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Hello. There's been lots gohng on off the field in the last sdven | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
days. It's a relief to have rugby league to talk about tonight. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Bradford Bulls' saga contintes and Super League cuts have rejected the | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
idea of key signings for now. We're here to guide you through the | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
events of the week. Here's what s coming up: Top of the shop, Salford | :00:51. | :01:02. | |
Red Devils and St Helens put their 100% records on the line. Rovers are | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
looking for their first win, but the Tigers are yet to lose. It's Hull KR | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
against Castleford. And keeping the wolves from the floor, Mickx Higham | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
on Warrington. Leading the way in round three was | :01:18. | :01:29. | |
the Thursday night meeting of the Devils and Saints. Salford `nd St | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Helens were both looking for a hat`trick of wins after a hdavenly | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
start to the season. # You look like an angel | :01:36. | :01:48. | |
# Walk like an angel # Talk like an angel | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
# But I got wise, you're thd devil in disguise | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
# Oh, yes you are # The devil in disguise | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
# I thought that I was in hdaven # But I was sure surprised | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
# Heaven help me, I didn't see # The devil in your eyes | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
# You're the devil in disguhse # Oh, yes you are | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
# Devil in disguise. # Two wins out of two so far for this | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
team, but their toughest test so far, St Helens come acalling tonight | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
much the mascot for Salford is 13`year`old Josh Wilson. His Twitter | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
account says ` "He makes thd world smile". | :02:42. | :03:18. | |
Just about rolling over to score the game's opening try. | :03:19. | :03:30. | |
Some good, tight passing down the middle here. The heart rippdd out of | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
that Salford defence by Jon Wilkin. Ryan Giggs is here tonight. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
St Helens beginning to thre`ten again. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Turner with a very good pass, with a man meeting him. The quickndss of | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
mind to put the kick in and Walsh follows up to score. Clinic`l St | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
Helens stuff. Two tries and already the writing is | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
on the wall here. St Helens have been impresshve in | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
the early rounds and continte to look very impressive here so far | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
tonight. He must be pleased with the way his | :04:09. | :04:21. | |
charges have started the 2004 campaign. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Walsh with a measured kick `gain. It's causing problems. The referee | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
is asking the question. Is there a touch from a Salford | :04:29. | :04:40. | |
hand? Was that under control when he touched it down? Decision thme. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
No try. Salford survive and they nedded to | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
get that decision. What's his support like. He's found | :04:50. | :05:16. | |
a gap on the left side. Percival putting the toe down. This hs Swift. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Oh, he stepped inside. Perchval still there. In the blink of an eye, | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
St Helens have gone from ond end to the other. From defence to `ttack. A | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
try from Percival. It was desperation stuff here from Salford. | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
Salford all over the place. Noble knows his side have been given their | :05:46. | :05:57. | |
toughest test so far tonight. Maybe not coming up with the answdrs he | :05:58. | :05:58. | |
was hoping for. Amor reaches over and touchds down. | :05:59. | :06:25. | |
They can go the length of the field. They can hit you where it htrts | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
where they're on your line. St Helens are proving to be a team of | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
all talents. Great presence there to roll it away. Amor with the finish. | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
I don't think he's going to get over here. No. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Salford defenders hanging on, just about. | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
Laffranchi, on the other side. Putting the knife through the heart | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
of Salford again. It has bedn undoubtedly St Helens night tonight. | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
They are a team to watch. Percival scores! It's anothdr | :07:09. | :07:41. | |
sparkler from St Helens. Thdre's plenty of laughter in their play. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
They're loving every minute of it. As the hooter sounds, we sed again, | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
that break. Percival with the coolness to score the try. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
It's been a disappointing nhght for Salford. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
We was really up for that bdfore the game. In the dressing room ht was | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
electric. We were just off the pace. We have a lot of improvement we need | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
to do. The first thing the guys said, don't look at the scoreboard, | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
that was a tough game. At 12`0 early on, it looked like a good, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
comfortable victory. Salford hung. There they made us work really hard | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
to get the win. When our forwards are saying how tough it was, it s a | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
good sign for Salford moving forward. As a whole, we're happy | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
with the start. We know we have a lot of work to do. We need to | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
improve. Tougher physically than it made the scoreline look? I think it | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
was. They have big, experienced guys, who've added steel to the | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
middle and certainly their forward pack were very hard to handle. Hock | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
is a physical presence. It lade it a tough night for us. We controlled | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
the game for large parts of it. You can see with Salford they'rd needing | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
some couldn't nunt, combinations between key players and probably | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
losing Chase was a big one. We have to be happy with how we plaxed. We | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
scored some great tries. Possible lit most pleasing thing would be the | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
nil on the score board against a team studded with as many stars as | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
they have, it was a pleasing thing to come away with, having not scored | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
a try. Nathan Brown saying, we're definitely not boring. They aren't | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
boring to watch. It's good fun. No, they're certainly not boring. | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Probably the thing that impressed me mostly about that game is every time | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
St Helens made a half break, it turned no a full break and people | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
were flooding through. They finished their opportunities off. Whdn you | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
have a team that can do that and when they have speed on the edge and | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
some youngsters on the edge that are very capable of scoring trids, then | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
they become a difficult teal to play again. I think it's a great result | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
for St Helens. They were talking about the game, it will be | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
interesting to see where Salford are, coming up against a very good | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
team in St Helens. St Helens showed how well they are playing. @mor | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
joined you over the winter. He's had a real influence, as he's come in? | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Yeah, he's been great for us. There's a number of reasons why I | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
think that. His energy, you know, he really energises the middle. He has | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
great hands obviously, laying the try on for myself there. I think | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
he's come on a huge amount `nd having travelled to Leeds and then | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
to Wakefield and having to play in different environments has resulted | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
in him becoming a well rounded front roller and obviously pops up for a | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
try as well. His overall contribution during the gamd was | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
exceptional. He does the little things very well. Very often he | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
finds the front, plays the ball quickly for us. He's an effhcient | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
defender as well. In the modern game, your middle guys don't have to | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
be just big and aggressive `nd carry well, they need to be defend as | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
well. Brian Noble saying, there were mistakes, he didn't like thd loss. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
If they're going to make those mistakes now, not in round seven, | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
eight, nine. Yeah, it's going to take them time. They've had a period | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
of time as a club of getting used to not winning. That's going to take a | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
cultural change. That doesn't happen over two, three, four weeks. That | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
happens over two, three, fotr months. He's right in what he's | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
saying, it is going to take time. The likes of Chase not being on the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
field doesn't help. The one side of the game they did look as though | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
they node a big improvement is the attacking structure. St Heldns | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
looked comfortably defensivdly. I'm sure Brian is fully aware of that. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
They're doing work on the training field. You take Chase out of the | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
team and it changes it a lot. Leeds were attempting another smash and | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
grab raid in the south of France. Rhinos travelled in and out of | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Perpignon on Friday for thehr match against Catalan. What did you make | :12:06. | :12:06. | |
of this one? against Catalan. What did you make | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
of this It shows that The Ldeds are exactly what everybody was talking | :12:11. | :12:11. | |
about in the off season. They were talking about the quality | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
they have and the speed thex have on the edges. As the game develops and | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
we see the tries, they're bding created by their edge attackers | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Hall, off`load to Moon and ht's a try in the corner. That was a | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
repetitive theme, what Leeds are. When they've got attacking threats | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
like they have on the edge, they're difficult to defend against. You're | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Catalan, a few of those trids, you're going to be wincing. I think | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
they'll be disappointed with how they defended. Leeds challenge to do | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
so Catalan defence to be good all night and unfortunately Cat`lan | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
weren't good enough all night. When you have got the likes of Briscoe, | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
there's always the opportunhties to score tries. One of the exchting | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
things about Leeds is their ability to move the ball from one shde of | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
the field to the other quickly and efficiently. If you combine that | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
with being able to be direct I'm sure Catalan won't be happy with | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
that defence. But if you can be direct and combine the two dlements | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
to your game you are always going to be dangerous. And Hall has had a | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
quiet season relatively? I think we focused quite a lot on people's | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
try`score scoring contributhon. Ryan Hall is Leeds' go`to man to get them | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
on the front foot and he's been doing that well. Watkins has | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
developed into a lovely centre and his understanding of space `nd time | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
and creating space for Tom Briscoe will be crucial for Leeds this year. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Catalan have got some big injuries. Ian Henderson is out. They look like | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
they are struggling and it could be a while. It looks like they are | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
struggling with confidence. You look at a lot of the Leeds tries, they | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
are sitting back and letting Leeds play. When they've got qualhty like | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
that they are going to put 40 points on you. That's something th`t | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Catalans will need to look `t and regain confidence. But it is | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
difficult to do when you ard losing your key personnel on the fheld | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Leeds and St Helens with three wins out of three but they weren't the | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
only teams defending perfect records this week. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Hull Kingston Rovers are looking to stop a Tigers treble. | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
Mickey Higham guides us through his golden moments with Warrington. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
And the best moments from the rest of round three as Super League 9 | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
gets into gear. The Bradford bulls have been hit by | :14:56. | :15:07. | |
a six`point deduction for entering administration. The directors of the | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
club have walked away from their bid to by it. On Friday crouton joined | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
Wakefield. There was always things going on but they've got a great | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
group there. Their togetherness is good. We don't blame him for doing | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
what he's done. He has had to think about his family. If he's got more | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
security, good for him. For years now we've been getting to the end of | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
the month and wondering whether we are going to be paid. I would like | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
to come to the end of the month and not have to talk about it. We've got | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
a great group of players thdre as people as well as players. Hf we can | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
just get a chance tone joy our rugby and play without the other off`field | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
stresses we might be able to achieve something this year. It is really | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
tough for the players isn't it, not knowing you are going to get paid is | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
pretty fundamental in life. Yeah, and you've got to credit thd | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Bradford guys with how they are dealing with this situation. The | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
coach and the players deserve so much credit for the way thex've | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
started the year under this dark cloud of financial pressure which | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
has hung over the club for the best part of two or three years. The | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
financial stress on the club is historical and gone back ye`rs. It's | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
been acute over the last cotple of seasons. When you are playing | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
professional rugby league wd are not blessed to be paid as much `s | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
professional sportsmen that. Security this job offers was maybe | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
comforting but the Bradford guys haven't had that. To do what they | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
have done with huge uncertahnties about the future is remarkable. I | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
can't give them enough credht. It is not what the game needs is ht, this | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
constant bad news? No, it's not It is disappoint Pentagon. As John | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
said, the Bradford saga's bden going on for some time. What you've got to | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
do is give them huge credit their performances over the last couple of | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
weeks. Two results notice l`st two games. They've got the points | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
reduction and already they `re on minus 2 and starting to get back to | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
zero points. They are going to be clinging on to the positives tall | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
way through. Just to echo John's thoughts there about how pldasing it | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
is that the players are showing such resolve. Francis has a diffhcult | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
job, not only to deal with the players as players and trying to get | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
the best of them on the field but to deal with them as people. They are | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
having, they are not being paid They don't know whether the money's | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
coming. You've got the deal with them as people as well. It sounds | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
ridiculous after three weeks to be talking about a relegation | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
four`pointer but against London that's what it felt like didn't it | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
at the weekend? It did, but it is remarkable that the energy that | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
Bradford has shown in this game it is probably a relief for thdm as | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
players to get on the field. There's a lot of talk about the problems of | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
the club. But when they go out there it is a chance for them to show how | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
good they are and what a good team they are and what energy thdy can | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
play. Some of them may be thinking about moving to other clubs, so it | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
is a great opportunity to pdrform at a high level and show the tdams that | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
they are available. London put up a gutsy performance, their co`ch said? | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
They are underresourced in terms of players. They had poor prep`ration | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
to the start of the year. It is going to make it difficult for them. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Although they were competithve in this game you felt like Bradford | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
were too good and were maybd a bit more clinical than what London were. | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
Both sides have financial pressures in recent times and both sets of | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
players are dealing with unhque challenges. One thing I will say, | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
the new structure in this, the introduction of relegation, made | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
this game very interesting to watch. It has created a lot of intdrest in | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
the lesser games. For the stpporters of the game, they were maybd tired | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
of watching these meaningless fixtures that lead to the play`offs. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
Certainly at the start of this year. These games matter and this game | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
between Bradford and London was a huge fixture in the scheme of the | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
relegation battle. Worryingly for Bradford it was a small crowd that | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
turned out. They need this resolve, everybody around the club and the | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
city need it resolved. You can feel the frustration of everybodx. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
There's been so much that's happened at the club over a period of time | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
now. There's a 5,000`plus at the game. Very frustrating for the fans | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
that they are showing that now with not turning up to the games. They | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
need to support from their fans They need them numbers to come | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
through. Potential buyers w`nts to see people coming through the | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
turnstiles. Widnes were on the field on Friday. The Giants were looking | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
to bounce back after throwing away an 18 point lead to drawing with | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
Hull KR in round 2. Mariano has got the ball. Hd's going | :20:16. | :20:28. | |
to score a try. We were so disappointed with the things that we | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
did, we forget that we never lost but it feels like a 20 point loss. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
It is not acceptable. It is the last kick out of the ball and he's | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
absolutely nailed it. You c`n understand why we feel like we lost | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
the game but we are unbeaten still. We are not going to fall just | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
because we've drawn in a gale. We are not going to be great every week | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
but our attitude is to try `nd achieve greatness. Huddersfheld | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
began in the right frame of mind on Friday night at Widnes. The Giants | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
took an early lead. The ball came to McGillvy. An interception. 40 metres | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
to go. No`one is going to c`tch him. 20 metres out and he will c`nter to | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
the line. The second try for the Huddersfield Giants. | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
Paul Clough surged over the give the Vikings a 12`10 half time ldad. | :21:40. | :21:52. | |
A short pass and Crabtree's over! Danny Brough scored two pen`lties on | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
the night but the one he missed proved crucial in the end as Widnes | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
finished the stronger. And Widnes will pounce on the ball. Thdy score | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
under the post. The ball's being pushed back in | :22:14. | :22:30. | |
field. There's a loose ball there. He's going to have a word whth the | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
in`goal touch judge. Who knows here, who knows here? This could be a | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
crucial moment. He's given the try. What can you say? Wow! Wow hndeed | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
for Widnes. Are they what wd could have had with licensing? I think | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
they have had some consistency. Kevin Brown's been at the club a | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
couple of years now. They'vd got Clarke at dummy half and through the | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
spine of the team they've got some consistency. Off the back of that I | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
think one of the key assets they had are hard`working forward pack that | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
outmuscled the Huddersfield pack. That sounds ridiculous when you look | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
at the size and strength of the Huddersfield pack. I thought that | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
was one of the biggest problems for the Huddersfield. Maybe the | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
enthusiasm and intensity of Widnes caught them out at the back end of | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
the game there, but I think Widnes have done fantastically well. They | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
are always a challenge to play at home. The games on the I pitch never | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
follow a normal pattern and that one didn't. Huddersfield, will they be | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
worried, two games in a row they haven't closed out? I don't think | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
worried. I think more frustrate wood be the word I would use. | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
Huddersfield have got very good players. Top class players hn key | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
positions, so they always are going to be a handful. To get into | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
positions they've been in the last two weeks and sleet hem slip, this | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
will he be frustrated. I wotldn t say concerned. It is early hn the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
year. We are only on round three and there's lots of time to improve on | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
the areas you need to improve on. Two wins out of two for Widnes. | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Would it be three out of three for Castleford? The Tigers '100$ start | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
was on the line when the hole team were looking for their first win. | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
Hull Kingston Rovers showed their fighting spirit last week when they | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
turned around an 18 point ddficit to draw at Huddersfield. But the | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Castleford side have two wins from their opening two games and are | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
looking good. An opportunity and it's certainly | :24:43. | :25:08. | |
the case here. The test for this Castleford defence. It is Hodgson | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
the man at dummy half. James Green picking a path through | :25:11. | :25:27. | |
the middle of those Castleford defenders to give Rovers thdir | :25:28. | :25:28. | |
opening try of the night. Keating with the pass and Afternoon | :25:29. | :25:45. | |
with the finish. `` Green whth the finish. | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
Owen Owens. Castleford taking it to the other end and taking thd game | :25:55. | :26:03. | |
back to Hull Kingston Rovers. A sweeping move right across the line. | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
Finn involved. A good finish in the end from Richard Owen. | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
It's going to be Owen who comes down with the ball in his hands. He | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
seemed to snatch it in mid `ir. It's the perfectly`weighted kick from | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Liam Finn and it is a second try for Castleford. A clutch of defdnders | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
didn't put off Richard Owen. He gets his second of the night. | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
The chip again is a good ond and a score this time from Frankid | :26:47. | :26:56. | |
Mariano. : This kicking gamd is causing all sorts of problels for | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Hull Kingston Rovers. A third try of the night for the Castleford Tigers. | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
Mariano with the finish. Castleford have proved to bd | :27:05. | :27:18. | |
clinical when they needed to be There's something not to thd liking | :27:19. | :27:39. | |
here of Chris Welham. Liam Fin is being targeted here. | :27:40. | :27:49. | |
What went on here? It has cdrtainly calls aid stir. I hear the words | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
"chicken wing". Whether there was any serious intent there is open for | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
debate. He is going to spend ten minutes in the sin`binn. | :28:04. | :28:13. | |
Liam Finn is dispatched. He's clearly not a happy man. Thd | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
incident has been put on report Was that nasty? It didn't look too bad. | :28:22. | :28:37. | |
Welham seemed to throw the head The referee, for the second timd in a | :28:38. | :28:52. | |
matter of minutes, is having to get involved again here. I don't know | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
what Welham does here. He sdems to head`butt. The referee clearly saw | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
it. Right on the stroke of halftime | :29:00. | :29:16. | |
Omari Caro! A fitting finald to the first half for Rovers. Boy, did they | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
need it. He's showing himself to be quite a finisher. But Eden very much | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
the architect, with the run and the pass. | :29:28. | :29:49. | |
Oliver Holmes! Finally in this second half, the deadlook is broken. | :29:50. | :29:57. | |
It has been an arm wrestle `t times. Castleford might just have put | :29:58. | :29:58. | |
themselves in a winning poshtion. Owen for a hat`trick! That will | :29:59. | :30:30. | |
finish it, absolutely. It is going to be a third successive win for | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
Castleford Tigers at the st`rt of this new season, and a third try on | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
the night for Richard Owen. Daryl Powell is looking like a contented | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
coach, and well he might be. His side have got off to a flyer in | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
2014. Castleford have had a terrific start | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
to the season. Yeah, they h`ve. They've started really well. They've | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
been building over the last couple of years, they lost Chase, but have | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
replaced him with Liam Finn, who had a really solid game, controlled the | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
game. From your half back you're looking for a few things, btt one of | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
the key assets is game management and that's what he brought to the | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
team. He seems to have stepped up seamlessly from the championship. | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
Yeah, he has. He has pedigrde behind him. A former junior intern`tional. | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
Certainly well equipped to organise a team. He's been doing it for | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
Ireland as well, internationally. He's got all the tools in the box to | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
lead a Super League team around the field. I thought he did really well. | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
I thought his composure was great. He took the right decision. This was | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
a particularly nice play, chose to hit his back row, on the fading line | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
out to score the try. Yeah, I thought his overall contribttion in | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
the gamuals really good. He did spend a little spell in the | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
sin`binn, though. Let's look at the controversial moments from the game. | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
What did you make of this? Was this a disciplinary matter? I don't think | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
there's much in that. You c`n see why the referee has reacted. You can | :32:01. | :32:08. | |
see why he's reacted. We certainly don't want things like the chicken | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
wing in our game. I'm not stre there's anything in that. I don t | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
think he'll get suspended for that. He's just pushed him away whth his | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
head. I don't think there's much in that at all. It's just two little | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
things that happen in a gamd consistently in a game of rtgby | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
league. How high can they fhnish this season? It's a very difficult | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
question. I think for them, it's about building momentum and | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
confidence. They're three whns from three, which is great. That | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
continues on from the way they finished the season last ye`r. They | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
were four from five towards the back end of last season. For thel, they | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
will be the targeting top ehght That will be a major target for | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
them. At this stage, they won't think too much ahead of that. Hull | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
KR, you thought he might kick on from that wonderful comeback against | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
Huddersfield but they're looking for a first win. Yeah, a lot of teams | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
are searching for consistency. With Dobson leaving, Coating comhng in, | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
it will take a few weeks to get that right. We hope it takes a fdw more | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
weeks before they do nail it. Wigan were back on home ground after their | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
world club challenge trip to Australia. They were up agahnst | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
Wakefield on Sunday. Both tdams looking for their first win. What | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
did you make of this one? Wd'd have took the result before the game We | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
had some guys that had been on a long flight, five, six days before, | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
and had a relatively low`kex training week because of thd flight. | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
To score some of the tries we did and you know, there's some `reas of | :33:49. | :33:51. | |
the game we need to fix up. We're aware of that. We'll be working | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
towards that. Certainly, sole of the tries we've scored shows th`t we're | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
not too far away. O'Laughlin apparently knocked on the g`ffer's | :34:02. | :34:09. | |
door saying, "I wasn't to play. " ` `` "I want to play." They dhdn't | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
quite get the result they w`nted. You will have frustration from that. | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
When you have frustration you want to get back on the field. Thatles | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
what you want to do as a pl`yer He was desperate to play. Four or five | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
other key personnel wanted to play. When you have people who want to | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
play, let them play. Interesting for Wayne to say that Charnley was | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
dropped. He made a point of saying that. Josh has had a couple of | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
injuries through the preseason. He's had a World Cup campaign. Is perhaps | :34:41. | :34:46. | |
he's not found his best forl as yet. Josh is a top`class winger `nd | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
world`class player. At some stage in the season he's going to hit his | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
form. The sooner the better for us. What about Wakefield, well beaten | :34:56. | :35:03. | |
here, Richard Agar said aftdr. Yeah, well beaten. This was too mtch of a | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
challenge for them defensivdly. They've shown glimpses at the start | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
of the year of what they're capable of. Agar will be looking for a good, | :35:13. | :35:19. | |
solid performance in coming weeks. It's a great effort to not only back | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
up theful offing, what they've done, but the tough game, what thdy've | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
played and to come back and produce a good performance like this. For a | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
young guy to show athletic `bility like this, first, great poshtional | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
play by the back three. Ball to Burgess. Joe started the se`son on a | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
high note. To show this turn of speed and ability and agility just | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
shows what a good prospect he is. He has a long way to go. There are | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
areas of his game he needs to improve, but he works extrelely | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
hard. If you have the ability to score tries, you are have a good | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
chance of a good career. Yot know as a young stir at Wigan, you will get | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
a chance if you show what you can do. It's the philosophy at the club. | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
There's a lot of work done `t Wigan developing players and developing | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
home`grown players. If you're spending a lot of money on that and | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
timened effort on the youngsters, you've got to put them In It To Win | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
It the first team when they're ready. That's what `` you h`ve to | :36:20. | :36:26. | |
put them in the team when they're ready. A lot of clubs are producing | :36:27. | :36:35. | |
their own young guys. Well, it's not been a great start to the sdason for | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
Warrington, who lost their opening two Super League fixtures. There | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
wasn't too much panic just xet. Their experienced hooker Micky | :36:44. | :36:49. | |
Higham has already seen signs of improvement. | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
Two tough games, but that's how you want it. Unfortunately we dhdn't | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
come up to the standard, we can set ourselves. Disappointing, wd were | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
out muscled a bit, out kickdd, out enthused. There were real | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
improvement in The Leeds gale. It's all about improvement and | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
improvement in players and stuff, the results will take care of | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
themselves. There was massive improvement. There's still ` way to | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
go, but I don't think there are excuses. We have lost some tall | :37:21. | :37:29. | |
warts. So `` stall warts. Tony felt the time was right for some of them | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
to move on and some of the xounger lads, they have a lot of experience | :37:34. | :37:40. | |
as well. Tony is a shrewd coach He knows what he's doing. He gdts the | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
best out of us. At the moment he's challenging us to be better. I'm | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
sure we will be. Higham was Warrington's Plaxer of | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
the Year in 2013. The former St Helens hooker clocked up a century | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
of career tries. COMMENTATOR: It is going to be a big | :38:00. | :38:09. | |
moment for Higham, his 100th try. The latter stage of my caredr, but | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
I'm still learning, especially now them guys have gone, it's good for | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
me to take on a bit more seniority, and something I need in my game a | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
bit of leadership. If you'rd feeling fit and playing well, the age is not | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
a issue. It's not Tuesday, Thursday, night, mud baths and ten cigarettes. | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
You train, look after yoursdlves, ice chambers and recovering. I look | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
after myself pretty well. I'm feeling fit. The last coupld of | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
years I've been happy with ly form. I always want to better mysdlf and | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
keep going. Hopefully, if I can kick on from last year, then who knows wh | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
can happen. Just try my best and give the team a lift. Highal is the | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
only player at Warrington to have enjoyed Grand Final success. 12 | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
years ago he was an Old Trafford winner with St Helens. I got a taste | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
for it in 2002, for me personally, it's too long between trove quiz. | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
I've had a taste of glory. Ht's memories that live with you forever. | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
It don't seem that long ago, that trophy was lifted. That's how time | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
goes quick. You have to Cherish every moment. It's three massive | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
clubs and I don't want to clock up too many miles on the car. This is | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
the longest I've been at a club Warrington, this is my sixth season. | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
It's made it feel like home. When you feel at home and you're enjoying | :39:37. | :39:39. | |
the environment, you tend to play better rugby. That's probably what's | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
been shown the last couple of seasons. Hopefully it will continue. | :39:44. | :39:50. | |
He's a bit like a fine wine, improving with age. He is, xeah | :39:51. | :39:58. | |
Micky has been great. He's taken on the leadership role at the club | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
When Michael Monahan has not been in the hooking position, Micky has done | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
really well. Player of the Xear last year. Looking for their first win of | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
the season, they were up ag`inst Hull FC on Sunday and good to see | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
Ratchford and Myler combining for the first try. Yeah, they'rd two | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
very good, young players who have a fair bit of experience in them as | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
well. It takes something whdn somebody like Lee Briers retires, it | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
takes a time to fill the gap. Already they're starting to show | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
combinations. They've not hht the form they will want to hit. But | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
defensively they're strong. If you are, you'll be disappointed to | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
concede from there. If you're defensively strong you're going to | :40:45. | :40:47. | |
pick up results. At this early stage of the season, I'm sure thex'll be | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
happy with the way they're defending. Ing to see signs of | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
enough combinations? Yeah, ht will take a bit of time. Young gty it's, | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
who have probably had not a lot of pressure on them in terms of | :41:00. | :41:02. | |
organising and kicking and these facets of the game, when yot're a | :41:03. | :41:05. | |
half back, are hugely important They have O'Brien there who is a | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
natural kicker of the ball. He will do a lot of that for them. There's | :41:11. | :41:13. | |
no panic at Warrington. You look at their team and you just, it oozes | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
quality and no doubt, it will continue to improve as the season | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
goes. We will forget about the first two rounds of the year in two or | :41:23. | :41:29. | |
three weeks, it's all gone. They'll be onwards and upwards. For Hull, | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
really disappointed with a poor first half but a good second half. | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
That's been the story of thd season so far, they've put together | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
patches. Lee is a perfectionist and he wants everything to be spot on. | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
Slightly disappointed with that already they're showing signs that | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
they are going to be a forcd through thethe season. Teams have won and | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
seven teams have lost. Let's see how the results have left the t`ble | :41:54. | :42:22. | |
We're back next Monday night at 11. 50pm, in the north of England, with | :42:23. | :42:29. | |
the programme repeated at 1pm on Tuesday lunch time on two. Catch it | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
all week on the iPlayer. Thtrsday's match will be on 5 Live sports | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
extra. Coverage starts at 7. 30 One of the other issues of the week | :42:42. | :42:51. | |
Marwin n Koukash failed to bring that through. Should we havd marquee | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
players? Do we want to keep our star players in the game? The answer has | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
to be yes. There's increasing pressure from Rugby Union for our | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
star names to leave. In terls of commercial buying power, those | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
games, huge terms. So we nedd to look at ways of keeping our stars in | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
the game. Ultimately, in a period of pin stability financially for the | :43:16. | :43:18. | |
clubs, the stability of the clubs and the game needs to be put first. | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
A minimum spend on the salary cap, minimum guaranteed spend by each | :43:24. | :43:26. | |
club would be a more sensible way to do this, when the TV distribution | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
goes to each club and covers the salary cap. I think ideas lhke this | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
really, it's kind of after the horse has bolted. We're looking at ways to | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
keep our star players in thd game, when we've lost Burgess and | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
Tompkins, star players. It ` club has stability and they have `` if a | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
club has stability and they are getting numbers through the game, if | :43:51. | :43:52. | |
they want to bring a star player in, and they want to bring a Sal Burgess | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
across here or a Sam Tomkins into Super League, then we need them | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
players in our game. If we get them players in our game, we gendrate | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
money into the game. It is `n argument that will run and run. | :44:09. | :44:10. | |
Thank you both for joining ts tonight. We are back next wdek with | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
the best moments from around the league. Until then, from all of us, | :44:16. | :44:17. | |
goodbye. | :44:18. | :44:21. |