Well done to the lads, score is from Radio Manchester.

Completely dominated them in the forwards - Davies & Crosby especially were excellent, and that allowed Tomkins & Powell to work their magic. In fact, most of the tries were scored by the pack - Tuson (playing @ loose forward) got 3 and Davies 2. (can't remember them all...couldn't take notes, it was too farking cold!)

But what good does a game like that do either team?

Tuson was excellent tonight. Look a class above and didn't even get out of first gear

Not much - it's the old point about the low quality of most reserves games. Realistically, at least half of that side should be out on loan/dual reg - and we'd still beat most sides with basically our U18s side. Having said that, I've still seen a lot of improvement in some of our lads (particularly Tomkins, Powell, Russell & King), it's just that I think they'd improve even more playing at a higher level.



Logan was my MoM today, though admittedly playing behind such a dominant pack he had things easy. The problem, If it could be called a problem, was that our back were rarely needed, because the forwards were scoring early in the tackle count, before the ball ever went wide.



I love watching Russell running it out of defence, though - it's worth going to watch them just for that!

Are we going to see dual reg deals for any of our lads?



Not heard anything mentioned but surely we should be looking at it. In the long run games like that tonight aren't going to do them much good.

I do hope so. I'd like to see Tomkins, Powell, Davies, Crosby, King, Russell & Hughes all playing at a higher level.



I was very impressed with Acton again, too - that lad is definitely a future star.

Great Result, missed the game though.

Well done lads!

Acton was indeed impressive for someone who is very inexperienced.

They need to even the competition up by introducing a cap on how many juinors a club can sign each year. That way the better players would be evenly spread across the competition.

I know there are rumours of Sam Powell moving to Hull KR on loan, to cover Michael Dobson's absence.



The two clubs have a good working relationship, following the mutual success of the Charnley loan last year - does anyone think a similar deal for Powell is likely?



Is he ready for Super League?