The Billinge Arms is where Briers and Gleeson can often be found staggering around.

There's a combination of can't run (Monaghan) and won't run (Briers)...and if your halves don't run at the defence all that the opposition have to do is pick up the support runners...

Scored at Saints.

HTH

I thought last week that maybe you were just bettered by a superb side. Tonight showed me that I was wrong.

You guys deserve better than that. There seems to be a common theme at recent under achievers: learnt all they know at the Dulls. Noble, McNamara and Lowes.

For me, the best business of the winter was Brown going to Hudds. I think maybe you would have been better hanging on to Cullen until you could find a coach, rather than just appointing the drive and drive of the Bulls.

Alright, I'm a Wakey fan, but like all of us, I am a fan of the greatest game, and I want some other team to break the top two monopoly, and for as long as you and Wigan put up with more Bulls rejects, it's not going to happen.


Good luck, but don't start the revival next week.

Couldnt understand that you had catalans rocking in the first half, yet decided to take the 2 points instead of pounding the ball in again and going for it like they did to you in the second half.

I get the feeling that Lowes's system is making the halves look poorer than they are.

His stats show less than 1 penalty per game.

Sorry, but Higham is one of our better players. He looks absolute class, even in the poor team performances we have seen. Youir loss I'm afraid.

Bradford were not five drives and a kick under Noble. They were more like that under Elliott, Noble got them playing more rugby league.

The Bradford I remember which won SL titles used to have Henry and Robbie Paul tearing teams up the middle, offloading forwards like Forshaw and Gartner, or cutting teams up out wide with Hape and Vainikolo.

I would certainly accept that style of rugby league.

I would accept any style of rugby ahead of the crap we are producing at the moment.

christ who`s the other 3

I believe we have a 6 in Chris Bridge. I'm just waiting for the day he gets a chance there although I don't think it'll come soon.

I think you have a very long wait ahead of you there, warrington will never win anything aslong as briers is on the pitch he never clicks with anyone we always seem to have two individual halfbacks on the pitch playing two completely different games and not together!

Channel system, that

Ah that must explain the "I'm not backing him up over there its not my job" thing we also seem to have

Spot on. Playing 5 drives and a kick with a flat attack leaves the halves redundant.

I thought adding Nigel Wright as an Assistant Coach was meant to be adding new ideas in attack ?

Still waiting.......

Can do all kinds of things in training but if it doesnt fit into the plan then it wont be used.

I hope (if the current regime survies the winter weather) that in the summer when the ground firms up, we are not using the same tactics.

Been told he will be on the same flight home with his mates from Manly.

you can't have been watching Warrington very long then, out of his 57 starts for us, 41 have been at 6

As boring as it may be, at least we were finishing the sets against saints and getting good field position. Couldn't even complete sets when Catalan decided to wake up

Bollards.

Agree completely. It was Monas kick that put pressure on them on their own line. Chased it himself, made the tackle and made the second tackle that forced the dropped ball. Wire posession 10 out, bam, missile from Higham to Carvell 10-6. It's easy to moan but monas didn't do much wrong.

Agreed. But he also made a glaring one on one miss that led to a Catalan try (he often misses crucial tackles despite being generally very good defensively - lack of concentration?).

At the end of the day we need more from a scrum half and top overseas signing than being hard working - good passing game, ability to make breaks, varied kicking game etc.

Monas was ok. I just think we need to use him better.

Have we not noticed the different tactics being used for MonasN It appears Jimmy wants to use him at first receiver just to give the ball to Briers and then recieve it back to get the second rows involved in continuing to drive up the middle. Playing to game plan?