Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:36 pm  

roger daly wrote:

What an entertaining afternoon that was. Did the better team lose?
Really enjoyed it and of course winning like that made it better.

I don't think the better team lost. We worked hard for that win. When we look back on the season in September, that will be one of our toughest games. We just lacked a little composure in attack, so had to rely on a scrambling defence & mental toughness to take the 2 points.

Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:56 pm  

I may be being unfair, but I thought we were second best for most of the match. York played the better rugby and dominated the collision. Our forwards were bullied in the tackle and often found themselves on their back, whereas the York players seemed to more often than not generate a much quicker play the ball. We still lack a couple of big experienced props, and I’d like to see our outside backs take some more resposibility from dummy half in making quick yards. Towards the back end of each half, the York pack really tired, and their wingers carried them down the pitch with some easy metres.

Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:15 pm  

For much of the game we gave them easy metres at ptb by failing to move up. On a short pitch like that they soon transferred from their half to ours and put us under pressure.

Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:35 pm  

Failing to move off the line was where they was making alot of meters. We need to start going up.

Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:49 pm  

If not moving up fast enough off the line is the issue then you would think someone of jK's experience would sort this quickly

Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:06 pm  

yes, you would, and its been said so many times over the last few years.

Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:27 pm  

Watched the video this evening and I thought our defence was mostly good especially on the goal line. Joe Keyes' kicking game was superb. He chased down his kicks well and tackled their backs to put pressure on the kick return. We were a bit unlucky for their second try. Atrocious pass from their player confused our lot and as the ball bobbled on the ground their centre did a great job picking it up and running into space. I imagine in terms of defence it's difficult to react to a poor pass that turns out to ricohet into the hands of the right player!

Great finish to the game. An absolute humdinger. Bet Proper Sports were licking their lips at that as their opening broadcast, although as someone else said that fella they had on was useless. He didn't offer a word of insightful material whatsoever.

Bulls did well to grind that one out. I'm sure our attack will improve. On the whole happy with the way we defended though.

[Bullseye]

Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:58 pm  

Let's face it this squad is going to take some time to get to know each other so to get the win yesterday was outstanding. The spine of the team has some new players and our best hasn't played yet. I'm sure the attack will come in time.

The defence on the line was very good I thought. Elsewhere we could use a bit more line speed and intensity. Do that and the we'll force more errors. I'm sure it'll come good.

It'll be interesting to see how we go at Cougar Park. We know what to expect from them now.

Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:08 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

It'll be interesting to see how we go at Cougar Park. We know what to expect from them now.

Look after each other, play our own game and certainly not get involved in measuring our appendage with them.

Re: York Away : Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:17 am  

From watching the video York looked technically smarter and physically had more energy, but the Bulls defence in general was good and as the game went on the Team gelled more. York can consider themselves unlucky but they didn't make the most of their superior advantages, and we had the rub of the green when it counted. Though I did think York wasted a lot of energy with three man tackles compared to the Bulls. While the Ref let the game sort of flow I was surprised there were not more flare ups with all the niggles allowed to go on!
Still it's 2 points in the bag and was earned because the Bulls hung in there against a very solid attack down the middle!