When building a house the first thing you need is good foundations and on tonights performance I think we are on our way to having a very good house.I'm not going to get to carried away and predict this and that but to see a solid display like tonights fills me with hope.What a wonderful performance from 1 to 17.Congratulations to Richard Horne on scoring his 100th try,and how fitting to do it at home infront of the faithful.Well done lads.

It was another encouraging display. Still room for improvement but a great result nonetheless.

We have 6 points from 3 games - compare that to last year when it took us ELEVEN games to reach 7 points.

Happiest I have been with a performance in a long while. With players coming in, we can only improve

any news on injuries to the ones that went tonight did any look serious?

In many ways the best performance for a fair while. Particularly pleased that we seem to have regained our determination not to let the other team score that we had in 2005/06 seasons. Even when we got to 28-6 and the game already looked won we were really piling in and scrambling to keep them out.

Still areas for improvement though, so let's hope we continue to do so. I certainly came away from tonight with a lot more optimism than I had during the close season.

Mike Burnett has an ankle injury, considered doubtful for next week. Washy should be back though and Whiting has a chance.

Only Burnett. Agar said it was his ankle and they need to see how he is in a couple of days. A doubt for next week.

cheers someone said thorman was injured on here tonight?

just asked my son who went tonight he said thorman was fine must on been the rubbish commentry tonight getting people mixed up

Some excellent work by the pack again tonight - won the "arm-wrestle" convincingly and pushed back their ball-carrier more effectively than I can remember. Special mention to Tom Briscoe for a stunning one-on-one ball steal to save a try as well. Very encouraging all round.

Had to get my son to pinch me when i saw dowes drag 3 tacklers 10 metres!

He was awesome again.

Was still doing it with 78 minutes gone. Dowes is on fire at the moment.

No argument there, was disappointed he only did 65 mins this week instead of 75! tut tut!!!!

Does anyone agree with this? That tonight was the first time since I can remember I felt comfortable that we were in control and was in no way going to lose..........had to keep pinching myself.
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Must admit the atmosphere in the stadium reflected this. There was no nervousness, something i haven't witnessed for a while.

Spot on - we smothered them defensively and they couldn't really get going. Lots of work still to do creatively but the forwards are really laying the platform. Looking forward to Huddersfield now, as I bet Thorman and Jon Sharp are

Agree, but at 14-6 was a little concerned, but not really worried. thought we always had it in the bag

Yeah you're right...never thought about that but thats so true.

And Mrs barista..... nice to see you still feeding my shoe fetish... Fnaar fnaar

would agree it was weird to see FC in such control of a game at home

wasn't that impressed with Catalan though, they seemed tired and missed the 4 props they had absent.

still a few errors and problems that need ironing out, but again the kicking, enthusiasm and fitness seemed much better than last season, and our defense at the moment is amongst the best in SL

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Agree, really good signs

I stated most of the off-season that our pack would go fine this year and we'd have no problem making the hard yards but even I'm surprised at just how well they are performing.

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Dowes is the surprise package for me. Loving his work.

Couldn't resist. Must say with the additions we are bringing in and IF Crocker gets his visa I really think we would have one of the best packs in the league.

Correct. If everyone's fit and with Lauaki coming in, some selection dilemmas for Agar for once.