dramas over now...we will pull away from these men now...

interestingly we have Myler at hooker.....hmmm

Duckie will be frothing at the mouth.

........ meanwhile Dwyer appears to be on permanent gardening duty.

Monaghan replaces myler at 9

Atkins score.

First break made by M Monas pass to Atkins and in he goes 16-30

R Evans in 16-36

R Evans in again 16-40

Atkins 90m interception. Hopefully that's what he needed.

Atkins in 16-44 fulltime thankyou and goodnight.

Atkins in 16-44 fulltime thankyou and goodnight.

Top job karetaker

4 from 9 in conversions not good enough

So what does that tell us then?

Tells me we need to find a place for Evans, Joel and Russell in that backline.

Russell was sounding lively on the radio, how did he look?

The conversion kicking is quite worrying.

Rhys is a strong powerful runner who is solid in defence. Could he play on the opposite wing to Joel? If so he could help give Atkins some confidence in defence and support in attack.

Booo

I love threads like this, witnessing the minor meltdown and then the brushing it all away once everything turns out okay after all.

We're having a better season than the last one so far are we not? I make us 2 points up on the same fixtures last year...

What crisis?

was very impressed with him looked lively and made a good break.

Russell coming on changed the game, because it put Ratch at 6, Mylor dropped to 9 and O'brien went to 7, we switched on 2nd half and that was good to see.
Ormsby try was a cracker, R.Evans played very well. Atkins still quiet but took that last try well.

Russell is a real handful hopefully that should sort us out for Salford.

There is still a long way to go yet before this team looks top four IMO. With Westwood bollicking Currie in the first half, then Bridge doing the same with Laithwaite, they look grumpy, out of sorts and lacking direction. London put everything into the first half, but were knackered by the second, dropping a pass to allow one Evans try, then passing to Atkins to allow him a free run to the line.

I think Myler played, I certainly heard his name on the tannoy. Asotasi didn't really do much more than Riley and there is no sign of his fabled 'off-load game' yet. Russell did indeed provide some spark to the team, and Ormsby was a menace with the ball, always energetic, always handing off, and good value for his try. One nice bit of class from Monas to make a try and Laithwaite also bust a tackle to make one as well.

Bridge fashioned a couple of tries, but we also had one of his daft off-loads plus a missed tackle to allow a London try.

An awful lot of work to do still for TS, and with a team that has at least two out of form players.

We still look like a team without a leader, no one is standing out to lead.

O'Brien looks better every match. Needs a long run at 6 just like Lee Briers got at start of his career. Everything else up for grabs.

Kicking - the wind was very strong and many of our conversion attempts were from out wide. Ratch hit it too high and it often got caught in the wind

Rhys - yes I want to see him on a wing for now.
I'd like to see him have a run against Salford.
Ormsby was strong but him and Atkins b%^^$ed for the (3rd?) London try.
Atkins still has a lot of work to do - he was pushed off a couple of tackles but at least he got on the try sheet so that will have helped his confidence.

Thought Laithwaite had a good game and could have gone in for a try himself but unselfishly gave it to Rhys.

There does seem to be some friction i the came - saw the Bridge / Laithwaite incident.

Russell - I'd like to see more before making a judgment

Still not convinced about our halves though.

Waterhouse played well and Westwood did his usual job.
Hill played well.

Credit London for their first half performance but we just didn't look at the races. Thankfully we're at the start of the season, not the end because we'll get stuffed by several of the top sides - oh we did- by Saints.