I thought Danny was brilliant today, the kid was everywhere making tackle after tackle on anyone. His distribution and kicking seem to have improved massively and hopefully he will continue to push for an international jersey. hopefully Danny will be here for a long long time yet.

Also well done to Danny Nicklas on his performance.

Have to agree, he was immense today. Man of the match for me.

Great display from Houghton today.

Heremaia being out gives him a chance to establish himself as the starting hooker.

Houghton was class today. Man of the match for me by a country mile. Solid in defence and we looked our most dangerous when he had the ball.

Superb display today - energy and invention in attack and tireless defence. Stuck it to the Warringon side big time today. Reminded of these gems of insight:

Defence was great but again good teams target him so in attack he doesnt have much effect in the late periods which we saw today in his passing imo.

Just like the way we went at Monas aswell.

Great performance from him today. Seems to have gone up a level since last year.

No doubting Houghton's contribution and brilliance today. Any SL team wold have him. Don't want to see him burning out again, though. Need Heremaia to take dual control of the responsibility.

Good thing is, though, Houghton's proved there's no rush.

Thought the lad deserved man of the match today,he had a great game.He certainly troubles the opposition with his quick scoots and he puts plenty in to his defence as well.

Houghton was brilliant, in spells some of the best I've seen of him. Play the balls were really fast, tackle machine as usual and its plain to see that he is trying to add another dimension to his game with his kicking.

Superb display.

Great performance today, but can't help but feel that is because he is fresh after the off-season, by the end of last season he looked tired and ineffective. I hope Heremaia's arrival means we can avoid this happening, as on-form Houghton is one of the best hookers in the league IMO.

Top performance best hooker on the pitch. He made a couple of dodgy decisions but not surprising over 80 minutes. A superb effort.

be interesting to see the tackle count from today, he seemed to be in just about every tackle at one point in the second half. tickle put a shift in too in this area as did westy. we have had to replace fitz's 40 - 50 tackles a game with others chipping in and we did that well today

Danny had a blinder today quick hands from scrum when he packed down as loose man.
Looks like the team have been told not to let kicks bounce if they can catch. Couple of diving catches reminded me of gary kemble

After watching the highlights, Houghton's passes to both Tickle's tries were top drawer.

First was well timed from PTB to Ticks running a good strong line, second was a no look pass! Was class!

My MOTM yesterday, Very good performance from him and a decent kicking game.

His stats from Sunday look outstanding:

Try assists 2
Meters 97
Carries 25
Tackles 43
Attacking Kicks 2
Runs from dummy half 19
Tackle Busts 3
Marker tackles 3
Clean Breaks 1
Kicks in general play 7
Missed tackles 0
Errors 1
Penalties 0

If he can cut out that one error, he'll be OK. Let's him down does that.

He'll never make it as a SL player with efforts like that

Excellent work, well done danny!!!

Superb.

Thought he had a great game. if anything he was doing too much himself on Sunday and needed more support at times. He has really upped his game in the last 12 months and if he can continue to improve his running game and distribution then I only see roby as a better English hooker

It would be interesting to compare those stats to Robys, Roby looked great against London, but I net Houghtons not far off him this year.

Roby is a freak, the best player in SL for me, every week he puts in a great performance, would love to see him in the NRL.

His stats for Saturday are outstanding.

Houghton is the 2nd best hooker in the league IMO, and should be in the England squad at the end of the year, him and Roby would be an excellent partnership for England.

Houghton was outstanding and was easily motm. His improvement has been very impressive but even he admits he starts to lose his effectiveness in the last 20 mins. We should see even more from him once we get Heremaia back.