I thought Dan Russell was Superb tonight, played 80 mins and tackled and tackled and tackled, Hit hard in defence, took the ball up fast and aggressive, followed players up making breaks through the line, and helped drag players back and towards the touchline. Very impressive. Great to see Fitz back and was good for us, Leyland was ok but a few dodgy tackle attempts to work on. Jordy Crowther giving away the penalty for rubbing and pushing Kearys head really peed me off, so childish and unecessary. It was a good hard fought win, the kind of games that put you in good stead for finals

[quote="thelinesman":3voc04mp]Dufty needs to stop running his mouth off, if he keeps that up i can only see more penalties given against us.[/quote:3voc04mp] I mean, I know what he was frustrated about, in the modern game that is a penalty to us - but after how desensitised the game was last year, the early rounds seem to be a little better on that front. He just needs to get on with it and not react.

[quote="just_browny":1mmcrhpn]It did seem like that ref had a personal beef with Dufty. He pinged Dufty for using the ball to lift himself up once (fine), but that Pangai Junior did the exact same every time he was tackled and got away with it all night.[/quote:1mmcrhpn] There was a difference between what Pangai Jr was doing (which was absolutely a penalty a couple of years ago) to what Dufty did, there was no separation between ball and hand, but Dufty definitely lost control of the ball - it was a fair call I think.

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... arrington/ This is good news. Happy he feels good to go.

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... arrington/ This is good news. Happy he feels good to go.

[quote="just_browny":fzu2ft7m]I was pleased we won. The positives for me were: - Russell's workrate - Walker's leadership - Thewlis's proactivity in defence (thought he was a bit quiet last week) - Fitzy getting a run out To work on: - Leyland and Lindop both dropped off a few tackles - Crowther's brain melt - Dufty getting involved in stuff he didn't need to - King was anonymous apart from his try[/quote:fzu2ft7m] Agree with most of that but I think on the whole Lindop was superb last night. He did fall off the odd one but made plenty and his anticipation was excellent. He also was pretty inventive on last tackle plays with kicks. I don’t think we’d have seen that from Tai.

Russell was impressive last night, you can’t question his work rate. Maybe Burgess has uncovered a decent super league player. King was non existent he wasn’t even looking to put a shift in. And for the life of me please stop the fourth tackle play to Duffy