A completely schizophrenic performance. Again for going on an hour I thought they were utterly superb. Widnes clearly had their tails up from beating Warrington and were giving it a go. Although losing Brown to injury probably cost them any realistic chance of a win, they were still up for it. We handled that well and I thought the entire pack was sensational.
Walmsley was great, Amor putting another notch on his recovery with a solid performance, Robes quiet but hard working. Flanagan and Sia were both very solid and Manu was brilliant throughout. Give him the damn contract he wants. LMS? For me tonight he was fantastic. Mose as well was superb, the epitome of an impact prop. His second try was great to see and what I really like was how he went looking for Widnes' naughty boys when it started to get heated. Always good to see a prop who'd rather run at a confrontation than shy away from it like our's usually do.
Downsides? The defending and overall attitude in the second half was appalling again. Percival needs to be dropped until he sorts his D out, he's an open door blowing in the wind. He had a bad night tonight, getting smashed by Paddy Flynn a few times.
And Wello? It's games like tonight that even the most ardent of pro-Wello fans will surely agree with me that it's just game over for him. His chiming into the line tonight was so hard to watch, truly cringeworthy. He seemed determined to gift Widnes a try with his trot-out-wide-and-kick-as-I'm-falling-over routine. Seeing him get walked past by Flynn was eye opening. It seemed Flynn went 60m in the time Wello took to move off the spot.
