You may be right but i would counter by saying i think we would still be 6 from 6 with them playing the other way around. Plus sides seem to go after our right side defence with Woody on our left, and there is still the issue of Jouffret being shaky under the high ball. All that said it as still been a great start and bring on friday.

Not exactly what we needed with the disruption it will cause but sooner or later we would have to see how we would go without key players due to injury or other reasons, just come sooner than we wanted. 

Two missing from the Bulls squad too.  Have a feeling Doro and Myers will come in on loans.

A bit if mind games going on here. Hansen will play and so will Doro.

Well certainly miss our two for different reasons.


Hansen has been playing really well with 2 recent MoM performances scoring himself, good link / distribution in attack for the rest of the team and a good kicking game and from the options were not going to replace him.


Restall to 1 and LJ into the haves is one.


Or maybe Inman at 7 with O Brien and Davies filling the 9 spots with LJ staying at 1 with a bucket shared with Salty and Tibbs to help them catch the high balls.


Dixon ( along with Douglas but he splaying ) has added the much needed size we?ve missed and with a loanee second row coming in Tanagata could go back into the middle with Calcott back to cover for Dixon and Hird being out, the downside of that Tangata has been playing well in the second row with is mobility running against slightly smaller guys and has linked up with JWH short pop up ball in the left channel so I d only move him if it was forced.


Anyway with excuses in place if we lose enough of the armchair coach so over to the real thing Mr Eastmond and see what he comes up with.

Excellent performance and best atmosphere at the Shay for a long time. Bulls defence in the first half won it for them, several times I was convinced we were going to score only for excellent defence to keep them out. Only disappointment for me was Meadows breakaway try - if we'd kept them to nil in the first half think we'd have won. Yet again no weak links in the Fax team, with incredible commitment shown by all against a much bigger team. My MOM would have been Tangata or Crooks both of whom were exceptional, McCarron ran and tackled strongly - and also liked look of the lad from Warrington. Crooks looked knackered at the end - with the physicality of the game and our very small squad really hope all the effort put in isn't too costly in terms of injured players.