I know Edwards, Hampson, Dermott, Lucas, Clarke (was coming through), Betts all come through the ranks...wasnt an academy then, they were A teams. When you say Halifax best prop do you mean Skerret from Bradford?

Just to sidetrack a bit, Sean O'Loughlin, best passing forward in Super League. Richie Myler is running a petition for this to be voted on and given sean his full backing

Where's the "like" button?

And a backline of
Round, Boston, Ashton, Fox, Sullivan, Bolton & Murphy.

I would also have Gunney,Edgar, Sayer and Jackie Edwards on the bench.

Some team that.

RG, an old timer on our allotment site was telling me today about a 'Jackie Edwards' who he used to play school boy Rugby with.
He said that the Jackie Edwards he played with was one of the best he has ever seen but Jackie had to finish the game in his 20's because of a back injury.

Is this the same Jackie Edwards do you think?

Yes, it is. He is Shauns dad.
No matter what a certain Mr. Murphy tells, just ask him who was the Lancashire scrum half at schoolboy level?

My mum who is 89 next month tells me that she went watching Lancashire v Yorkshire schoolboys in the early 1950s and it attracted a crowd of over 17,000.

In that Lancashire team were Alex Murphy, Jackie Edwards, David Bolton and I think she said Keith Holden.

Three of those players went on to play for Wire at some stage of their careers.

I have just rang my friend and he says that Jackie signed for Warrington at midnight on his 16th birthday and Alex Murphy signed for Wigan a week later on his 16th birthday. My friend says that although Murphy was one of the best ever, if Jackie had not been injured he would have gone on to be better than Murphy.

There are still a few teams whose pack have yet to fire properly or even get on the pitch. Saints will start to dominate teams soon and they will be a big threat. Even though they looked terrible against us I expect Leeds to do very well in the second half of the season. Peacock is a big loss but Kyle an even bigger loss in my opinion. Now Wigan. They will be a lot better when big Stu comes back but I think that Tommy L should be their main hooker. I just think he is a better hooker than he is scrum half. he didn't look too much of a threat even when camped on our line, he never looked like giving the magic ball to put somebody over. Yes it was great defence but there was very little guile there.

When we get back to full strenght we will be awesome.

We must have been really off the pace at Clarke's testimonial as Jeff Lima looked really impressive compared to friday when i didn't even realise he played until watching it back on sky.

To be fair to the squad of the last 5 matches, theyve ALL been awesome. Even if King and Atkins came back from injury,why would you put them in in place of Blythe or Evans, who are both on fire???

Its a great problem to have though with the possible selections.

I re-watched the game last night, don't know if this has been mentioned in this thread previously..

Bar the obvious try scoring, by brilliant passing/link work, I reckon, a HUGE reason in our win on Friday, was down to LEG DRIVE. Just look when we take the ball up, most drivers are met by 1 or 2 tacklers (before the best passer in SL comes in third man), yet we're still sneaking an extra 3-5 yards each time. Contrast this with Wigan's forward advances by their pack, and they're met with a brick wall, and no extra yards gained.

When Stains dominated teams in the past, it was down to them going 80 yards down the pitch via their expansive passing game, and their oncoming runners coming from VERY deep, and hitting the ball with pace.
We made HUGE advances by leg drive alone on Friday, without even getting to our backs getting their hands on the ball. Great effort all round

Wood and Carvell especially have been the best at leg driving.

Or that bloke with no arms in his disability adapted car...



I'll get my coat

Only 5 days to go to find out who's got the best pack.

Browny rested a number of key players today, I expect to see Crabtree, O'Donnell, Fa'logo, Gilmour, Brown and Hodgson back.

Only doubt was Mason who went off with a knock 5 mins from the end.

Bring it on

Harrison and Westwood were rested today.

A move that backfired big time







=#FF0000check your PM's

YED

Did it? Did you watch the game? It wasn't an area where we struggled to be honest. It was our execution in attacking areas. But don't let that get in the way of you once again proving you're a clueless bellend.

Come on Mark, TD had a much better view than you having been on here and you being at the game.

There's no need to get all angry now is there. It's just one game in a long season. You should just forget about this week and move on to what will be a great game next week.

I'm not angry at all. Just putting a bad troll out of his misery.

Is next week at HJ or Huddersfield?

Hudds.

What he said

Shouldn't you be focusing on your own team instead of enquiring about ours?

the 2 best packs go head to head in 5 days time, gonna be a belter guys,may the best pack win