[quote="B0NES":2yhiuatm]When the cricket scores are coming in over the weekend , I can see all eyes will be turning towards IMG and Tony Sutton again .[/quote:2yhiuatm] But on the flip slide York got a record attendance due to Rovers visiting and it seems Sheffield gave Wigan a game in the 1st half and Halifax have just kept Catalan to 14 points. I like the idea of SL teams being forced to play at lower league teams but they need to somehow find a format where the 12 'best' get drawn against the 12 SL sides. I'm never good enough at maths to work it all out and there's quirks like Toulouse don't enter to consider.

How have we let York acorn score against us??

6-6 after 20mins

Comedy of errors

Sounds like a load of bombed chances but difficult to gauge listening in from the sofa?

It was always going to be a slow start. A reasonable first half. You'd expect a more dominant second half from us as York Acorn tire.

Crazy amount of mistakes and penalties can't think of a more stop start game I've seen. Cartwright won't be in the slightest bit happy, must have bombed half a dozen tries through stupid mistakes.

Heavy pitch to play on, they scored o the back of two penalties and not been able to handle two kicks. Bombed about 3 trys with poor passes or knock ons. Just hoping to get through this without injuries.

First time we've scored fifty in a match since Sheffield in the Cup in 2022, also at Featherstone.

Easeh easeh! What where we all worrying about eh?

[quote="ComeOnYouUll":2h8rv05m]First time we've scored fifty in a match since Sheffield in the Cup in 2022, also at Featherstone.[/quote:2h8rv05m] First competitive away win since Craven Park in July 2022. Yes I'm counting it!

In to the next round No injuries Good minutes for a few players Onto Friday.

Job done. Hopefully no injuries. Only read the Hull Live updates and didn't listen in on radio but Lewis Martin sounded to be the pick of the bunch. Cust also sounded dangerous in the first half. But tough to really judge much based on the opposition. Hopefully a few of the younger lads gave Carty something to think about moving forward. Looking forward to seeing how the full 1st team gets on next week

[quote="ComeOnYouUll":31mpv42v]First time we've scored fifty in a match since Sheffield in the Cup in 2022, also at Featherstone.[/quote:31mpv42v] That's depressing

[quote="mwindass":3rzdsfpr]That's depressing [/quote:3rzdsfpr] Last SL win - Wigan 20/07/2024 - 203 days Last SL away win - Rovers 09/07/2023 - 580 days Last SL win outside of Hull - Warrington (Magic) 04/06/2023 - 615 days Last 50 point score in SL - Leigh 19/06/2021 - 1330 days Doesn't time fly when you're having fun?

Suppose for a bit if context Saints only put 38 past West Hull with a side containing the likes of Welsby, Sailor, Hurrell, Bennison, Murphy, Bell and Whitley. Well done to West Hull though must have been a good experience for them and it sounds like they gave a good account of themselves.

Wasn’t able to get there today but listened to most of it. Sounds like Martin, Barron, Balmforth, Cust played very well today along with involvements of Asiata, Ashworth & Westerman. Sounds like Balmforth is pretty fit now too playing at 9 and in then in halves. Credit to York though as they certainly gave it a go and made us work for the win. Through to next round, got some pts on the board and without injury so for me that’s very much job done. I’m sure there’ll have been things JC will have seen that he liked and disliked and will have them working on the not so good stuff ready for the trip to France.

[quote="Chris71":32z3u2qc]Wasn’t able to get there today but listened to most of it. Sounds like Martin, Barron, Balmforth, Cust played very well today along with involvements of Asiata, Ashworth & Westerman. Sounds like Balmforth is pretty fit now too playing at 9 and in then in halves. Credit to York though as they certainly gave it a go and made us work for the win. Through to next round, got some pts on the board and without injury so for me that’s very much job done. I’m sure there’ll have been things JC will have seen that he liked and disliked and will have them working on the not so good stuff ready for the trip to France.[/quote:32z3u2qc] If Martin and Barron played well again then they have to be our starting wingers. I don't want to see Briscoe getting in on just reputation, though I do think he has something offer as a squad player. Cust is looking a shrewd signing after all the head scratching when we went in for him.

Cartwright confirmed no injuries picked up. The players have tomorrow and Monday off. Training Tuesday and Wednesday then travelling to France on Thursday.

[quote="ComeOnYouUll":21sjspvn]Cartwright confirmed no injuries picked up. The players have tomorrow and Monday off. Training Tuesday and Wednesday then travelling to France on Thursday.[/quote:21sjspvn] Could be a good time to play Catalan if their attack is struggling, they didnt have kearey playing I don't think, but doesn't look great for them if they hadn't scored 61 mins in

[quote="Steve0":7082v4v6]Could be a good time to play Catalan if their attack is struggling, they didnt have kearey playing I don't think, but doesn't look great for them if they hadn't scored 61 mins in[/quote:7082v4v6] I assume weather near the Pennines wasn't great today and neither Fages or Kleary played. But yet it doesn't seem a bad time to play them.

[quote="ComeOnYouUll":orjoqp16]Last SL win - Wigan 20/07/2024 - 203 days Last SL away win - Rovers 09/07/2023 - 580 days [quote:orjoqp16]Last SL win outside of Hull - Warrington (Magic) 04/06/2023 - 615 days[/quote:orjoqp16] Last 50 point score in SL - Leigh 19/06/2021 - 1330 days Doesn't time fly when you're having fun?[/quote:orjoqp16] Fantastic stat attack there, I'm well impressed! When we beat Wire at Magic 2023 (a Warrington side who were top of SL at that point, I think) I rated our chances of being in the play-offs as better than 50/50. We were beginning to look half decent by then, after a stuttering start to the year, and there seemed to be a few promising signs of progress under Smith. Jump forward 14 months to Magic 2024 and we are a total shambles in losing badly to London in an abject performance in an abject year. I still have difficult getting my head around how quickly we went backwards at such an incredible rate of knots between Magic '23 and Magic '24. Still, that's now all in the past. Now that we are back on track and scoring fifty points again, I'm off to purchase my Wembley tickets before it's too late . Let's hope today's small step was the first one in something big, hopefully we can dream again!

[quote="BP1":2bycgc5y]Fantastic stat attack there, I'm well impressed! When we beat Wire at Magic 2023 (a Warrington side who were top of SL at that point, I think) I rated our chances of being in the play-offs as better than 50/50. We were beginning to look half decent by then, after a stuttering start to the year, and there seemed to be a few promising signs of progress under Smith. Jump forward 14 months to Magic 2024 and we are a total shambles in losing badly to London in an abject performance in an abject year. I still have difficult getting my head around how quickly we went backwards at such an incredible rate of knots between Magic '23 and Magic '24. Still, that's now all in the past. Now that we are back on track and scoring fifty points again, I'm off to purchase my Wembley tickets before it's too late . Let's hope today's small step was the first one in something big, hopefully we can dream again![/quote:2bycgc5y] That Warrington win was the fourth in five SL games which included the last hat trick of wins we had in the league.