DSJ1983:
Should have been better composed for that period in the second half. I don’t think you can read too much into a game situation like that though, it’s such a unique situation to be in.
Warrington have some serious firepower, Williams, Dufty, Ashton, Vaughan, Sneyd etc they literally had nothing to lose at that point at home. They had to throw the ball about they’re bound to score points, they even did similar to Wigan in Vegas when the game was effectively over.
Most pleasing is our backline options are better than I could have imagined at this point. Spine now for the season in theory picks itself 1 Pryce, 6 Cust, 7 Sezer, 9 Borough 14 Balmforth. Realistically though injuries suspensions are always going to kick in and we’ll always have to reshuffle Pryce/Rapana/Moy at 1 at times. Even the magical Rovers who can do nothing wrong look like they might start to be under a bit of pressure with injuries. Litten, Rapana, Hardaker, Chamberlain, Briscoe all look like good options for the centre positions when needed, that was easily what I thought was our weakest area going into the season.
Agree with this. There was an element in the second half of Wire going hell for leather, given the half-time score they had to shake their game up somehow. They pulled us across the park throughout that second forty and I think we did well to restrict them to just the three tries. Like I said last night, it was a good job Sneyd missed the conversions or the last ten minutes really would have been nervy! We were able to keep them at arms length for long enough not to give everyone a heart attack.
I had my heart in my mouth every time Williams chimed into their attack, he looked so dangerous every time he was on the ball throughout that second half. Credit to our scrambling defence though. Tremendous work-rate by all, even if some it was self-inflicted at times!!
Finally, thanks to those guys stood at the back of the stand who decided to give everyone in front of them a beer shower late in the game, really appreciated by those of us stood further down!! I would have thought at those prices it would have been more circumspect to keep it in your (plastic) glasses!!
Great atmosphere though amongst the faithful, really noisy all game! Of course winning helps, but it is amazing the air of positivity sweeping through the fan base mere months after most of us were in the very depths of despair. It may still all blow up in our face over the coming months but conversing on this board is a good deal more enjoyable than it was 12 months ago. Long may it continue, fingers crossed!!
