O'Meley was fantastic tonight as was Fitzy and Manu. Cant take the mom away from Horney though 2 tries and 2 assists from his grubbers.

This will upset a few people on here especially the Cusack/Radders knockers but i dont think Sam Moa is up to it at the minute (yes i know its his 1st game) and he will get better. I just believe Cusack offers us more in workrate and experience. You dont play in all those Aussie grand finals if your a poor player. Id love to ask Adrian Morley what he thinks of Peter Cusack a real players player in my opinion.

And Richard Silverwood.....well the less said the better.

Good job Richards will play opposite Calderwood then

i think this is a good thing because it makes the opposition think a bit, when he gets the ball he might not just charge forward but instead offload it like he did to set up the try against huddersfield.

another good performance tonight, the forwards are working hard week after week (well maybe except our trip to Wrexham!)

its rare that we score so much at home also.

a few problems that need ironing out here and there, but stick Long in that side and we will look very good indeed.

Thought's..
I thought we looked laboured for much of the match barring the 15 mins just after H/T. Elements of last year creeping back. Short 10 by the ref didn't help much either. Cas did there homework on Briscoe , So why didn't we do any on Ainscough ?. Also , Where's the cut out pass. It doesn't need to go through everyone's hands to feed the winger.
We never got out of second gear and spanked 40 on Cas . Fook me , When this team clicks .....

Well if i hadn't gone to the match and just listened to gollums views after the game i would have thought we were terrible and lucky to get the win. The guy really cannot give credit to us.

I thought we did all the hard work in the first 40 minutes tonight. In the second half we took advantage of a tiring Cas pack and looked good in patches. Still some work needs doing but it is good to see we have other players in the side who can step in and create stuff when Long is not in the team.

Only a couple of negatives for me, Briscoes inability to take a high ball under pressure and his lack of positional awareness in defence. And a few sloppy forced passes when there was no need to pass. But overall very happy with the performance and you can see improvement each week from a lot of the players and the team as a whole.

I agree with all that has been said - our forwards were the greatest tonight but can I just throw in Ewen Dowes - He was such a different player to what we have seen over the years - yards - offloads ??

It was pretty patchy. Thought we weren't great defensively in the 1st half, and other than the purple patch after HT we struggled to open them up despite plenty of posession.

As for briscoe, he was left completely high and dry when they were bombing him. Where are the centre and 2nd rower giving him some protection?

That was pretty much how I saw it. I was concerned at half time that we were looking a little shaky defensively and hadn't looked like scoring too many points. We looked much better in the second half though and should improve again next week with Long back.

As I said before the game, Cas look a very average side this season. Think they'll struggle to make the 8.



He does need more protection, but he also needs to learn how to jump and contest a high ball.

Reading through the previous posts and posts on other threads I think people are being very picky!
Despite the 12 - 12 half time score line I was very confident and thought our go forward looked good. I thought we had to be wearing them down ready for the second half. We made easy yards, off loaded, we looked big, strong, Manu and Org were causing havoc. Tansey was everywhere (the fact that he's not in peoples MOM is a credit to how other people played) Horne ran at the line side steping rather than his usual ineffective 'stop' and step. Fitz and Dowes were also outstanding. Hall, Yeaman did nothing wrong at all.
Not everyone can have amazing games. If I was to nit pick it would be about Turner. His kicking game was very good but he seams to offer little go forward. He will make way for Long next week I think.
As for the Whiting issue... Yes he was unlucky to be on the bench, but there is no doubt Tansey offers so much more. Its about winning games remember, nothing else. It proves Agar has the balls to make tough calls. I think Agar acknowledged Whitings MOM last week by putting him on the bench rather than Danny H.
There trys... I was not to convinced Evans made the line! Chase's kick and chase you cant defend against. Briscoe did nothing wrong for the Ainscough try, it was the cover that was missing. The Hudson try worried me a little, a soft try from the dummy half if I remember right.
All in all I was more than happy last night. The best bit for me was how we looked so dangerous without Mr Long on the field.

Steve

Totally agree said the same at the game. Briscoe did what he could given the circumstance, he was never going to win the ball but he stopped Evans from scoring and held him upright but nobody came to assist, in fact there was nobody even close to hand. Defending a kick is a collective effort, we just seem to leave it to the wingers if they don't deal with it the opposition score.