The best part about this performance for me is how I'm sure we were at most in 3rd gear. It felt comfortable all game and we never really set the world alight. We didn't see French and Field really run at them. We ground them down, we actually seemed to gift them field position at times. We still s...

Excellent - now to book our tickets. Can't recall a better forward performance than Thompson today. A delight to see him bulldozing through HKR, He was my MOM but can't quibble with Harry. For years we’ve looked on at props at other clubs feeling a bit jealous but those days have ended now. In Thom...

1- 7 picks itself Havard O'Neill Thompson Faz Junior Ellis Dupree Hill Mago Leeming semi final isnt the game to put Walters in (unless he's had lots of time training with the 1st team) and i think i'd personally go Hill over Cooper on basis he's faster / more mobile and hasnt taken a backwards step...

For one reason and another Byrne hasn’t got going this year but people only need to look back to that spell around Catalans away last year to see what he can do. He may find himself on the sidelines for a bit longer than these 2 games now if things go well and that might not be a bad thing. His conf...

It makes sense that those guys are likely to either retire or move on. They’ve had great careers and certainly in Isa’s case, he’s been an absolute gem for us in so many ways but the new guard need the games and they’ll need the cap space to keep them. A lad like Harvie Hill in particular needs to b...

Fantastic work from both clubs.

Cooper failed an HIA during the KR game. On first thoughts, I’m slightly disappointed to hear Walters isn’t playing but when thinking about it, I do see the sense of playing him in the reserves. They’ll be able to get as many minutes in to him as they want in the reserves, where you’d struggle to g...

Cooper failed an HIA during the KR game. On first thoughts, I’m slightly disappointed to hear Walters isn’t playing but when thinking about it, I do see the sense of playing him in the reserves. They’ll be able to get as many minutes in to him as they want in the reserves, where you’d struggle to ge...

Re Keighran, it took quite a long time for Toby King to come good last season, so I'd be disinclined to consider leaving him out but I hope he will curb that habit of jumping out of the line. I suspect he will always be more of an attacking centre than a defensive one. Field still doesn't look righ...

Miski? I actually thought he was one of our better performers on a poor night. Not saying he was good, but hardly the worst. I’m talking the season as a whole. He’s not hit the heights of last year but there are reasons for that (lack of a pre season, new partnerships etc) and I do think he’s impro...