This

Andy Raleigh was an absolute monster today.

Has been for 3 games in a row now, him and Washy have been a real pleasant surprise this season.

Agreed by 99.9% of us just one desenter - he knows who he is



However not MOM or the best prop today, that was Amor for me.

However the consistent Raleigh is what we need, he allows for the younger players to have up and down games - so when Amor is on song Raleigh makes him look twice as good!

Cant argue against Aiton, without question the best signing in recent years down at BV and would probably get a starting shirt at any other SL team too.
I hope he can be tempted to stay for the long term but i doubt it, he will have been picked up on all the big clubs radars.
As for Sykes he has not only excelled individually, but he has given Smith a perfect foil too.
Cockayne and Fox were excellent outlets and Raleigh and Amor ran their blood to water.
From what i can recall through my delerium, i though Mathers probably had his shakiest game so far.
Credit though to all the players, it really was a blood and thunder whole team effort.

If Paul Aiton played for any other team, Eddie & Stevo would have been declaring their undying love for him at every opportunity.

I hope we can get him signed up on a long term deal before other clubs come knocking - he's outstanding.

This would be REALY good news!!

Mathers had a blunder and so did Cockayne as did Amor passing the ball when he should have held on and they got the ball.All 3 of them got over it and went on to play a part in a great comeback.As for MOM it would be equal spoils with Aiton and Sykes who both worked their socks off for the win.Credit to them all its some time since I stood on the terrace and felt as proud of the team 1 - 17 as I did yesterday and gave them a standing ovation after the final hooter.

My MOM's were: Raleigh, Amor, Wilkes and Southern. We won because of our dominant forwards in my opinion, these four were absolutely brilliant. We won the ruck, made lots off metres, and we were dominant in defence. Raleigh is playing out of his skin.

Forwards were great but Aiton created the gaps and our wingers urgency made a huge difference.

As they normally say the forwards lay the platform for your backs to finish off, Aiton did that much work that our forwards had high energy levels in last quarter thus helping us steam roll them.