Warrington Wolves

Stefan Ratchford, Matty Russell, Rhys Evans, Ryan Atkins, Tom Lineham, Declan Patton, Chris Sandow, Chris Hill, Daryl Clark, Ashton Sims, Ben Currie, Jack Hughes, Joe Westerman

Subs: Brad Dwyer, Ben Westwood, George King, Toby King

Still disappointing in areas.
Ratchford was very laboured in the defence of the first try and some of his running also.
Some poor plays from Sandow. Not doing enough to rubbish rumour tonight so far.

Happy to see Lineman having a crack and Atkins still knows where the line is.

Call me old fashioned but I thought that an incorrect PTB should result in a penalty rather than a dubious knock on call and scrum restart.

Well at least its been called consistently.

Only reason I can think of playing Lineham was to try to build his confidence but he had a mixed game for me.
Bombed a try, and thankfully Ratch covered his cock up with the grounding in goal, but fair play to him for getting stuck in when taking the ball up.
Far from our best tonight overall and the scoreline flattered us. We're not playing GF winning stuff at all. A lot of players bandaged up or carrying knocks from what I can see. (Westwood and King were good interchange props. Hill took the ball up well but does look a little tired).
I sincerely hope Koukash doesn't take his toys home. This side is far better than the previous ones under his rein and Watson/Sheens have the right calmness about them. The home crowds must be a real worry though.

The first 20 minutes aside I thought we played pretty well tonight. Sandow, Atkins and westerman were very good and ratchford a couple of mistakes aside had a good game as well. Tonight was probably the first time I thought we looked better when hill and sims went off after their first stints. Westwood put some real grunt in, I'm not sold on George King at prop (especially first carry from kick off) but he is playing solid rugby and has done most of the year. Him and his brother are great prospects. Patton had a good game as well.

whats the rumour regarding sandow?

Well, I don't know of any Sandow rumour, but to me he looks happier than a frenchman living above a house of ill repute. He's clearly enjoying his rugby, revelling in the freedom of the English game and loving the balmy summer weather. Either than or he's a very good actor and he's signing for Leeds in a straight swap for their entire team (plus cash).

Elsewhere, Atkins was superb and is playing as well as he ever has, Dwyer continues to prove that the day we let Higham go was the best bit of business we've done since we said to Mr Emirates "Sign here", and Westerman had his best game for us by some distance.

Good day at the office, not brilliant, not perfect, but good and improving.

Atkins is certainly improving with every game & that last Salford try from the scrum was basically caused by putting Atkins in the scrum & leaving a gap in the defence &,i think it was Hughes running across to fill the gap when they scored.
They look a different team when Dwyer comes on & he is improving with every game.
I thought it was a very patch performance though with still too many errors & i was completely confused at 22-8 up when we started playing panic rugby for ten minutes or so.
Good to see Kenny get one for Salford & for GO'B to have a regular starting slot.

The try from Kenny was disallowed

Was it ,can't remember !

There were a couple of occasions, in particular in the 2nd half with the Lui try, where I'd have liked Ratchford to put his body on the line to attempt a tackle, rather than (like last week) where he again did a bit of collar groping.

Dwyer exemplifies a guy who does this well, never giving things up as a lost cause, such a when he prevented the Kenny "try".

first half i thought dwyer wasn't as good as his usual standards, some of his DH passing(particularly to westwood) was a bit off.

The try saver though, jesus, it just reinforces he could be something bloody special, he's that desire about him.

I'm a fan of ratch at FB, as most will know on here, but after having about 6-8 matches at FB where he was bloody good, he has been having a couple of stinkers lately, and you're right, some crap line defence last week and this, which previously, he wasn't shying away from

But Ratchford looks so good under the high ball, struggling to think of anyone else in the squad being so secure!

He does take the high ball well, but whilst his actions can then springboard a quick attack I feel a bit less confident when he carries the ball 1 handed, and does an occasional risky offload within his own 20m.

I am reasonably happy with our defence as we rarely concede more than 20 points but we still give some soft tries and there are times when we only just gate away without conceding (kenny's attempt and the lineham grounding). We still look a bit soft around the middle when Hill and Sims are off the pitch. We are still making the tackles but we don't dominate and slow the PTB as much.
I hope Dodds will be back soon and I have not given up hope on Harrison. A bench of Westwood, Dodds, Dwyer and Harrison would be very solid.
With the ball we look like an Ferrari that has a couple of cylinders miss firing. The kicking game close to the line is poor (there was only sandow chasing his own kick when he trapped o'brien in goal) and we have a tendency to run across the line a bit like an under 9's team (That came off for westerman but the Salford defence was poor) while the rest of the team stand and watch.
Still a couple of errors in our game and the top teams would punish us.
Just little lapses in concentration at times.
Fine at the moment but does the team have the mental capacity to cut out the lapses in concentration for 80 mins for 8-9 games on the bounce starting at end of July.

Maybe Ratch playing with a knock he doesn't want to worsen with one eye on an England call up?

Must say ,i went to watch Saints V Widnes tonight,free ticket, & if you take Roby out of the Saints team they really are useless. I was surprised Widnes didn't win.

I think Leeds may have got their Mojo back

What has happened to Walmsley doesn't look anything like the player from last season, in fact starting to remind me of A England.

Shame on you Niners....-10 points start on Wednesday

I couldn't turn a free ticket down, but i have been depressed ever since. I am booked in for counselling next week & denied access to belts, shoe laces & tablets.

Couple of rounds of the Rosary would be a start ninearches!!