Lulling the hole league in to a false sence of security then spearheading are late serge into the playoffs. Hitting the playoffs in fantastic form culminating in are run all the way to old Trafford!

Even in the post match press conference last night saying we basically have no chance of making the playoffs. Lee you are not kidding me I have worked out your plan.

In Radford we trust!!!!!!!!!

Hi tactical genius is almost as impressive as your spelling, but not quite

You are right jake nothing is as impressive as my spelling.

Ouch!!

Nice response.

Your imagination is

We are still P-ss poor in the opposition 20.
If Radford was any good then surely we would have seen some improvement here.

In my best Brian Blessed, Shakespearean actor's voice "Begone foul troll, back under the bush from which you sprangeth"
Everyone is entitled to daydream, even FC fans.

Radford knows this and the reason we have signed two halfbacks.

Support play is the worst part of our attacking game and needs addressing. Every time Feka ran last night there should be someone with him, but no body was anywhere near him, same with most of our plays.

And dummy runners, speed and accuracy of passing out of dummy half, speed and accuracy of our passing in general, the lsit goes on and 2 new half backs won't resolve all of our issues

don't say that, you'll get accused of derailing threads by the pom pom set

All these were better last night and that's no coincidence that our forwards were on top and got a quicker play of the ball. Main problem with our passing is that we just pass the ball on before we draw a man, both halfbacks we have signed are good at this.

Thought Houghton was very good last night, good distribution and correct choices, including smart play for Paeas try. Personally think we looked better with him than Heremia last few games.

They may have been marginally better but were still way off what they need to be. Several times near their line, our passing was so slow and our attacking line so deep we lost 10-20 metres between tackles as they just moved up and closed us down easily

Agree about the attacking line, too deep, hopefully our new attacking coach plus new halfbacks will address these problems.

Have to completely disagree about Houghtons passing. It was shocking most of the time either around the knees or bulleted shoulder high at a man running at full pace. In fact 2 knock ons came as a direct result of it.

Which two, can't say I remember them, so would have to watch it again. I think some people don't rate Houghton and he had become a bit of a scapegoat this year, at times Heremias passing is slow and he takes the wrong option, but nobody's mentions that, Houghton makes a mistake and it gets picked up on. If the forwards are in control Houghton improves as he gets more time.

Hadley was one and IIRC the other was Westerman. It's not scapegoating it's plain for all too see his distribution is generally poor.

Find it hard to knock houghton, through all the e over the last few years, he's been pretty consistent and grafts his off every game, if he was a little smarter with ball in hand , I have no doubt he'd be playing in the nrl

Agree with this. It's the major reason our forwards seem to be jogging when catching the ball as they can't time their runs properly. On once occasion last night watts had to practically stop to catch a pass which was behind him. Improves significantly when heremaia is on the pitch

Whilst a win is great, some seem to be getting waaay ahead of themselves, Saints were gash from all accounts and had fewer halfbacks than us on the pitch. I said at the beginning of the season we would win some games even without a coach and Radford is still crap.
A draw against a very patchy Cas outfit and a win Friday and some fans seem to forget the dry bumming we got from the goons not two weeks back as well as the absolute shiate all season.
it's all well and good putting in the odd decent display but where was this all season?

Two fit halfbacks (for most of the season) will improve us but you can pretty much guarantee that won't be the case. we won't finish this low down next season (how the feck could we!) but some will still be lauding Radford if we get into the top 8 next year which is still a backward step.
Under him the players seem to have gone backward in almost every depratment this season!

I'd love us to smash it in 2015 but I just can't see it.

Really?

Feel free to quote someone getting 'way ahead of themselves'.

Agree with most on here. It was certainly scrappy at times, but a wins a win and we haven't had too many this year so we may as well enjoy the feeling for a few days.

The irony being, of course, that even in victory most of our shortcomings were still very much in evidence. Chiefly our inability to turn pressure into points due to well documented failings with ball in hand. Hard to fault the effort and commitment (particulary in defence) and it certainly feels better walking out of a ground after winning than losing.

I still have major doubts about the mid/long term direction of the club, but I'll enjoy the next few days at least.

Easy way to stop this would be to have them running off a first receiver rather than one out from the ruck. It's something we do when Miller played and further back when Long was here.

reality!

but hey ho, lots of posters are getting their knee pads on.

You just can't resist having a swipe can you?