Re: Boss Hog:

I like that. We owe Les Dracs one after the last two. Then heads down until 8th June. Bubble wrap and cotton wool on the usual suspects!

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You got to be joking right? Clear as day on TV and full marks to Powell for giving verbals to the Wire 'fans' who did it. Hopefully they will be identified and banned.

A fair set of ratings. I thought it was a bit disappointing to see Musgrove making his way off the field with 6-7 minutes left. If hes not going to rack up a few minutes at the end of a game that is well over as a contest, when is he.

Without question. We were very good, but you would be very upset if your team came to a semi final and showed as little as they did yesterday. Very limited evidence of a plan besides 'give it to Swift'.

The commentary on the game was embarrassing....semi final of the best known competition on RL and they put someone commentating who cannot even be bothered to learn the players names, even when you can clearly see their squad numbers! 'Harrison making the break & passing to Drinkwater' my 4rse!

After the investment Ken Davy has made in Huddersfield, his patience must be really wearing thin with Ian Watson and Watson`s job must be on the line soon.

I was one of those advocating for us to sack Price and appoint Watson here and was disappointed when Huddersfield signed him.

Watson was great at Salford but the squad he has assembled at Huddersfield isn`t good enough and they needed a fast back and hooker NOT Tom Burgess.

watson looked a broken man during his post match interview

I think these ratings are a bit over the top. It was certainly a very good performance, but Hudds. were poor on the day. Thewlis, much as I love him, made a couple of bad errors. You can't afford to kick the ball dead, particularly in a final against Wigan. He worked really hard, but Ashton was by far the biggest threat of our two wingers. Although credit goes to Thewlis for breaking a pad of beetroot juice on his head to try and get a penalty for us (LOL)).

Drinkwater's kicking was just ok, but his defence is a concern for me. I wanted him gone in the early season but I would have to admit that he seems to have upped his game considerably since then.

I would really like to have Wrench in the centre spot but Tai's defence and ability to take the ball up, considerably out weigh the elusiveness of Wrench in attack. King in the other centre is a shoe in simply because of defence, ability to take the ball upfield and his astute reading of the game when a break is on. Agreed he doesn't make many breaks but he has developed into a really clever player.

Top marks to Williams and Duffy. They can expect to get targeted by Wigan in the final though.

Not taking anything away from an excellent performance but it will need to be at another level against Wigan and Drinkwater's positional kicking will have to improve.

Tai plays for me. It is for Wrench to try and get the shirt back now as he is much sounder defensively and hits hard. Took his try well.