all i can say was job done that's what we needed to do another game and another notch up in confidence.

Quite right. We had Aspinwall, Martin and Horne all either unable to return, or not worth risking further compounding their injuries (good call when your so far in front)
Not trying to make excuses for the last 15 mins as lets remember, Widnes had 2 players helped off and 1 stretchered off as well so where down to same number of fit bodies as us. At least it gives Gentle a bit of a stick to beat the players with at training and reminds everybody that there is plenty of improving left to do.

As has already been alluded too, i think the 10 min stoppage for the Briscoe injury saw us lose our momentum and possibly our mindset. Add to this a few of our guys left on the pitch had picked up knocks as well (seem to recall Lynch taking a good few mins to run off a foot or ankle in 2nd half) and you can maybe imagine the Cas game was at the back of some players minds already.

That said, we still almost added a couple tries if we just hadn't pushed the final pass when it was't really on so hell, lets just look forward to the next match with an ever increasing amount of 'optimism' (something folks in this part of the world have had precious little of in recent times).

We've switched off towards the end in all but the saints game this season and it's cost us 3 points so far. Still, good to see expro back to his usual self.

And widnes were absolute gash. Probably the worst side I've seen in SL since leigh were last in

Need to stop switching off at the end of games. 5 out of 6 games now we've leaked points at the end. Only against Saints have we finished as the stronger team.

I would just say though that I think Widnes had as tough a time of it as us. I know they had to take someone off in the first half but not sure if he ever came back, but they definitely lost another shortly after Briscoe as well, so I think they were also down to only 1 sub.

Don't think he likes me at the minute anyway due to our disagreement over Turner.

and we still. have the best deffence in league,must be doing something right

Happy overall but Widnes were down to 12 on the pitch when they scored all their points, so a bit sloppy (understandably) yes.

Defence is definitely much better, however at this stage we've only played 1 team who sit above us in the league so it's probably distorting things a bit. We'll have a better idea of things when we've played leeds, wigan, cats and hudds who are 4 of the best 5 attacking sides in the comp