He was mistaken for Tupou for one try. That wouldn't have happened last year but Reece has muscled up a lot and it's allowing him to do stuff he couldn't do before. He's really starting to look like a centre and as his confidence grows and the pitches firm up you'll see more creativity - he's always had it just a late developer. Best centre we have IMHO.

He's been a frustrating player for a long time - but his old habit of looking for the floor immediately on contact has gone; maybe his extra confidence in collision has come from bulking up and feeling stronger?

Either way - he's still a bit suspect in defence, but his attacking play is finally fulfilling the potential he's always had.

Not sure he is, didn't mis much yesterday - especially the last one - we'll see.

Reece has made 67 tackles this season so far and missed 7 which is a 90.5% success rate. It's not the best at the club but it certainly isn't bad when you consider Tupou is at 86.8%, Johnstone at 85% Miller at 81%, BJB at 78.5% and Williams at 83.5% .............and Kirmond is 90.4%
Ideally everyone would be 100% or at least 95% and above as most of our forwards are.

And he was 5th highest tackler on Sunday with 21 tackles. I think the fact that he worked so hard to get across the other side of the field to help stop the last try shows that if he has a problem in defense, it isn't effort or technique. It may be communication with the players around him but that is not his alone.

That's good to see, but it's also when you make the tackles and he made some important ones.

You can prove anything with facts!

That's actually a very fair point - maybe the issue with our defence is communication and trust - especially on the edges? It's difficult to get a centre/winger partnership who don't second guess each other and fall into the trap of going for the man with the ball - and that can leave the wrong player appearing to have made an error.

Either way up - Lyne is maturing in to a very creditable centre - and that's great to see; easy to give up on a lad when the pressure is on.

missed tackles stats only really scrape the surface where defensive issues are concerned, especially for centres. For centres/wingers, I think most defensive "mistakes" come from poor decision making rather than actual missed tackles. for example, the decision whether to jam in or continue to slide when the opposition are throwing their attacking shape out wide.

For stats you would expect the guys down the middle to top the % tackles made.

Lyne has certainly improved and his main issue has been his decision making rather than his commitment and ability to tackle. Although I don't think he has the brightest rugby brain, I think his decision making has markedly improved over the last year.

Main person that needs to improve his decision making is Caton-Brown.

TBF it will take him more than two games.

TBF he is no rookie

I know but it will still take a bit longer than two games, BJB still hasn't quite got yet

I've not seen any replays yet, so what exactly DID happen when Murdoch-Masilla dropped the ball and Lyne got injured whilst winning us the game ??

Reece Lyne is a rugby god, nuf said !

I kinda was hoping for a bit more detail !!!

Just found it here .... www.skysports.com/watch/video/sp ... 22-salford I have just watched it half a dozen times to see how far Reece runs across behind the line to make that tackle....he goes from right centre to left centre....outstanding effort to win us the game...

Just found it here .... www.skysports.com/watch/video/sp ... 22-salford I have just watched it half a dozen times to see how far Reece runs across behind the line to make that tackle....he goes from right centre to left centre....outstanding effort to win us the game...

Wow, Reece covered a lot of ground to get involved in that!

Quote ="FIL"Just found it here .... www.skysports.com/watch/video/sp ... 22-salford I have just watched it half a dozen times to see how far Reece runs across behind the line to make that tackle....he goes from right centre to left centre....outstanding effort to win us the game... '" Yes, a phenomenal effort !

Quote ="FIL"Just found it here .... www.skysports.com/watch/video/sp ... 22-salford I have just watched it half a dozen times to see how far Reece runs across behind the line to make that tackle....he goes from right centre to left centre....outstanding effort to win us the game... '" Yes, a phenomenal effort !

Great effort and desire to get across to the tackle

devastated that he was rewarded with the injury

Anybody any idea how bad it is?

I know we have Arundel and Gibson in the wings so it's not a crisis but it is a shame for the lad if it's really long term.

After he'd played full on for 80 minutes as well, I think his work rate is underestimated by many - outstanding effort and great business to sign him up.

Yeah if only we had caught the kick off, Reece wouldn't have got injured! Great to see someone develop, improve and be motivated playing for us, well done Reece.

Love the reaction of our half backs when Reece goes in to bring us level. That looks like team spirit to me

He tweeted this last night...

"Not the best but certainly not the worse news few months hard work and get back out there with the boys "

Sounds pretty bad if he is talking "a few months"



Get well soon Reece

Great to see that desire. Here's to a speedy recovery

Cracking effort....best of luck to Reece in his recovery...

Sad news for a young man who has worked hard obviously to improve and who put his body on the line to win us a match. Get well soon