No more Jones bashing please, im usually the critical one, but hes taking the pivot role well and once he gets used to his 'new' team mates he will orchestrate some fine Fax performances, with his passes and Gannons off loads well have some good attacking options. He made some cracking flat balls and long passes today.
Sam Barlow a shoo-in for the Championship dream team, even before the seasons started, keep it going Sam, big things ahead for ya.

Ah! At last, well said...stop the DJ bashing.

Had a good game today, great offloads.
He is our best forward for getting us into good positions, we need somebody to shadow him as he will create lots of tries!

Danny Jones is going to be a cracking player for us this season.

Just wait until he has partnered up with Ben Black and he has settled in, playing in a reasonably settled team without umpteen trialists.

It seems that some people are expecting him to come in to the team and be an instant worldbeater - let the lad settle back in and get a few games under his belt, then lets see how he is doing.

Echos of Holly's treatment in 1999 here I feel - give the lad a chance!!!!

Getting back on thread though, I have to say that big Sam is looking good so far!!

Obviously you are a RL officianardo haveing seen at least 4-5 games. To lambast a player commited to the FAX cause, other than one who tried and failed to hold the club to ransom over pay is laughable in the extream. I'm sure in the comming months you'll see how much of a work rate, passing skills and speed the Jones boy posesses. For years I have gone to games and just watched only one or two of the players on the pitch. I beg you to try that ( if your attention span can focus so long).See what work rate the said players get through, then you can comment on how bad or good they really are.

For me the thing that has dissapointed me about Jones is his kicking game which so far has been bordering on poor. Its an area that we lack in and im sure MC was looking at that area when he signed Jones. He defnatley is capable of upping his game in that respect. On the eratic passing we knew thats what we would get when we signed him but we have plenty of others guilty of that as well. To compare him to Branighan is a bit unfair because Branno was in a different class and expecting DJ to fill his boots is a bit unfair.

I thought Danny had a good game but what I cannot understand is the bashing of a player before the season has even started . His work rate is second to non and I think he did put a few good kicks in. There is no use trying to compare him with Branigan because that particular player did not want to play for Fax at what we could afford. Danny is a local lad who should be encouraged he will make a good contribution to our team and I for one am glad he`s back.

Sure there were a couple of passes that were not the best today and a bit of ball went to ground, but thats just the Fax way, throw the ball around score some points. it won us a grand final last year.

Danny i thought looked good, twice the player that left the club a few seasons back. his control of a game looks good, his kicking game isnt bad, and he's a homegrown player and one for the future.

him and Blacky will form a good partnership and we will make a top 3 finish without a problem.

give the lad a chance

Hopefully jones will get better once his partnership with black continues

Barlow definate our best forward, and will go super league next year from what his dad were saying. He wants to challange himself and hopes it will be with Halifax.
He needs support as he has a destructive offload.

Cant wait for the Swinton game.

There were too many occassions where DJ got the ball too slow from the Acting Half Back which left him with little time to direct his kick, many times he was kicking with a defender in his face.

Distribution from the AHB needs to quicken, Beswick will definately improve this.

You his wife?

just an admirer of the best HB in the championship.... pure international class

Come on mate, he come from the Cougars and is still working his way into a decent championship half back. Im sure most on here would swap him for a Finn/Thackeray/Rooney

Certainly those players have much more experience than Danny but Widnes did offer him a contract for this year and he turned it down. So maybe he is also rated in Cheshire!

According to the Yorkshire newspapers we offer every bugger a contract.

Well this one was according to Danny`s Father Dave!

That's probably because on recent league form, any player would have improved your teams!

Tempted by a come back but..................................ill give you that one.

Yorkshire folk are full of it.

One name for you sonny - Mark Smith. You stalked him. Cape Fear springs to mind

Sam Barlow is a crucial signing he is nothing short of class and will be very important to our chances of defending our tittle and also adding the Northern Rail cup to our collection. As for Danny Jones he will be outstanding this season my brother even predicts him to be Championship player of the year and a Hull KR fan really rated him after seeing him on TV last season for Keighley.

Danny can do better we know that, he has not had a decent half back with him yet so yer give him chance.
We must get our kicking game together as we got lucky with a couple today.

Jones did really well to get some of those kicks away under pressure.

Id still have DJ over Thomas Coyle anyday. Its taken Widnes fans a season to realise hes not that good, it took us about 3 games.