Enjoy the Championship lampface!!

I said a week or so ago that one of my concerns about us being capable of winning the GF is the ability of French at 6. Smith quite rightly dictates how we play but he dominates it so much that French for the majority of minutes becomes almost anonymous and when he does get the ball he is quickly closed down. I think French kicked the ball once maybe twice last night? Peet and his team need to come up with plays that get French more involved and with more space which is easier said then done with an inexperienced 6.
On reflection the result and the performance is what I expected last night. Leyth are no mugs and they put in a lot of effort and made at times lots of metres which was a bit concerning. I wasn’t particularly worried in the final 20 minutes or so primarily because our defence, as usual, was well organised and Smith did some good kicks to relieve the pressure. Obviously we need to raise our game even higher and I’m hoping that Havard might be available to enable us keep up the intensity when Ellis and Dupree are not on the pitch. Hopefully Peet and the coaching staff can work on improvements over the next couple of weeks to lift us to the next level.

I believe it would count but the jokers at Red Hall might give him 2 games
Under the modern rules it will have to go up to the panel to be assessed, I also think Ellis might be in trouble too for a shoulder with no wrapping action of his arms.

Just on the super league website and saw that our semi final is Saturday 7th October 12:45 on sky and channel 4.

Bit of a weird time for a semi final.

It should.

It’s a sign of the times that every clubs fans (and players and officials I’d imagine) are on pins waiting for the findings of the disciplinary committee. French was a bit silly in doing that but there is absolutely no malice, he’s not shouting and bawling at him and is just trying to get his attention. I can’t say I recall the Ellis one but as pointed out, it doesn’t take much for him to cop a ban.

As for the game now the dust has settled, I wasn’t overly impressed with our performance as I said last night but it’s a game we really needed and we should be better for it. We will need to raise our defensive intensity a couple of levels in the games we have left but if we can do that, we’ll give ourselves a chance. We have more game breakers that most teams in attack, so in tight games, we can hopefully find enough big plays to win them.

Think it was always going to be Friday night Saturday afternoon but channel 4 won’t go to France.

Saints fans won’t be happy again that the first placed side gets a days less rest.

After Wire beat them next week it'll be no concern of theirs

Was the same last year Saints played on the Saturday

And we never heard the end of the conspiracy theories that the RFL were trying to hinder them

They love a good conspiracy

I''ll have a pint of what you're on