days...

And it must a shocking league if a player of the Calibre of Stefan Ratchford cant get into our side. with many Wire fans saying "I dont see where he will play...unless there are injuries..."

oh and Jordan cox has been superb so what did I know....

still hoping we finish top four...and not getting carried away unlike Widnes Fans..

jordan cox has been a superb signing, just goes to show both hull clubs have poor coaching.

Thanks jamie peacock.

Does this really merit a question after half a dozen games?

Not to put the mocker on us but 4.244140625:5