Excellent performance, I think everyone to a man has been name checked above and rightly so. Vaughan is superb, and has been since he got here, but that was another gear. 

On the contact with the head stuff, I’m genuinely confused. I don’t think any of them should have seen cards, nobody wants to see cards in big games. But, Lewis Murphy and Saints have every right to put the tele in the bath after watching that. We’ve just completely changed the policing of that rule without actually telling anyone. Earlier in the year Trout and Tai would have both seen a card. I’m not saying that they deserved cards, but how can you reasonably explain accidentally making contact with the head when catching a ball 5 feet in the air, and getting binned, and someone smashing an almost static player and making forceful contact and nothing given. 


The ref broadly did well, but missed a clanger with the tackle from Dufty holding up Armstrong (After the superb Thewlis tackle). Dufty comes from an offside position and makes the tackle. Leigh will be furious with that. But, on balance, the second Sneyd chargedown Liu was offside and it was given a turnover. At 12-4 up and completely steamrolling them at that’s state, we could have shut the game down if that gets blown as a penalty. But, that’s why we have challenges and it’s both teams fault for their misuse of them. 


Thewlis and Tai have proved me wrong from the start of this season, I thought both were underperforming but their effort yesterday was exceptional. 

Well done Wire, from 1 to 17, what a performance!


Mr Vaughan for 2 more years please, we'll struggle to find better.



Alongside everyone else that got mentioned, I thought Ratchford's tackling was superb....even though he's obviously on the fringes of a fully fit team, he just gets stuck in and does what is asked of him. He may not be the Ratchford of old but he seems like a model professional to me, well done Stef.

Fantastic win against a very tough competitive Leigh team. We need a better option at back up hooker, Powell just doesn’t offer much for me now. We lacked energy from the ptb that Walker offers. Crowther can go at the end of season, he is one of them players who seem do much but offer little to the team. Yates I thought was usual tackling machine but again he offers not much else. Since loosing Williams I’d say wires style of play is better without Williams we look more loose in terms of attacking structure. And that is creating uncertainty in the opposition defence. Overall it was a very good result and let’s get the league form sorted and enjoy the day at Wembley 

All I want from Yates and what we invariably get is to be tackling machine, having that kind of player in your team is invaluable and allows your ball handlers to get on with it. Plenty have lauded Currie and rightly so but his he such one beneficiary?        

Play like that against Wakefield on Sunday and we get the 2 points easy. Question is will we back it up ?

If Currie is a beneficiary, he's doing it wrong: he is our top tackler.