We have and can play better, but it was just a run out.

I was sat in the main stand with Brian Smith and the subs just below me. One of the trainers had the headset and walkie talkie and was taking to someone, obviously not Brain Smith as he was stood 2 yards away. Brian smith did make some suggestions, but as i could not see Stuart Dickens i am guessing that Stuart (or a.n.other) was in the stand and in charge of the team/tactics while Brian just added a few insights here and there.

How the hell anybody expected us to play well in that yesterday has something missing. It was a slog fest with a wet muddy ball on a wet muddy field a leveler. The game was riddled with errors from both teams. Thought fev run harder than us in the first half and had much more possession due to our inability to keep hold of it. What is annoying at any level is dive over tries from dummy half that's just not being switched on. One of the tries on halls side they just never got off the line so we're never going to stop them.it's about fitness and getting the lungs blowing the result is pretty irrelevant

If you're talking not being switched on then the one where nobody was behind the play the ball, kids stuff. Great thing about friendlies is to get those out of the system. I prefer friendlies where you struggle. If we were to have beaten Leeds and Fev easy and then do the same to Cas we'd think we were world beaters, human nature. However we'd get a rude awakening against Widnes if we played the first real game at Friendlies pace. Which is pretty much how we played all of last season.

I noticed the same about Walker. Hopefully he's kept his strength and his footwork.
He'll be a handful if he is fitter.