It possibly could be judged a better season because we wouldn't be bottlers.

The 2011 season, when we were knocked out in the playoffs after winning the League Leaders Shield, was probably the peak of the TS era, and we didn't bottle a final.

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There was me biting my lip!

He is making the right k8nd of noises about coming over which is a positive and with family in tow hopefully he can get settled in quickly. My preference would be for there to be a new partner for him to work with.



At present we can only speculate on how things will work out but it's a fair assumption he will work out better than Roberts.

So, what's everyone's verdict on Blake after his first season with us?

We can tell you when he's played one.

Next question.

The unsurprising obvious verdict would be : refreshingly great for the first few months, then never quite the same after a period of injury.

He was excellent until his season became hampered by injury.

Very happy with him. Bought in to the club and the town and seems happy here. As expected he has a very strong running game which suits SL, we just need some other threats around him next year to make him even more dangerous. It became a bit predictable last season that our only real attacking threat came from him or a Clark run from a quick play the ball.



Never got chance in the final third of the season following injury, would have been interesting what would have happened with us had he stayed fit for the full year. I don’t think we would have won it, but I think we’d all be a lot more confident going in to 2020z

Looking forward to injury free BA in 2020.

Yeah buzzing with him, literally like old school Wire relying on Briers sometimes and he did his best on his own. Next year with Widdop coming in to control the game can only be a great thing for us and Austin. Great player and great guy from everything i've seen, ran harder than our GB props today and made more metres after impact than them aswell. Can't wait to see him refreshed and 100% next year for us

Real competition for our wing spots next season with him being the current GB winger!