Good performance against the Crusaders. I thought the attack was potent when it needed to be and defence OK, albeit we fell of a bit at the end

Ellis's distribution was crisp and good to see Olly score

Well done guys

Not sure what's up with Tony Clubb. Head-hunting when he wasn't going walkabout.

By the way, we'd have gone ahead of them if we'd kept out just one of their tries.

This was a very satisfying performance. We started slowly and got battered for much of the first half, but defended well and hit them hard on the break. Our 18-0 lead late in the first half was a ridiculous reflection of the amount of territory and possession enjoyed by the respective teams, but credit to Quins for defending so solidly and holding Crusaders up over the line several times. We had the same idiot touch judge who authorised that absurd try agaisnt Cas, and for a moment it seemed he would reprise that dispaly when their winger was bundled into touch in the corner and he seemed to OK it. Fortunately the video referral sorted that out. In fairness to Thaler I hardly noticed he was there and thought he was very consistent, which is all I really ask for.

Second half Quins were superb. It was great to see the incisiveness and and alertness close to the tryline exhibited in so many of our tries; Dorn especially was in his element.

The two late consolations for Crusaders were irritating, especially as this prevented us leapfrogging them in the table, but I'm confident we'll finish above them in the final reckoning now.

That’s not true-What he didn’t do was put his flag up. When a TJ believes the try is scored they go and stand next to the flag in the corner which he didn’t do. The ref went to him and asked for his opinion and they then went to the VR-Which is what you can do when it’s available.

Given the difficult circumstances at the club during the past week the guys did themselves proud yesterday. They played well, showed a lot of spirited defence (how many times when defending their line did they hold the attacker up preventing a try??) and were good in attack. I thought Luke`s Dorn and Gale were excellent. Did not see this sort of win happening and thought it would be much tighter.

Don't even try to defend him. He's the worst kind of official. Utterly incompetent. How on earth he can fail to see a player has been bundled into touch without getting the ball down - two games in a row - in the same corner - when he's right there is frankly impossible to fathom. And they get paid for doing this job!!! Thankfully we had the Video Ref to save us but it still leaves a nasty taste in my mouth that officials can miss things so blatant, and his uselessness made me feel a momentary pang of sympathy for Thaler - I really don't want THAT to happen again!

Great effort yesterday, especially given the circumstances and a joy to finally see Quins win by a big margin. I hope they can take this forward to next week and put one over a depleted Leeds side.

Solid two points but not reading too much into it, Crusaders were garbage.

Very satisfactory afternoon - the defensive effort in the first half was particularly good, I'm not that bothered about the two late trys as even the best teams tend to lose concentration towards the end of a game when they're that far ahead. Leeds, however, are going to be a different kettle of fish to the Crusaders who have never been that good - I should know as I've been up to Wrexham a few times to watch them.

Are you saying the TJ went to the corner flag to indicate he had seen a good try scored which Thaler over ruled? Or are you saying he didnt belive a good try was scored hence why he stood on the touch line and then spoke to the ref and between them decided to go to the VR. Can I suggest you watch the referees actions just before they award a try. See if they look left and right to see if the TJ’s are stood by the corner flags. If they are not there (particularly if they are stood 5 metres up the touch line) see what they do.

What sort of pay do you believe the TJ received for officiating the game yesterday? I suspect I spent more on beer yesterday than he received in pay.

Out of curiosity why do you think he wouldn’t give something you believe he had seen?

MoM according to Stevo was Luke Dorn who couldn't really be faulted.

But my MoM was Temata, supposedly 2nd row but doing the work of 2 props and on the field for about 75 mins it seemed. Time and time again he made good metres, usually carrying 3 or 4 defenders with him and he made plenty of tackles too. Superb performance.

LMS had his best game of the season.

Andy Ellis looked good too, especially considering it was his first game for 8 or 9 months, allowed Danny to be spelled.

Gale's goal-kicking was immaculate.

Plenty of other player positives too.

I thought that we got the best of quite a few marginal decisions from Thaler.

Temata MOM for me as well. He was on for the entire first half, and returned again for the second half.

Some excellent performances yesterday, i agree that Karl Temata was man of the match, he never gives less than 7/10 every week.
A mention for Oliver Wilkes, who I know is not eveyones favourite, but whenever I've seen him this year he has always had a good game.
Also Dorn, Clubb, Howell and Gale were also pretty good, and great to see Andy Ellis at last, he looks like he will live up to all the hype.

Anyone know when BJB will be back?????

Top call, worked very hard last night, would be interesting to know who the players players was, as sometimes performances which get unnoticed by supporters are very noticable to those on the pitch.

The 2 awards in the bar both went to Dorny

I thought Gale had a great game after a suspect start. He is improving match on match.

Gale got plenty of stick at the beginning of the match, I feel he reacted to the crowd getting on his back excellently, something I'd like to see our fans so more often rather than constant sympathy/encouragement.

Gale was having a 'mare first 10 mins or so but got his act together and played as decent a 70 mins or so as I've seen from him.

BJB was interviewed in the Jesters Club pre-game and said he could be back in 3 weeks.

It was very pleasing to be 18-0 up given that, up until then Crusaders had most of the ball and territory. Our defence in that spell was absolutely fantastic. Given the emotion around the pre-match with The Last Post and the Minute's Silence, I wasn't sure how we'd perform, but full credit to the team. I totally agree with the comments on Karl Temata, Hats off to Luke Gale for some excellent goal kicking. David Howell had another good performance. Credit too to Olsi & The Poacher. I imagine the tries conceeded in the last 10 minutes probably p***ed off Mac.

I like having that TJ at our games, he always provides a talking point.

So, here I go, dwelling again on what turned out to be a non-issue.

Looked at it again on TV. Youngquest quite clearly had his backside over the line before he lost the ball, so I don't understand why the TJ didn't put his flag up. Looked at from the Sky camera behind Youngquest, which would be much the same view as the TJ had, you could see that he had his arm raised with the ball in the palm of his hand and his bum over the line. The fact that he dropped the ball is irrelevant, it was dead as soon as he went into touch.

EDIT: I suppose it's possible that the TJ thought he may have lost possession before going into touch.

Anybody?

Temata would be my choice of MOM he was superb. I sometimes feel sorry for the workhorses that go unrewarded because they don't score tries. That is not knocking any of the players as I think they all had a great game. Dorn's tries were great, but nine out of ten times we were in the right place at the right time due to Temata and the other forwards

Head brick nail.

We have been agreeing an awful a lot lately, I need a lie down

i know it's frightening when we agree

I totally agree with this and it is my point when it comes to recruitment as well. There has been a fair few calls for going out and getting a top quality stand off or half which would be good if you have a great forward pack to put him behind. I think that we have showed that when our forwards play well that the halves that we have appear to be different players. We need to build up our forwards so that we have a pack that can consistently dominate and set up a platform for the backs. If we do this it would also be a lot easier to attract top qualty backs.

We seem to be a different team when Karl is playing well and he was awesome on Sunday as were a host of others and under the circumstances I was very proud of the team.

Karl is our best forward by a mile. He's certainly developed a good offloading game this season.
We really miss him when he's not there and I wish the club would go to the Cook Islands and get another one!