Haighy wrote:
What did Haggerty do then apart from kill thousands of blades of grass and give sicknote TKL something to do?
I said yesterday that Fax's gameplan would be to try and rattle our cage and with Haggerty that is exactly what they did from the off.. his first carry ended with him checking his mouth to see whether it was bleeding.
Haggerty's problem last night was that he tired very quickly which led to him being sloppy... If we are talking about dirty Tamghart's challenge on Yates was despicable... he sized him up and nearly yanked the lads head off.
I wouldn't say that Fax's forwards did anything too impressive last night nor would I say they bossed our lads around. The game was fairly even from that score. The game changed when Widnes tired and made a few stupid mistakes. Two tough games in five games had a visible effect on our players and but for a few millimetres in Grady's kicking we would have won.
They've packed their team with 'stars'.. last night we had five players on the pitch that have come through the academy system and we matched them. That will be of more interest to the RFL who have targeted Youth Development as a key area in the licence decisions.
I've also heard Fax fans say that they haven't got started yet... well... they could just as easily get worse..