Hope they keep him, massive improvement!

Chance to give Bowden and Ellis some big game time here, games won now, see how they go with some decent time.

I'd give Ellis some time at halfback

They must have to do an interview where and be as boring as poss . But hay ho things are looking bright .

Good half that, a little scrappy towards the end.

Just hope we can push on and rattle a 40,50,or 60 winning margin.

I think that's what were lack in at the moment, and is the difference between us, and the likes of Leeds, wigan, wire etc.
"Killing a team off".

I wouldn't. We're a new team with new structures and and a new partnership at HB, I'd rather they get the chance to get more of an understanding - it'll be vital for big games.

Well done to the lads. Still mean in defence we showed glimpses of what we might achieve in attack if the rate of progress of the team continues. Granted Widnes are odds on to finish bottom and rightly nobody is getting carried away but the direction is good and there's plenty of further improvement.

Massive praise for Mr Tickle, Houghton and Andy Lynch and mention to Brett Seymour who had his best game with ball in hand so far for me. Defensively he must be one of the best halves in the competition to boot.

Good games from tickle,lynch and manu. Seymour seemed to be involved in most tries and was good to see bowden get more minutes who didnt look out of place in the first team. Also houghton looks like he's kicked on from last season.

Real good performance from the boys yesterday, bar the last 15 mins. First time our 1, 6, 7 and 9 have all clicked together in attack. Some of Seymour's passing was superb, thought Ellis played better then previously but we looked better with Horney IMO.

Happy days!

Cracking display yesterday. Lynch, Manu and Tickle were superb, Houghton controlled everything and McKinnon just linked everything together.

I was also pleased Ellis got some gametime in the halves and he did fairly well I thought. The pass he gave for ther last Tickle try led to a great flowing move.

Thought we looked a lot better with Horne on,Ellis is still way off.Big wraps to Bowden as well who looked very good.

Horne is still a very valuable and importat part of our machine without doubt

agree the pack completely dominated all afternoon and the backs getting combinations together for a couple of great tries.
Ellis played well just tried to push it a bit too much at the end with a no look pass with no one in support.
I thought Bowden did well also when he came on.

Agree although Ellis did well and his movement with the ball offers something different to Horne. 2 or 3 of Horne's grubbers in the first half in NW corner were superb kicks and he was a big part of getting us well on the front foot early in the game.

Another game of progress, pretty pleased with how our season is unfolding.

On saying that, we played for 30 minutes in the first half and 20 in the second. Whilst we played well for those spells, I’m a bit disappointed at the way we took our foot off the pedal. Don't think we handled the break in play well, it spoilt our rhythm but we shouldn't let that happen. Hope Gentle's not happy about it, either.

I always think there's a bit of difficulty in commenting on how players have performed in blowout games like that, as in all honesty as well as we played for most of the match, Widnes were equally awful. The first 2 tries were well worked from us, but the next 2 showed up some terrible defence from them, and that was the case all day. Some standouts for me were Lynch again, obviously Tickle, I thought Bowden did well in a decent-sized stint, Sharp had another good game, we saw a typical Houghton display for 60 minutes (Heremaia can't get fit quick enough IMO), and McKinnon was possibly the best of the lot. Seymour also looks better with every game to me, which is to be expected, even if it's happening slightly slower than we'd hope.

Mainly positives, but a particularly annoying negative with the way we fell away. We played some good stuff and racked up a score though, so maybe I'm just being a grumpy bugger.

no surely not???


you forgot to mention another solid outing from Jordan Turner mate!!! or doesnt playing Widnes count?

I thought the forwards were superb , There definitely laying the foundations for the halves to work behind. As said by other posters above , The only blip on that performance was the last 10 minutes.

I said before the game that even if he played well 1 more match is a step in the right direction but not proof he's the answer. I thought he did little wrong but couldn't particularly impress because the opposition didn't really test him. That's not a criticism as I thought all of the 3/4's were in the same boat, I only mentioned Sharp because he took a couple of kicks well, returned them impressively, and produced a lovely jump and knock back for Whiting's try.

I've always said Turner is very good going forward, and that's pretty much all he had to do yesterday, so I learnt nothing new. Having said that both tries did happen to come down his side. I haven't seen the highlights yet and I sit in the South West corner, pretty much as far away from them as possible, so I'm not blaming him for them, just pointing something out.

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Would you believe it. Its also the side that Tom Briscoe plays but I notice you haven't drawn him into this conversation.

Listening to Gentle in his post match interview he did mention that although they did some good stuff and executed some of the plays they have been working on picked up on the fact we only played for 60 mins and said he wasn't happy with that but can understand why they did but will work on that.

The more I hear from Gentle after the games the more impressed I am with him as a Coach.

I didn't draw Turner into it, I was specifically asked about him. Seeing as you ask, I didn't think Briscoe got involved as much as usual, but then popped up with his poaching instinct to take his try.

I'm really liking how he's going about his business. Building our team and performances in the right way and just seeming to talk nothing but sense.

Does come as a bit of a shock ,doesn`t it?

Watched the tries again. What a ing signing Lynch is.

He is following on from Swain and Fitzgibbon in being our 'engine room' you feel that when he plays well (not that he has many off days) the team will play well.

I thought all the forwards were superb and really laid a platform for the backs.

yes it got sloppy in the last 10mins, but as others have already mentioned the long break for Briscoe's injury took the momentum out of us, and the players are human...when you are so far ahead you aren't going to risk getting injured or getting sent off.