Really looking forward to this one, not least because it's my little girls first game. I don't expect Wire to be feeling sorry for themselves post the cup defeat. They'll be desperate for the win and anything less then our best for 80mins won't be good enough. Let's see how much we have developed since our defeat at their place earlier in the year.

To be fair to Lumb, I don't think he's athletic enough to dive for the corner like a lot of wingers do now. He's quick when he gets going, but his speed off the mark isn't great, so I don't think he has that natural explosiveness that you need to perform those types of finishes.

My view after half a season, is that he's getting a great opportunity to play and develop in the 1st team in a position that he's not destined to play in the long term. If Sivo can make a proper recovery he's going to play left wing next year, and if he'd of played this year he'd be on 15 tries or upwards. That's not Lumb's fault though; he's got a great temperament and a lot of talent. I'd guess he's the standout long term candidate to succeed Miller at fullback, although he'll have to fight that out with young Edgell in the reserves. Meantime, he has the shirt and Arthur wouldn't be picking him if he didn't think he was the best option. Like most I'd like to get a proper look at ECW but maybe the view is that he's a centre and not a winger. But of all of a sudden difficult selection options are popping up like the  Dandelions in my garden. Does bode well if, as others have said, we can maintain continuity in the coaching department. 

I actually think he has the frame to develop into a winger or centre, to be honest, I'm not sure him or Edgell will be FB long term. Wade White looks like the best young full back at the club to me.

Very good performance against a fired up Wire.
We are very good at grinding teams down and hitting hard in the forwards.
Lumb should have scored that try but recovered well after that incident.
One player who seems to escape the criticism Saturday was Ryan Hall who must have had his worse game for a long time with both their trys ultimately coming from his errors.
Connor is fast becoming my favourite player alongside Mikey Lewis.
Our forwards really played well and O`Connor must have made 50 tackles yesterday.
Can he do that throughout the season I`m not sure.
Good substitutions at the right time too.
And as for Tom Grant. He has to be the worse ref officiating that I`ve seen.
He absolutely clueless and again missed the blatant offside from Fitzgibbon and then disallows the try that should have been given.
Thought we also did well keeping Wanes pet Williams and Sneeeeeeyd quiet.

Agree with this. 

Hall had a stinker, his body language showed his frustration with himself. 


Connor is, for me, the signing of the season, no question. 


Grant is utterly inept. His grasp of the rules appears tenuous at best and his reading of the game dreadful. Hull/Leigh is by far the worst refereeing performance I've ever seen. 


We did a superb job on their 6/7. It wasn't obvious that Williams was on the field for large parts of the game, and though we kept Sneyd quiet, unfortunately it was all to apparent that he was on the field. His incessant whinging is really tiring.