Warrington

Stefan Ratchford, Josh Charnley, Bryson Goodwin, Ryan Atkins, Mitch Brown, Declan Patton, Tyrone Roberts, Chris Hill, Morgan Smith, Sitaleki Akauola, Ben Currie, Jack Hughes, George King

Subs: Joe Philbin, Harvey Livett, Ben Westwood, Pat Moran

Akauola starting, bit of a surprise.

Probably the perfect game to give him a start. Will start off fast and furious and will the intensity will drop off sooner than your average SL game.

Currie off, looks like knee again. He walked off ok hopefully not to bad i would keep him off anyway now.

Akaoula done 40mins then.

Spoke to Currie after game he said he is ok.

Think Currie is going to be dogged by that knee injury. Personally I'd off load him.

A good opposed training session which allowed us to try different plays & different players. As for Tyrone Roberts,i don't think i have ever seen another scrum half going down so many blind alleys.

Feel sorry for Roberts , needs runners in moments like that .

Made some cracking passes to Atkins yesterday

Bob, understand what you are saying about the lack of runners and I really want him to succeed BUT for a highly paid marque signing for me he is just not offering enough. He has played a number of games now and it is about time he started to dominate and create more if not for the runners (whether real or imaginary) then individually. I don't mind if some things don't always come off but I want to see more things tried

And another thing ..... there was a try scored in the south stand corner in the second half and all the team went over to celebrate apart from one player who stood on his own in the middle of the pitch..... yes you guessed it.... Roberts. Not a good sign.

+1

A contrast in that to Andrew Johns

But if you watch the highlights from yesterday he is one of the first to congratulate the try scorer on most occasions and high fiving everyone in site. You are looking for something that isn’t there!

Exactly. Codswallop. I wouldn't be expecting my players to go jumping all over eaxh other during a procession in the sun. Roberts looks perfectly happy to me and if you want a player to faff about preening to the crowd that he REALLY REALLY cares then we'll sign that pudding LMS.

is It just because Roberts is on top wedge that everyone is jumping on his back ? Last year it was Kev Brown , this year Roberts . I’m just glad we’re not bottom of the league we would be having “Rocket Rodwell Esque” scenes outside the stadium

We do love to worry or be concerned about something. It's happy days for Wire at the moment ... so cheer up lads! It's hard to believe that someone is concerned about a player not celebrating in the over the top fashion that happens so much now. Perhaps he's got more sense.
If you like doom & gloom go and look at results at this stage last year.

There seems to be a few sensitive souls on these forums that require continued reassurance from our club that everything is OK!! That our antipodean signings are loving life and that all is well.

Guess what!! You ain't going to get it. There will not be a press release every 5 minutes because the sensitive people on RL Fans demand it. Let the club get on with managing the players and stop worrying you fragile little souls that player X is not happy and wants to go home, and all this is obvious because he was 30 metres from where a try was scored and couldn't be d jogging over for the traditional pile on. Get a grip people

This criticism of Roberts is Toby Kings fault for playing well.

IMO it's harsh to judge roberts yet, he's not been here that long the weather has been diabolical and he has improved as much as the team in general have. Our attack is improving, we're now regularly scoring 30 points which looked beyond us for so long. I'm not sure he isn't just playing to instruction as well, if he is and it's not painting him in the best light then I'm not complaining Steve Prices game plan is clearly working for the time being.

On the whole I have been mildly disappointed in Roberts. However, he does have a much better sense of when and what is the right pass than any of our halfbacks since we lost Briers. His kicking game is pretty good, too, and he has at least started now to take on the line a bit. I hope there's a lot more to come from him, but there is no doubt that the Roberts/Brown combination, this season, is the best we've had since Briers retired.

I said pretty much the same thing about our HB pairing being the strongest for a long time on the Roberts thread this morning.

My wife came to the game on Sunday, and from a casual observer's POV, she called out "that number 7" as being our best player, always involved, making things happen (although she's obviously not an expert on RL, or on picking up on his subtle facial twitches and body language like some of us on here).

He even comes over for photos etc as they walk around after the game.

This is spot on , Kevin Brown was saying saturday that the Partnership with Roberts just seems to be getting better and better and therefore allowing Brown more time on the ball himself. Hopefully by the end of the year they will be the finished article ..

The only absolute inept performance of Price's reign so far was huddersfield away. I think we can all agree on that. Roberts was out injured that day