The second half was a superb example of attacking play, maintaining possession and scrambling goal-line defence.

Sam Powell was particularly impressive - busy all night, tackled his socks off and had played a full game on Friday. Also thought Sarginson caused problems and well done Scott Taylor for putting in a huge carry after being bounced on his head minutes before.

Defence still needs a lot of work though, particularly at the edges of the ruck where we were found out by the Giants.

Jason Taylor is he another new signing?

yeah, getting on a bit now but still does the business

Bateman is class. I said it when we signed him. Waney is going to ease him into the season to avoid burning him out like nearly happened at the Bulls. That's the only reason he isn't starting at the moment.

I'm delighted that Manfredi showed what he can do, and also a word for Logan, who doesn't seem to get much recognition. I thought he was excellent.

Fair play.

He can hardly deny it, can he?

He's now claiming that he did watch it.
However I know because I saw it that he originally posted that he hadn't. His original post was at 10:37 and then edited some 11 minutes later.

I challenged him on red Vee about a couple of things that happened during the game but he wouldn't or should I say couldn't answer. No doubt he'll try and do some research, but I guess one of the mods could confirm the editing.

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Thank you.

Give it a rest and stick to the topic instead of harassing me everywhere I go.

Agree with a lot of this, already I prefer Bateman to Clubb, and Powell played well above his years v NZW, looked very good.

Youngsters really stepped up v NZW, very proud of the young lads, to score so many points and nil the NZW was really good to see. For me the second half was a fair reflection, young lads v young lads with a few season pros mixed in, and we looked great.

Which is a contrast to the first half, played nearly a full team and were getting beat, for whatever reason.

Few well some controversial comments to come...

I actually think Hampshire looks better than Bowen. Bowen has proven his a great player many times over, lots of experience and knows the game inside out, BUT does he know our game as well as Hampshire, when linking up outwide Hampshire plays like Sam, running the arch dragging tacklers out of position, often throwing the dummy and looking for the gap, this as we know works well.
In contrast Bowen almost plays like a second 7 outwide ofloading and passing early trying to bring runners into the game outwide, this doesn't seem to suit Goulding who's strength isn't really as a strike runner but as a centre who draws his man and releases Charnley to affect.
I'm not saying we should drop Bowen, but it does require some thought.

Bateman offers more strike than Clubb. For a young lad its easy to see the hype he came with, looks a handful everytime, clever player, hit the line hard and has a good offload. Bateman needs to be easied into the game after Bradford nearly wrecked his body, but he looks the real deal already.

Sam Powell outplayed Matty Smith. Looked great out there. Lead the team well, very pleased he's part of our set up.

McM is world class. This lads progressed and development over the past few years has been outstanding. I believe if he wants an NRL club he's got one, he has to be in the top 5 9s in the world.