We missed our "clever" players at the end there as the sensible choice was to take the two. If Briers or Hodgson had been playing you can guarantee that the kick on the last that was messed up right towards the end would have been booted into touch for the scrum.

there would have been no short kick off though because the clock would have run down and the hooter would have sounded before the kick was taken. Tapping the ball was a crazy thing to do.

Exactly. You're allowed 30 seconds for a kick at goal, so there simply would not have been a restart. Tony Smith called the decision to tap the ball "a little bit naive", but I'd say it was unprofessional and symptomatic of the lack of respect we showed Salford. Tapping the ball was up there with Carvell's offload against Saints in terms of sheer stupidity.

I was a little disappointed in Higham. Bearing in mind O'Brien is the only halfback on the pitch for us, I thought he gave him little opportunity with the quality of ball and his decision making from dummy half. Conversely, it is a good learning exercise for O'Brien to be more forceful/demanding of his hooker to give him the ball.

I thought in terms of combination and communication, gob worked much better with Dwyer. And we went a bit off the boil when mickey came on.

I know he's been playing better recently but I thought yesterday he was back to te 09 wtf is he doing version

silly i know ,but hey,we still won