Joined: Feb 26 2002 Posts: 4712 Location: Warrington
FireWire wrote:We were awful today, thought Celtic deserved to win and they may have done but for Smith going off injured at a crucial stage of the game.
Well done to Matt King, never put a foot wrong and well taken try. Should hopefully silence some of the critics.
Briers was excellent, defensively I thought he was rock solid. I thought he was impressive throughout, much better appetite of work. I'm not happy with Gleeson at six though, he's not got good enough hands to play there for me. His passing is slow & inaccurate and you lose the threat he poses from the right. Hopefully Monaghan will be back shortly, if not, I'd like to see Bridge given gametime back there. He showed near the end, a cameo of what he's capable of in setting up that Hicks try.
I thought Mitchell & Johnson were great, really good yardage from the pair of them. PJ out of acting half is a handful. Shame that Harrison left they field, I know he came back on, I thought his work ethic was excellent, really looks impressive at the minute.
King was very good, did his work well, Riley waas good. Between them, two great chasebacks, Rileys especially.
Defensively, it was a bit like the old days at times, and much better at other times. Credit Celtic, they came to play, good ball movement, and I was genuinely impressed with them. Louis Anderson stank, he's crap. Penalties, errors, missed tackles. He just annoys me, he really does. I think he's lucky to be in the team right now, when Westwood is fit, he might not be so lucky.
Solid win, against a plucky Celtic side, too easy to say we weren't very good, they were good at times, We could have set our stall out early, 6-0 up and we bombed a few chances and invited them in etc. Anyhow, two on the spin, Salford next in SL. Looking up not down at least.
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