...18-10 up at cas and let them catch up..18-6 against widnes let them catch up..and then let the giants score 2 trys to take us level...alright we won 2 of those games..but it seems we cant pull away when we take a good lead...barging up the middle all the time..hardly any breaks made..and the defence in front of our own posts is dire!...if you welded flanagan and richards together, you still wouldnt make a rugby player..annoyed even though we won!

Admittedly there were some alarming problems. But there were quite a few positives as well.

1. Quinlan.
2. Percival
3. Our ability to think clearly under pressure down the stretch.
4. Walsh's second half attacking performance.
5. Mose came good, again.

Oh and I forgot to mention Travis Burns. Fought like Roberto Duran tonight.

Mose was good tonight. I thought he was one of the few who did ok last week as well. He's very very good when he's up for it.

Really dont understand the stick Richards recieves on here. The lad is 19 years old playing in the toughest position on the field. I thought he took the ball in well tonight and no handling errors.

On wards and up wards i hope but i'm not confident at all for the rest of the year. We seem to have fallen off the horse big time. Makinson in for Dawson, Wilkin in for Richards, Vea in for Flanagan and we should improve imo.

The only issue I have with Richards is his propensity for giving away penalties. I agree with you. He's being judged as though he is a fully mature 23-year old forward when really he's just a kid.



Vea is the big one. He has enough energy for two forwards. And we really do need an injection of stamina right now.

I've said for a while that Richsrds needs taken out for a while. Not because I don't tbink he's a good kid but I think he's struggled a little this year. Brown took Percy out when he was struggling and it's not dropping them as they young kids but I feel Richsrds needs a break.

The lads only 19 and has many years to go yet. Id give Thompson some game time now.

As KC would probably say an Ugly win, we could have been 18-0 down in the first 20 minutes only for our scrambling defence. Quinlan looked good taking the high ball, his defence one on one near the line will be a problem though. I will be happy with one more win before going into the 8's, when we go into this phase we need to pick up form similar to what we did last season, still lots of rugby to play yet.

I certainly prefer Thompson over Flash.

Out of interest, how tall is Flanagan? I can't imagine he's that big. If he is he's punching significantly under his weight.

Agree with St.Pete that Richards needs taking out of the firing line. This is why for next year I feel we need another prop to come in if Haggerty isn't going to be involved that much. Making Richards 5th choice would allow rotation of our forwards like we used to have when Graham was coming through. It'd keep them sharp and he wouldn't get fatigued. His performance is suffering at the minute though and he does have the tendency to give away penalties a fair bit which he needs to sort out.

He's had some problems earlier this season. But you could hardly fault him tonight.

Imo we 100% need a prop for next year. We struggling with go forward at the moment with only big Alex and Mose ready making the meters.

We will miss the Mose thst was on show last night next year. When he can be bothered he's very good but i worry about Amor, he's getting hammered and looks very lightweight. Richsrds is still few seasons off being what he's going to be so Imo we need a prop.