For me Briscoe easily deals with their first try (the kick to the corner). Crookes doesn't make a move for it, even though it's a weakness for Briscoe I think he'd have let the man take it then tackle him.

I was being ironic with the Whiting thing, whenever he plays poorly people say they can count his bad games on one hand, though I reckon you'd struggle to do it on one this season!

I think in attack it worked well, but we struggled a lot in defence when Houghton went off I thought, although it obviously isn't all down to him going off.

The other thing I've just though of is that O'Meley was really, really struggling a few minutes before he went off for his first spell, and that was only after 15 minutes, so would we be better starting Watts instead for the first 25/30, Ogre coming on for 10 before and after half time and then another 10/15 minute spell in the second half?

I thought the same, but Crooks probably thought that Lineham would have a better chance of getting through with him being a brick house.

Thats because McDonnell is pretty average. For every thing he does well he does something poor. Id put him on a par with Eden tbh.

After a promising start his limitations are starting to show now. Our attack just seems to fizzle out every time he gets the ball out wide. It's not always his fault as the ball has been slow getting there but I still think he could do better.

my only criticism of crooks was as he scored his 3rd try, lineham was screaming and pointing to put the ball down closer to the goalpost as well as a few of us in the stand behind the goal, instead he just ran a straight line and grounded the ball, there was cas player tracking back but he could quite easily have side stepped and wrong footed him

If only he could catch and pass