No way was the game 'dreadful'.



We scored some great tries, our defence was good and at times very good.

We made some mistakes and occasionally went for offloads or passes that weren't on or necessary.

Rovers tried really hard and gave us a good game.



Not in any way was the game 'dreadful'.

having not gone to the game its impossible to comment on the ref but from what ive heard its no surprise that this pillock is getting a canning..worst ref by a mile...just hope we dont have him when we play saints

DELIBERATELY OBTUSE, only you will know



Yes, we frittered away possession too easily (at times), trying to be the RL equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters, and I'm just as critical as you, re this (at one stage, I had a Stains Friday night collapse in my mind), BUT, we've put 42 points on someone, and I'm sure we wont 'fling it about with gay abandon', against any of the big oppostion, when the time comes.

I'm happy for the game to be "boring" if we win every game by 32 points!



As it goes, I enjoyed the game today, albeit with some sloppy play in the first half.

I thought today's game wasn't brilliant, mainly to the fact we played nowhere near as well as we can. However 99% of the time we play some of the best rugby in the league and I can't argue with winning so I enjoyed the result and the tries we scored.

I'm happy to see the players try to go for the moves, throw the ball around, etc, but I do get annoyed when we do it after having soaked up a ton of pressure on our line, to then knock on 30 yards out from our line and have to soak up even more pressure again.



I'm 80% sure I remember Tony Smith, around this point of last season, making a statement in an interview that "We're still learning when we should be throwing those balls or when to just keep hold of it", maybe that same learning curve applies again?



(I'm certain he said it, I just can't remember exactly when!)

People may be getting the wrong end of the stick here. I am not being critical of us winning today or even our performance doing so. it was the nature of the game that was frustrating. The game has changed this year quite clearly, and is more a ground wrestle_athon, than free flowing rugby. I don't like it personally.

At times the game did become a little flat but i dont understand all these people going mad about our "daft offloads" people who watch Warrington know the way we play and we have our own unique style, when we did the offloads that i think people are referring to, trent waterhouse and westwood in the 2nd half there was no way we were going to lose the game, and if they had come off which they very nearly did then we would have been talking about yet more brilliant tries. Sometimes they come off sometimes they dont and the odd time that they dont im happy to clap and see that it was a brilliant idea and that is the way we should be playing! when we do it on our own 20m line against saints with a 2 point lead and 5 minutes to go then you can all have your moan..

That old saying "live by the sword, die by the sword". We weren't moaning last year when this style of RL scored us over 1000 points and put us top. We are on to do the same thing again this year already.



Ruck speed is rediculously slow. Teams know they have to do this against us or they will get cut to ribbons in minutes. It was just painful at times how KR got away with it for so long.

I didn't see or hear this game so won't comment on it exactly but there was one advantage of the opposition slowing us down, it was there to see v London, our superior fitness levels.



What they end up doing is conserving our energy and then get battered in the final quarter.



Last season we seemed to blow teams off the park from the off and would tail of towards the end, seems to have gone the other way this season.

If that actually happens we're all blaming you

i read in the programme yesterday that smith was looking to play a slower rugby this year? this mite have a ittle something but to slow it down that much has got to be down to kr players holding down and the ref not picking up on it.



perhaps silverwood slows the play down so that he can keep up with the play?