we beat a very poor cruaders tonite,nothing to get tooo excited about but were off the mark

we need a good performance at wigan next week a win would be nice but its important that we get an improvment on the performance

Popped along tonight.

Your goal line defence was much improved, particularly in the first half when Crusaders had the bulk of the play. You'll need this next week.

Showed a lot more creativity with the ball.

Finishing looked a lot sharper.

Attacking kicking in the danger zone was good.

Need to improve defending from further out.

Kicking for territory needs a bit more work.

Obst better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Moa needs more game time.

Interchanges a bit odd...

No need to panic, no need to get over excited either...a stepping stone.

I don't think anybody in the right mind is getting carried away but it's an improvement. The improvement began last week for me at Hudds, the team defended well last week and put in a lot of effort and this week although against a poor crusaders team they showed even more improvement, that now needs to continue next week at Wigan.

We were better tonight, but still a way to go. Positives were:

- Better use of interchanges, even Fitzgibbon got a rest.
- We scored over 40 points.
- 2 or 3 of the tries were genuinely good rugby.

Negatives:

- We are still embarassingly disorganised at times. Silly things like our 2 props Moa and Lauaki stood only a yard apart at 2nd receiver not knowing who's getting the ball, or when following a break down one side and from the ptb we need to shift the ball quickly to the other wing, Radford is at 1st receiver.
- Still a few strange positional choices.
- Comments on here have been right; the play really does slow down when Fitzgibbon receives the ball, and he also threw a few bad passes out. Work rate is unquestionable and his tackling is phenomenal, but him receiving the ball early in the play is a weakness when we're in possession.
- Ball control is still sloppy, with some questionable decisions of when to offload.
- Kicking game still not good enough. Better than it has been tonight, but still only ordinary rather than good.
- Hard to get a read of how much better we really were, as the opposition were really poor. I was surprised at just how weak their pack was, first 10 minutes aside.

Fair comments

Discipline was superb tonight can count on 1 hand the amount of penalties we conceeded.

Our attack was pretty much the same as it has been for a long while the main difference is that in Obst we have a 7 who doesn't mind taking a whack and is actually a threat with the ball, was very impressed with the little fella my Man of the Match.

The winning the collision is still a poor area that still needs a ton of work as only Briscoe, Ogre and Moa tend to get a win for us. Wigan next week won't make the stupid reads in defense that Cru did tonight with a set line

Decent game from Thaler I thought. Barely noticed him.

Another true ish point.

Let the game flow, but was pretty lax with offsides and forward passes (although he did pull up a couple). Was the same for both sides though, so you can't complain too much.

got to agree the only mistake i can call him making was when briscoe and yeamen dragged a cru player into touch which technically is a penalty and whilst on the subject i think the standard of reffing this season has been very good

That rule is one of several that are applied very inconsistently IMO.

agree stupid rule but good to see the refs staying out of games and letting the game flow