Yeah, I'm not sure what the point of having on the bench was. There was no obvious way to bring him on unless we had an injury.

Fair result, no complaints. Had a good go. Hope Satae is ok.

Anyway, we can all whinge about a few errors during the game but on the whole I thought we played well and it bodes well for the rest of the season.
Gale looked very rusty but I'm sure he'll get better.

McIntosh back after a number of weeks off, Gale with a strapped up knee, Griffin with a strapped up elbow.......

Did Satae being injured have any impact on that try, I didn't notice at the time, will have to watch again.

Just looked a poor one on one miss from Lovodua on first watch?

Pretty hard one to take. Two poor starts at the beginning of each half didn't help.

The Havard try was soft.

Didn't use Wynne off the bench.

Dumb end to the second half. Our last few sets were really poor. 2 Connor errors and the Luke Gale DG attempt helped seal our fate.

On a positive note Lovodua must be the find of the season. We best have a clause in his contract to trigger an extension.

I wouldn't have the last one down as a Connor error, Mitch should have catch it.

Yep no doubt about that, as another example of poor use of the bench. The times we have an unused player on the bench is a strange one to fathom especially when we were in a short turn around as just drains our energy.

Think Gale coming back in was why we looked disjointed at times. So hopefully will be all the better for getting that game out the way.

It looked like he got a dead leg after taking a drive in the set after his try. Looked to have ran it off though.

On Fields second try, maybe Mitch should've jammed in too?

I like that teams will now be taking notice of what Lovodua can do. Will get them another player to worry about rather than focusing most efforts on Jake. Great to have another threat that can make something happen out of nothing.

Maybe. We had the ball in a good area though. I would've like to have seen us work for the DG at that time in the game

Just watched the Field 2nd try again, would love to know how Satae being injured cost us that try like Bonaire said?

We should have set up for one at around 70 minutes when we were only 30 out but Gale kicked on the 4th. Very unlucky not to be given the scrum there though, it was a clear knock on and quite laughable it was missed.

Bad miss that one, thought overall Hicks had a decent game though

Reynolds fit for next week. I wonder if Lovodua will keep his place at 6 or used elsewhere. He's earned the right to keep the shirt for me.

I’d like to see Lovodua start at 9 to be honest and he’s shown he has the energy & stamina to do 80mins

I agree, he's looked more dangerous at 6 than Reynolds so far.

I like that it was just penalty sufficient after Partingtons high tackle. Don't really think it was a bad one but feel like previously he would have been given a yellow.

Hodgson was questioned after the game about Reynolds returning next week and he said something along the lines of Lovodua has done well "playing out of position". Made it sound like Reynolds would come back in at 6 and Lovodua move to where he signed to play. While he has done well in the halves, we've seen barely anything of him at 9 so I would be happy to see him given a shot.

Every one of his posts tonight has been a moan. Nothing to say about any of our tries.

Challenge cup quarter final is a perfect game for us to get back on the horse before a big derby game.

We look a much quicker team this season and combine that with the power we have in the pack and the experience we have in the control room and we should have a chance of being in the mix this year.

Our back up players also look a lot better and more confident this year. We've been doing it tough with injuries but still putting in the performances.

Fair point. Lovodua gives us many options and thoroughly deserves an extended contract. Reynolds knows he has to deliver if he returns.

Need to start beating the top teams. We haven't defeated Saints, Wigan, Warrington or Catalans in Super League since 2019. Sixteen losses and one draw since we last beat one of them.

Tonight we had the chance to win the game and being honest we should have done but we haven’t quite learned how to see out these type of games.
We weren’t at our best and wonder if we had one eye on next week?