The "bollocking" captain is a strange one. I'd bet that the ones who want one would be the first to complain at work if they were rollocked in public.



Before I retired I had all sorts of managers, the shouters, the pragmatic, the theorists, the deep thinkers, the innovators, the people men etc



All had their virtues, but the shouters in general got less out of their team than the rest.



Wasn't it Phil Clarke who said that the shouter (captain) was popular with the fans but meant nothing to the players?

Agree with that man, I didnt see much different from last season, however its our first hit out so lets all relax! lol

I wasn't so much calling for a bollocking as communication. If the team doesn't talk about why they conceeded a try they are unlikely to stop the same thing happening again unless the coach gets a message down. This was clear yesterday as we conceeded plenty of tries through us giving away silly penalties and them shipping the ball out to the wing quicker than our defence would slide. They should be talking about cutting out the daft penalties and either sliding quicker or spreading out more rather than silently watching the opposition knock the conversion over.

Agreed, i wasnt looking for one player to be shouting at the others, but some communication regarding why/how a player got through could have been discussed, in order for the team to understand what to do different next time. The players being silent, doesnt fill the fans with much confidence.



I think Riddell was the only one to say a few words...

as wakefield scored one of their 8 tries , i noticed lockers just pull his face in disapointment and had a little go at sam regarding the gap the wakefield guy ran through. sam just held his arms out. As if to say what could i do about it . Dont think anything more was said as they were behind the sticks.

Certainly in the first quarter there were "discussions" between players after their tries.

TBH I never looked closely after that as we were too busy discussing the problems ourselves.. Somebody, it may have been Sam tapped Phelps on his head (an encouragement gesture) after Phelps had made the error for Wakeys last try.

It was Ainscough which i thought was a nice touch considering Phelps got in the way of what looked like an easy catch for Ainscough.



Just one of those things that. I'd rather Phelps be doing those now and get them out of the way. He had a superb 2nd half to last year and i'd love to see him carry that form through to this year with one or 2 improvments to his game.

Aye the dummy runner came inside and our centre (can't remember who it was) took him. Tomkins tried to run outside to get to the guy who got the pass but the dummy runner carried on his run and legitimately got in his way, leaving them with two on one, easy try. I'm not sure who was to blame to be honest, they were both man-marking rather than playing a sliding defence. I didn't think teams used man-marking anymore.

you must of gone different games to me then pal

And me, and the ones i watched again on the tv.



Highlights of all last years superleague games are still available to watch on superleague tv on the superleague website.

Ainscough was also one of the players last season who always had a few words to say after conceeding a try.



As for the game itself, I didnt go but I do realise that it was a friendly, 110 per cent effort will not have been used for it as players are more worried about getting injured than the actual game in my opinion - afterall when is there ever a good intense friendly game?



(except those boxing day scuffles against Saints)

You are obviously too young to remember the old Wardonia / Locker Cup games v Warrington. It was war on the pitch. I can remember stand up fights between the players, sending offs and mass brawls.



What a great way it was to start a season.