You bored on the KR board by any chance? Ah, back in the day...

I bet Lineham will love plying outside of Sa. The guy takes no risks. If he is 1 on 1 with the full back he always draws the man and just gives a nice simple ball to his winger. I remember him doing last year against Rovers when he Coul easily have gone himself from 1 metre out but he doesn't appear to be a selfish player, just wants to make sure we get the try.
tried flicking through the York video just to see the tries and missed a few but noticed Linehams try where again he just played an easy ball to Tom to waltz over.

Just watched the game. Pretty standard pre season stuff really. We looked rusty with ball in hand at times, but that would be expected from any team in their first hit out.

As others have said Sa looked very strong and BTW showed up well. Shaul was just Shaul. Wonderful broken field runner, but I thought Rankin's link up play was much the better of the two. Good news that his injury doesn't seem serious.

The halves were a mixed bag for me. I can't comment on the kicking game because we barely had one. The forwards were so dominant we hardly ever kicked from deep. Aside from the chip to Talanoa for his try I though Sneyd put some stinking short kicks in. Especially in the first half. However his range and quality of passing was very good. He threw one into touch near the end, but I didn't see much wrong with the pass. I just thought Talanoa wasn't expecting it. Same with Pryce. He had a couple of passes go to ground but he also showed some lovely soft hands at times.

One thing I really was pleased with was our line speed which I thought was really good throughout.

On the whole. A good hit out, but we'll learn a lot more at weekend.

I have been one of Houghon biggest fans and have stuck for him many times when he has been IMO wrongly criticised in the past, but not sure he is quite as effective playing 80 minutes.

I am basing it more on what I have seen of him the last two years and then fact we haven't had a fully fit player of his type since 2007. He may not be one the our best players, but I think he will become one of most important signings.

Pretty much how I saw it.

Me to. Although I was impressed with how pryce played . could be the general we need in midfield.