Tough game to watch. Stunk the place out really. But, got the win and are reeling in those above us. 

What frustrated me the most is the chances that we blew, particularly early on. Two times Jake Thewlis should have walked ins in the first half, one he can’t finish off and the other goes over his head on a 4 on 2. Williams, for all his plus points, needs to calm down in his head and just make good choices. Could have been out of sight early on. It happened again in the second half when he plays a pass to everyone and no one on the left side, if he picks any one player it’s a try but he flashes it across them all and Fitzgibbon leaves it for Wrench, who leaves it for Thewlis, who doesn’t get a finger on it. It’s a dead set walk in. Just bombing chances through either negligence or blind panic. 


The Sneyd playing short at the line saw another knock on this week too, not from a scrum for once but we’re not learning that lesson. 


We knew they were coming for us. They will have marked that day on the calendar for their big day out, and we let them have a say in it. Literally gave them the ball in half of our first half sets. 


An encouraging point was a little spell where Ratchford was at 9. He made a point of highlighting the messy ruck, coming around a player on the ground and standing over them to signal to the ref what was going on. From then on the ref seemed to police the ruck, as before that it was pedestrian. We got a bit of joy just running from dummy half after that point. Discouraging point, Ratchford is the best 9 available right now, it’s taken us since April for someone to do that, and we’ll probably go back to Powell and Crowther for 2 more weeks for reasons even I can’t quite explain. I’m sure they are good pro’s and prepare well and defend smart, but there is no point in having broken field runners like Williams and Dufty if you can’t get any broken field. And neither of them have done in 8-10 weeks what Ratchford did in 20 minutes. And it’s Stef flipping Ratchford not James Roby. 


Positives; we won, Ben Currie, didn’t waste space on my Sky box.
Negatives; exhausting to think about writing them down. 

Smiffy27: Blimey we were poor especially our passing early on. In the first half we made 9 errors & Salford made 2 (according to Sky). I really don't like the Williams obsession with the long/lobbed/miss out ball ... it is not good. I looked at his Stats (https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/43511) and it said he made one error??? I have always had my concerns about how stats are put together. I reckon even Williams would say he had a very average game. It is a good job Salford didn't get there noses ahead mid-way into the second half ... as it could have been much worse. Bit negative? For balance Ratchford changed the game and we improved our points difference by 12. Glass half full.

Smiffy27: Blimey we were poor especially our passing early on. In the first half we made 9 errors & Salford made 2 (according to Sky). I really don't like the Williams obsession with the long/lobbed/miss out ball ... it is not good. I looked at his Stats (https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/43511) and it said he made one error??? I have always had my concerns about how stats are put together. I reckon even Williams would say he had a very average game. It is a good job Salford didn't get there noses ahead mid-way into the second half ... as it could have been much worse. Bit negative? For balance Ratchford changed the game and we improved our points difference by 12. Glass half full.

Wires71: Smiffy27: Blimey we were poor especially our passing early on. In the first half we made 9 errors & Salford made 2 (according to Sky). I really don't like the Williams obsession with the long/lobbed/miss out ball ... it is not good. I looked at his Stats (https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/43511) and it said he made one error??? I have always had my concerns about how stats are put together. I reckon even Williams would say he had a very average game. It is a good job Salford didn't get there noses ahead mid-way into the second half ... as it could have been much worse. Bit negative? For balance Ratchford changed the game and we improved our points difference by 12. Glass half full.  Thanks ... I must change my ways & lighten up & I suppose it was wet. It was frightening watching though.

Wires71: Smiffy27: Blimey we were poor especially our passing early on. In the first half we made 9 errors & Salford made 2 (according to Sky). I really don't like the Williams obsession with the long/lobbed/miss out ball ... it is not good. I looked at his Stats (https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/43511) and it said he made one error??? I have always had my concerns about how stats are put together. I reckon even Williams would say he had a very average game. It is a good job Salford didn't get there noses ahead mid-way into the second half ... as it could have been much worse. Bit negative? For balance Ratchford changed the game and we improved our points difference by 12. Glass half full.  Thanks ... I must change my ways & lighten up & I suppose it was wet. It was frightening watching though.

Smiffy27: Wires71: Smiffy27: Blimey we were poor especially our passing early on. In the first half we made 9 errors & Salford made 2 (according to Sky). I really don't like the Williams obsession with the long/lobbed/miss out ball ... it is not good. I looked at his Stats (https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/43511) and it said he made one error??? I have always had my concerns about how stats are put together. I reckon even Williams would say he had a very average game. It is a good job Salford didn't get there noses ahead mid-way into the second half ... as it could have been much worse. Bit negative? For balance Ratchford changed the game and we improved our points difference by 12. Glass half full.  Thanks ... I must change my ways & lighten up & I suppose it was wet. It was frightening watching though.  Maybe what the early adopters have been commenting on for a couple of months (often to much personal insult/attack on here) is finally becoming the recognised consensus. That being the Burgess effect has been and gone and, for reasons systemic and historic, we have gone back to being a poor side and a squanderous waste of £2.2M cap.

Smiffy27: Wires71: Smiffy27: Blimey we were poor especially our passing early on. In the first half we made 9 errors & Salford made 2 (according to Sky). I really don't like the Williams obsession with the long/lobbed/miss out ball ... it is not good. I looked at his Stats (https://www.superleague.co.uk/match-centre/report/43511) and it said he made one error??? I have always had my concerns about how stats are put together. I reckon even Williams would say he had a very average game. It is a good job Salford didn't get there noses ahead mid-way into the second half ... as it could have been much worse. Bit negative? For balance Ratchford changed the game and we improved our points difference by 12. Glass half full.  Thanks ... I must change my ways & lighten up & I suppose it was wet. It was frightening watching though.  Maybe what the early adopters have been commenting on for a couple of months (often to much personal insult/attack on here) is finally becoming the recognised consensus. That being the Burgess effect has been and gone and, for reasons systemic and historic, we have gone back to being a poor side and a squanderous waste of £2.2M cap.

I was very surprised we won last night after Salford drew level. Like has been said there are some good players at Salford & Paul Rowley must be finding it hard to come up with consistent plays when his squad can change daily. 
On present showing Chris Hill would still improve our squad.

I have to pull this up. Physically, Hill is still a decent prop.

Mentally, he looks exactly like he did in his last 2 or 3 seasons at Warrington. Furious, slightly out of control, giving penalties away every 2-3 minutes.


I seem to recall Chris has 5 or 6 kids. Well I have two small kids, and Chris storms around the field with an expression very similar to mine when I come home and look at the state of the living room. His time at Warrington came to a timely end and we certainly should not be looking back.