[quote="wrencat1873":30czfbax]how close to a sell out are we, it cant be far off ?[/quote:30czfbax] To steal a quote from Salford, we are "within touching distance"

[quote="burtonsrlfc":3c62mjpd]First time that I can remember, coming away from a game delighted with the team performance, albeit miserable that we lost. Effort and skill all 100%. Special mention yet again to Mike who just isn't human with the mins and workrate he produces![/quote:3c62mjpd] For me, McMeeken is the difference. With him playing 70/80 mins a game in the front row it’s essentially like having 2 international quality players in the team. How long he can do it for, I don’t really know. When Rodwell and Atoni are back that’ll take the pressure off him hopefully but he’s unreal is the lad. Genuinely international class who if he carries on playing like this will walk into the test team against the Aussies later in the year.

[quote="Trojan Horse":2rz0s08b]Exactly, a lucky bounce off a crossbar was the difference. I said as soon as the ball was passed to Max it should have gone left to Russell. Max was under all sorted of pressure to get that kick away. But you know what. The players should all be praised after that. We will beat many teams playing like that this season. Keep it up because it’s working.[/quote:2rz0s08b] That small centre of ours didn’t look bad against Gildart did he

I got that lost in the game and the way we were playing last night, I actually forgot the players that we were missing. What is really pleasing is no matter who is on the field, we are playing very much the same, perhaps not as clinical and definitely miss a bit of punch in the front row but it`s a sign of a very well coached side and more so a sign of quality outside of our first choice 17. Years gone by, if we were missing 7 or 8 first team players, we would be getting well beat by most sides. I can`t help but think if we were as close to KR were to full strength last night, we would have been a good 10 points better than them. On a side note, how good are we to watch with the ball?

I went into the game and with the players missing that we had I was hoping that we would give it our best and keep the score respectable but came away thinking we could have won that, regarding Hargreaves, what a waste of money he’s proved so far, I’m 64 and could make more yards, they should have kept Storton, what a signing he’s been, outstanding

I was unsure how dropping into the Championship would be for us but it's really improved our expansive rugby. Our movement of the ball along the line has been superb so far.