After comparing the 2 sides before kick off and expecting a KR team with a point to prove after their Cas match I thought we would do well to even come close tonight so I left the game immensely proud and upbeat about the season ahead.

Powell post match comments are right, the boys are a superb team, showing up for each other and giving everything till the end.

Pleasing points for me…we looks so dangerous when attacking out wide, our defence out wide has also massively improved. We can compete with a depleted squad against one of the biggest packs in the league, we have more quality in depth than I first thought.

Special mentions to Jowitt, Storton, Pratt and Smith tonight who had fantastic games.

Finally, I’m not sure who had a worse game the ref or Jarrod W Hargreaves. Both were awful.

The ref had the worst performance but it was close.

Agree with all that, but on the last part would have Touchie Griffiths as the worst on ground, did not even see Burgess in touch, never saw a forward pass or a high shot.

Oliver Pratt was trending on Twitter last night after the game.
He's getting noticed and rightly so.

Don't want to ref bash, but he made some shocking decisions.....
Anyone remember the Kelepi tackled without the ball in the in-goal at Wire and he just played on??

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.

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.

I’m glad you’ve finally jumped fully on board the Oli Pratt Train. Lads a real talent.

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