Re: Newcastle : Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:45 pm  

10 points flattered them. They look like they may be in strife. Didn’t think much to Whitehaven, who are doing quite well now, I thought Thunder were worse. Boafo is almost entirely wasted in their side. We benefited from a good start and 2 quick tries. A number of strong performances I thought Lovell and Walker had good games and Norman was very influential and a leader. Albert was going well when he picked up a knock. Butler looks to be getting there and was busy. I thought Davies when he came on was good with the ball and allowed those around him to do good stuff. All good - wonder if we can creep into top six.

Re: Newcastle : Sun Jul 02, 2023 8:58 pm  

BigTime wrote:

10 points flattered them. They look like they may be in strife. Didn’t think much to Whitehaven, who are doing quite well now, I thought Thunder were worse. Boafo is almost entirely wasted in their side. We benefited from a good start and 2 quick tries. A number of strong performances I thought Lovell and Walker had good games and Norman was very influential and a leader. Albert was going well when he picked up a knock. Butler looks to be getting there and was busy. I thought Davies when he came on was good with the ball and allowed those around him to do good stuff. All good - wonder if we can creep into top six.

Would be nice to think we could.
Sure we’ll have much harder tests than this afternoon ( next weekend for example) but that was a good team performance today.
Difficult to single out individuals as everyone seemed to contribute to a comfortable win.

Re: Newcastle : Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:05 pm  

RfE wrote:

Would be nice to think we could.
Sure we’ll have much harder tests than this afternoon ( next weekend for example) but that was a good team performance today.
Difficult to single out individuals as everyone seemed to contribute to a comfortable win.

Yes really good team performance. Natoli goes under the radar but I think he always gives 100% and seems genuinely pleased to be playing for us. Made a couple of good breaks today as well as getting through a ton of work. Next week will be tricky and will be interesting to see which we way it goes. My hope is it’s a decent contest.

Re: Newcastle : Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:11 am  

Been out of the loop with fixtures the last moth or so, but nice to see us put in a dominant performance in against of those below us. Really tough times for Newcastle and I guess a good reminder of what can happen if you try to take on too much too early in terms of development.

Sets next weekend up nicely and will be another good tester of where we are at.

Re: Newcastle : Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:53 am  

Toulouse were not all that good at The Summer Bash.
Only in the second half did they come back into the game, When the refs attitude suddenly changed.
I have hope that we can repeat our Summer Bash performance .and result.