big Dave back,then comes the problem Finn and Grix back

The interview with Chester in the YEP gave me some optimism as he seems to have realised if it ain’t broken don’t fix it and alluded to stripping things back to what we were doing last season

Not a problem for me, best players for their positions, they've got their weaknesses but I still rate them higher than our alternatives.




A case could be made for the idea that things got swapped about, partly forced swaps and partly to try and turn around the results after all those close but no ceegar games.

Arundel is the best centre at the club, irrespective of how quick or slow he is.
If the basis of how good you are as a centre is how good you are at taking it up out of your own 20, then something's wrong.
He knows when to pass a ball to his winger and we're not using that enough with the pace and quality we have on the edges.
Got too carried away with having a monster pack that will steamroller teams, I hope this doesn't happen tomorrow.

Yup, I'm a big Arundel fan. However, the reailty is Lyne and Tupou have been good as well. It's a tough decision. All 3 have different styles.

I'll take a win over "fancy" stuff against KR

Another match day rivalry in the EW household.

Bring it on :

Come on Trin

Who's making tea ?

Not me.

They did ok for the first 5 games

Nice day for it.

Just in Ruddy Duck for a hair of the dog.

Team just announced. Half backs changed round again

Milky is on fire it seems

This !

You sould get a napkin for that egg on your chin!

As I expected, very comfortable. Although i underestimated how poor Hull KR are, they are destined for a major battle to stay in superleague without some serious recruitment. Same goes for Hudds and Widnes, you’d be lucky to make a competive team out of the three combined. We will be easily top 8 but probably no high than 7th. Heady days.

On another note good to see Miller finally come to the party, best performance of the season from him.

one to remember

A lot of good performances today.

Big Dave came on at 12-12 and went off at 38-12. That speaks volumes.
Thought England was immense today too. He'd have got MoM for me but in a big scoring game the runners are bound to get the awards and rightly so.
I do like our two hookers as well. This is their kind of weather and they will start showing their skills now I'm sure.

Ironically I said I thought TJ was having a bad game. He let a try in and dropped a bomb that gave them good field position where they bombed a try rather than us stop them.
Then he goes and scores 3 great tries.

Hull KR had a few missing today but they still put us under pressure in the first half. McGuire needed some help and it isn't Tommy. If Lunt had been playing I think they'd have been stronger. We'd have still won I think but at 12-12 they had 3 possible tries that were either bombed or only just stopped. Could have gone another way another day.

What’s for tea Mrs EW.

On a serious note, think they played really well today with ball in hand, but just a little soft in defence in the first half.

I think that was the most fluent we have been all season with ball in hand.

Agree on Miller, that today was his best of the season

Now we know who Eddie Hemings means when he says a legend of the game has picked the 4 MOM candidates

TJ scores his first try before he dropped the ball. He was no more guilt than anyone else of letting HKR score that was a team effort as the were all dreadfull on that occasion especially England.

Fifita changed the game in what was a monster spell they simply couldn’t handle him and it visibly lifted the team which is exactly what we pay him for and why we have supported him recently - he payed us back big style.

Don't kid yourself, Hudds are rapidly improving and a new coach will give them a lift. I am expecting 2 really hard games.

Finn was excellent today, his combination with is the main reason we scored so many points...

Once again I saw a bit of sparkle added to the team when Kyle Wood came on. Just think of the damage Dave Fifita could cause if he ran on to the ball from deep. Great game from both of them.

I'm not bagging Tom. I thought I made that clear by showing how the game can change your opinion of someone.
However, as you have brought it up.....

Tom's first try was just backing up someone else's break. Great try and if he wasn't there it wouldn't have been scored, but not all him.....but Hull KR's try came from him shouting out of the line, missing the interception, but then also missing the tackle and not tracking back either. The guy ran right at the gap he'd left behind.
He of course made up for it and he showed how good a player he is for those tries, but that performance is the difference between a really good player who will score loads of trys and be talked about on Sky.............and an England winger.
If he wants to play for England, which I think he is capable of, he needs to tighten up on that last 5% of his game.

Saying that, Hull KR kept opening us up on the other wing and I'm not sure why. It wasn't the winger as the overlap was created by the time it got to BJB. Lyne did some good cover tackling but I think it was more to do with their execution of the try that let them down. They'd done the hard bit to break us.
But again..........that is the difference between top 8 or 4 and bottom 4. Hull KR showed signs, but TJ playing for them on their left wing and they'd have got all three of those trys imho.

Points difference looks a lot better now. We are on exactly 0 points difference