Pratt and Scott at centre too

7/10 performance for me, but even so we bossed Cas for 70 minutes of that game. I think Cas are in for a long season https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/w ... r-AA1xOL23

7/10 performance for me, but even so we bossed Cas for 70 minutes of that game. I think Cas are in for a long season https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/w ... r-AA1xOL23

[quote="PopTart":1nlbva5q]He fluffed his line on the break but everything else I thought was very good from Pratt Scott on the other hand is a star. Everything he did was class. He made Cini look like a complete novice. Thought the forwards played well with Hamlin-Uele especially looking great. In the half Trueman had some nice touches but Lino ran the game Thought Max looked even faster than last season.[/quote:1nlbva5q] Agree with all that. To think we have Johnstone, Russell, Doyle, Atoni, Vagana and Griffin, we look pretty solid. I feel a lot more satisfied

[quote="PopTart":1pcgoadv]He fluffed his line on the break but everything else I thought was very good from Pratt Scott on the other hand is a star. Everything he did was class. He made Cini look like a complete novice. Thought the forwards played well with Hamlin-Uele especially looking great. In the half Trueman had some nice touches but Lino ran the game Thought Max looked even faster than last season.[/quote:1pcgoadv] Thought Lino looked brilliant to be honest, he definitely seems to have stepped his game up. Thought Trueman was good, particularly his pass selection and saw some glimpses of the long kicking game, just need to see it more! Thought Russell went quite well when he came on as well. Good position to be in!

Top priority… if we haven’t Jowitt yet then Ellis should be camping outside his drive contract in hand and red carpet. Pratt has that number 4 shirt sewn up. Hes everywhere, the yards, strong defence and breaks he made and he has a huge engine. He had Wood in his pocket pretty much all game. Hall will have a tough job keeping him out of the team and will have to fight hard to get that spot. Hard to look past Pratt at the moment. Of the new signings. Mckmeeken strong in the middle. Storton had a good game, looked fit, got through plenty of work and he will be a good signing. Scott and Walmsley look like they will be a very good pairing on the right. Uele was strong, Rodwell was good too. I can’t believe I’m going to say this because I’m one of his biggest critics… but Lino seems to work well with Trueman and they both ran the show emphatically thst first half. Hard to look past them starting round one. Came away feeling for a bit better execution it could have easily been 50. Great to see the defensive resilience and structure from last season was there in abundance too. We will need that. Not get carried away ofcourse but the signs are that our pre season has prepared us very well.

Hard to pick a m.o.m I think our pack is very much SL standard and I was pleased with the halfbacks - yes, Lino was excellent tonight, but so we're so many. Those first half tries were top drawer! Good times ahead I think!