So no Trueman again but it sounds like he was always going to be 50/50 anyway, Atoni and Croft also missing but Vagana is back...hopefully a strong enough team to bring home the 2 points but Oli Russell needs to step up !!

They don’t seem to have Mulhern or Charnley back. Nice to see Russell back on the wing and Pratt to centre. Need an 80 minutes high completion and good composure to come away with summat here.

Well that is some win, I guess all the fine margins over the prefious three losses came through today.


Will be a real humdinger next week now! 

Lino missed a kick hope he does not get too much stick for that ,Great to see Tom go in from long range ,the way he took the ball for is second try was out standing .Have we got the best pack in Super League, beginning to think so ..Thought Russell at 7 did ok .in fact a great team  effort .Just getting fed up with absence of Trueman signed as a marque player .Came with a bad record  for missing games .Or am I expecting to much 

Don't think you're expecting too much re Trueman Legend,some players seem to be able to run niggling injuries off and some don't. Jake seems to be in the latter category.

Don't think you're expecting too much re Trueman Legend,some players seem to be able to run niggling injuries off and some don't. Jake seems to be in the latter category.

Don't think you're expecting too much re Trueman Legend,some players seem to be able to run niggling injuries off and some don't. Jake seems to be in the latter category.

Thought for a minute you were going to get through your post full of positivity and without a whinge obviously not, just out of interest you do know that Powell picks the team and if he thinks that a player isn't quite ready then he can afford not to play him especially with the squad we have, the general consensus at the match tonight was that although Trueman was available for selection it was decided to save him for the cup game who knows eh, if that is not the case and he is still injured then you'd be right to voice your scepticism about the player, one thing for sure, we'll know next Friday.

Your ability to be wrong never waivers. Trueman was never a marquee signing, you’ve completely misunderstood the idea. His injury record was well known and his wage will reflect that.What makes me laugh is the sheer misconception of where we were when we signed him. Contrary to popular belief players were not lining up to join a newly promoted club with a history of under achieving. It all looks very different 6 games in but at the time we signed Trueman we were not that attractive. Getting him, even with his injury history was a coup but also a risk but one we had to take at the time to build up the squad.

McMeeken must be in the early running for MoS - surely? Outstanding so far.

Thought the final score line wasn’t a reflection of how tough and competitive the game was, amazes me how a game can certainly blowout in the end. Brilliant result non the less. They really targeted our left edge in that first half to good success, though 2 individual pieces of brilliance by Johnstone certainly shifted the balance of the game in our favour I felt.

Behind a dominant pack, Hood is playing like a top 3 SL hooker. His defence is strong and robust and his RL IQ is so high, he can really create chances and loves a try too. If his form continues like this, keeps injury free and looks to want to continue next year, you’d be happy to see him go around again, his presence and personality is clearly massive in the team. Same goes for Pitts.

Thought our halves were a lot better this week after obviously combining more through the week as a pair. Lino’s kicking game was great, played the conditions really well, in comparison to lam who was error prone and set up Johnstone for more tries than his own team! Leigh’s completion rate was diabolical.

Only thing I’ll say about McMeeken is I can’t wait to see him come the end of the season against the Aussies in all 3 tests. I genuinely wouldn’t swap him for anyone in SL, it’s like having a cheat code having play 80 mins week in week out, though I think he did 60 mins last night.