Warrington

Stefan Ratchford, Tom Lineham, Bryson Goodwin, Toby King, Josh Charnley, Blake Austin, Declan Patton, Chris Hill, Daryl Clark, Lama Tasi, Ben Murdoch-Masila, Jack Hughes, Matt Davis

Subs: Jason Clark, Joe Philbin, Sitaleki Akauola, Harvey Livett

No Cooper but happy to see Akauola get a chance.

Cooper Currie Westwood

That’s half of last match starting pack culled.

HT 6-18, keep it going Wire. Good chase back by Daryl C to catch Hall, may be the turning point in this game.

Listened to bits of it on BBC Humberside. Whatever happened to that Muppet who had a daft first name. He was NEVER biased in any point of his career

great way to bounce back...not getting too carried away with the Salford defeat OR this win at Hull KR. Just need to keep building towards the business end of the season. Sounds like the forwards had a good game....good to see Akauola getting some game time.

I'd have been happy with a scrappy one point win, so this was a good to listen to on Wire FM.

To the muppets who want young DEC Stephen Goodwin Westwood hill Atkins king booted out..this results for you..all I.ll say is do one to Wigan or saints...

You never got out of 3rd gear, great following today aswell

Think you mean Barbed Wire as he’s the only one I can see who’s listed all them named players.

Well done Wire but it is worth noting HKR were missing Vaivai, McGuire, Lunt and Garbutt....which are pretty much their 4 best players. Still it sounded a good performance.

Tries from today's game https://www.skysports.com/.../117.../hu ... warrington

Tries from today's game https://www.skysports.com/.../117.../hu ... warrington

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/1 ... warrington Interesting reaction after Akauola's try. Players looked delighted for him.

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/1 ... warrington Interesting reaction after Akauola's try. Players looked delighted for him.

Good response.

They would dispute vaivai, from what i read before they want rid

Awesome Performance, how did Akauola play all in all? Reckon he'll get more game time? Really happy with how we've responded to the Salford loss, squad depth is definately a blessing for us this year. Quality players throughout the squad

Westwood and Atkins didn't play did they? Not sure how this result vindicates their performances or makes a case for them to be included in the side.

Anyhow seems Price dropping/resting 1/2 the pack got the response we wanted.

I thought same thing!

Vaivai played anyhow

Listened on Radio Merseyside. The commentator was waxing lyrical about the second half effort. I mean 36-0 you can't argue with that. After the the dark places of the last 2 games what a response regardless of opposition. Well done chaps.

It may well be aimed at me, however unclear as to what the post is meant to address. Patton did what he always does, he’s filling a shirt and doing what he’s told as a ‘second’ half back. If that’s good enough for people, then superb, however I would like more. ‘Young’ Dec is 23(ish), not a kid, a hot prospect or rookie and should be judged as such.

On Friday I said “Goodwin, Livett and Patton have ability somewhere but just aren’t showing it at all. Goodwin in particular yesterday was dire.” which I stand by. The three of them have talent, but on Friday didn’t deliver. Goodwin was ok today, much improved.

Westwood & Atkins didn’t play, so that point is somewhat irrelevant. I’ve never criticised King or Stef, and actually think they are two of our better players, same goes for Hill other than the odd frustrating penalty.

Today is a great result, and it’s important to punish teams in free fall (like HKR are), however the fact remains that the club have a lot of dead wood, some on decent salaries I would imagine, that we could get a better value return for. I’m not throwing the baby out with the bath water, but I won’t apologise for wanting the fringe players to come in and show enthusiasm and try and steal a shirt of someone, not just to plug gaps.

It appears that Cooper was ill, Currie was rested to protect ACL, Atkins and Westwood dropped.

It was a good result, that can not be denied. Trouble is you still have that lingering doubt about their ability to 'turn up' for some matches.

And why it happens.

That was also true of McDermott's Leeds teams and Wane's Wigan teams. They had a lot of seasons where they underwhelmed their fans with inconsistency through the league season and had them questioning the coach. They generally turned up when it came to playoffs or Grand Finals though.

Warrington 2019 are not going to be Warrington 2011 where you arrive at the ground each week pretty much knowing we are going to have too much firepower for the opposition. But we will almost certainly be in the top 5, probably the top 3 and so will be involved at the business end of our season and the extent to which we turn up in those games will determine whether we go further than Warrington 2011.

Cooper is too good and has already been rested this season, so I believe that. It's easy to 'protect' Currie . . . he needed a game off.

Second time Atkins has been dropped. I've been such a big fan of his, but my now are Goodwin and King.

I thought 2017 was a bridge too far for Westwood, 2018 proved me (and a lot) wrong but . . . he looks done.