To use Eddie Hemming's favourite phrase about Celtic I thought last night was "encouraging" from our point of view. We have to remember that when we were at our best last night we had a whole bunch of players making their competitive debuts which bodes well for the future when they really start to gel and settle in super league. I agree with much of what has been said previously. I was impressed by how well we backed up at times last night and it was this that led to our tries. Alker did have a great game but he would have been nothing without people running off him and I hope this can continue when we are under the cosh in future games. Let's keep being creative and showing the good rugby we showed in spells last night. I have to say that after being fairly uninspired by Leeds v Celtic and Saints v Warrington (where in the first 25 minutes there was far too much dropped ball for their level) I thought the game as a whole last night was pretty good.

All posts re the game were pretty spot on, only hope someone on the coaching staff reads them and reacts.

Re the interchanges:

There is no doubt the interchanges totally affeted the momentum we had built in the first 20 minutes.

I have a concern that Shaun McRae is far too rigid with his game plan, with all the players/coaches knowing when and who will be interchanged before the match, rather than giving himself the flexibility of adapting his tactical interchanges to the match situation? Just a bit concerned our game plan is too mechanical and doesn't allow for a plan B!

That said a good result and start to the season!!

Can't add much more to what has already been said, good first 20 minutes then after that we off the boil for the middle 40 minutes at one point when Celtic had the upper hand and pulled it back to 20-16 I feared the worse, but credit where credits due the lads stuck at it and finshed the stronger out of the two teams.

One thing I wasn't sure about was the option to kick the penalty goal to put us 20-0 up. IMO Celtic were on the back foot its 18-0 and we were in a great attacking position. Maybe just a little more confidence in our own ability was needed??

Perhaps. It was an easy two though. But negative.

I think if the 2 pts are on offer and you are in front you take them. I do understand your point about negative play though because after the first quarter we resorted to drive after drive up the middle and didn't look to offload or move the ball wide.