We still looked a little lost at times with our 6th tackle option .

I am willing to put that down to the upheaval in the combos with the fullback centre wing n 2nd missing. Combined with being 2nd game

I got some real encouragement from last night's game. We were playing one of the favourites for the title with some of our top performers missing and then to lose Shaul and Westie during the game was a real blow. They probably just about deserved the win but although disappointed with the result, I certainly aren't downhearted.

Mixed feelings on that, but overall definitely pleased. A few cases of our play almost being there making it all the more frustrating to just fall short:

Great how we controlled so much possession and position, but frustrating that we still can't turn that into enough points.
Great how patient we were for a lot of the game in building pressure, but frustrating that we still aren't quick enough with our PTB & distribution to then stretch them enough.
Defence absolutely superb for so long and only conceding 7 points against a top attacking side is marvellous, but then it's frustrating how relatively cheaply we gave those 7 points away and how they were enough to see us lose the match.
Great to see us looking so organised (thank you Pryce), but frustrating that that still doesn't include enough runners or support play.

Our poor PTB speed is a real problem though, and when combined with a weak support/offloading game too it will just kill us against the good sides.

Personnel wise, largely a team performance but agree with the calls about Minichiello and Paea, Cunningham did better than I expected, as did Whiting. Much better than last year at centre, but then shone more when he covered fullback IMO, barring one error.

So overall, all FC fans should be happy that we appear to be making progress, but a few of the recent problems are still there and need to be next on the list to fix. We huff and puff well, but still struggle to blow the house down.

Totally agree about Pryce and Sneyd on the night, but still like the fact that Sneyd has a go at the unpredictable sometimes. Would rather have a half who's not afraid to try something if he thinks it's on than just play the percentages every time (as long as he doesn't pick silly situations to try them in, which he didn't).

Definate progress,a very even game which we could have won.
How Jordan Thompson never attempted to move his arm to ground the ball for a try ill never know.
Would like to see Pryce run with the ball more,and im beginning to warm to Sneyd who is not afraid to try something different.
the big worry for me is Bowden and Green.We lose a lot of impact when these two are together on the field.
Bowden continues to miss tackles and should have buried Clarke after he initially broke the line to score.
The problem is Feka is great going forward but we lose something in defence when he is on the field and Bowden and Green are hit and miss.Radford is obviously aware of this and no doubt will continue to rotate 2 of these 3 to try and up their games.

I thought Cunningham was great when he came on and certainly didn't look out of his depth

Well i have to eat humble pie i thought you'd bought too many journey men, your coach was pap and you'd be pants this year but so far 3 halfs of rugby you've not conceded a point and only 1 try in the the 4th.

My predictions will be well off now, Defence wins games more than offence top 5 easily if you play like this all season.

I thought cunningham did OK and gave us a bit of a lift when houghton had been flagging. Disappointed that bowden hasn't kicked on. He looked really good early last season but seems to have gone backwards since he signed his new contract. green not up to it IMO. He's massive and should be much better than he is.

We seem to be playing a pretty conservative style for the most part (lowest number of errors in the comp) which is fine for me if we can continue to defend well as the chances will come and we won't be playing warrington every week. If (and it's a big if) we can maintain the discipline (lowest number of pens conceded in the comp) then we'll go much better this season than I thought and should be in the top 8 come the split. Interesting that our number of carries and the number of tackles we've made are both 2nd in the comp which must mean that the ball has been in play longer in our games than average meaning our fitness levels must be good.

Great start which we need to keep up

A big part of that is the signings of pryce and minichello. Previously, if we'd lost ellis we'd have gone to pieces but seemingly not now

Tackle stats are done by adding up everyone's individual tackles rather than just tackles complete. So if it's a two man tackle its counted as two tackles in the team stats. So it could just mean we are getting more men in the tackle than most teams.

highlights up on the SL youtube channel, looks like Evans did score.