I think that’s the most inexperienced bench we have ever fielded. Not too worried for today but going forward it could be tough going if we can’t strengthen the squad.
Is Finni saving Cook/Clough for more important games??? WTF???
“Widnes need get of the bus” how many times can that be said over the years....
Has craven been sin binned ? No info from commentators
Yes, he has.
So after a rusty start we kicked into life, the long unfortunate injury break clearly helped motivate them.
A good lead for us at half-time, but I’d say the games been spoilt for the neutrals by the red card.
Decent enough.
Scored some nice tries.
Thought Else went well.
Crying out for a couple more props. Need more size and experience.
Less said about the commentators- the better.
Happy with that. Though Whitehaven will be more of a test and tell us more about where we are.
Wonder why Cook and Clough didn’t play? Put those two and Jewitt in and the pack would have a much better look about it.
None of the young lads looked out of place today which is encouraging.
Good result in a fine looking stadium.
Impressed with a few of our younger players and was pleasantly surprised by Adam Lawton, who played well today.
Hope the injury is not serious.
A worthwhile run out, some nice tries scored and liked the fact we threw the ball about.
Need Cook, Clough and Jewitt, or at least 2 of them, otherwise we will struggle against decent Championship opposition in the forwards. Pleasantly surprised with how well the Lyons/Else combo did at hooker.
is logan still here?
For me Matty smith was outstanding, there when needed.
lyons did a good job, captain jack some sweet running, Lawton when fully fit will be immense and young farnworth and tilleke did ok. Not a bad performance for effectively a friendly
raiders - rangi will do some damage in that league and they had some hard running players, not sure about Hensen - was it his distant cousin Jim playing today ?
A good lead for us at half-time, but I’d say the games been spoilt for the neutrals by the red card.
I suppose beggars can't be choosers and it was nice to have a live game of rugby league to watch, but the absence of replays was a limiting factor, I wasn't sure they'd got the ball down properly for their try and I was waiting to see it again, but no! As others have suggested limitations of the commentary team and referee (although to be fair to the ref it may have more to do with the commentator not having a clue what the ref was doing!), didn't help either!
The red card probably killed them off, but we still played some nice stuff.
If Rangi stays OK I'm sure they will get some benefit from him, but I guess he is always going to be high risk. Henson I'm not sure about, his first game so can't be too critical, but pretty anonymous, the rest for the most part tried hard.
A decent game to shake the cobwebs off a bit!
Anyone see what our second sin binning was for, it looked to be just an ordinary tackle?