Re: Giants : Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:16 pm  

Out muscled all over the park today..only the two hooker came out with any credit for me

Re: Giants : Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:06 pm  

Teams like the Giants and Warrington, 'manage' the play of the ball, in attack and defence, so much better than Cas.

When we play the ball slow and flat to first reciever, Hudd had already closed us down, making it difficult to make any good yards. We need either greater creativity at the play of the ball, more freedom to run from dummy half, or runners coming in from deep to either impact or roll in the tackle to open the defence. (Something that Huby is excellent at, and leading to offloads in the tackle)

In the opposite direction Hudd were so much quicker and stronger in attack. I haven't seen the missed tackles stats, however Cas' stats again would not make good reading.

IMO - We need something to inject the spark again and a lot of work with the tackle bags.

Re: Giants : Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:14 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

I think it was Lawrence who slightly nudged him and he went down clutching his face / side of head.

Fair play for him coming back from such a bad injury, but that was nothing to do with his leg. He was trying to milk a penalty by diving and there's no place for that in Rugby League. I'd say the same if it was a Saints player as it's the main reason I stopped watching football.

I agree with BackrowSaint.

Re: Giants : Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:19 pm  

the_grobs wrote:

Teams like the Giants and Warrington, 'manage' the play of the ball, in attack and defence, so much better than Cas.

When we play the ball slow and flat to first reciever, Hudd had already closed us down, making it difficult to make any good yards. We need either greater creativity at the play of the ball, more freedom to run from dummy half, or runners coming in from deep to either impact or roll in the tackle to open the defence. (Something that Huby is excellent at, and leading to offloads in the tackle)

In the opposite direction Hudd were so much quicker and stronger in attack. I haven't seen the missed tackles stats, however Cas' stats again would not make good reading.

IMO - We need something to inject the spark again and a lot of work with the tackle bags.

Our defence is back to woeful. We have no mental strength or togertheness whatsoever when we are defending. When Danny Brough got the 40/20 it was nailed on they would score from that set of 6. I think we have too many people doing their own thing again.

At the start of the year, we looked a team. Now they aren't working for each other. We are soft upfront, tonight their forwards bullied us off the park. It's no good having a good 5 minutes here and there, they need it for the full 80.

They showed they can do it at the start of the year.

Re: Giants : Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:47 am  

Struggling to find a positive from last night, a few players had individual bursts of inspiration, but too few and individual efforts.

It is a game of fine margins and you could look at a couple of calls at 6-6 and 12-6, but in reality we stunk. When you looked at our sets in our own half, only 1 or 2 players on the move at any one time, which makes defending really easy.

Sure, we were unlucky with injuries, I am gutted for JW.

We are still the side capable of beating anyone - but we seem to have stopped believing and stopped grafting at the basics and coveting the ball and our line again. Fresh faces, freshen up the attitude and the run on side this week is enforced.

Re: Giants : Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:38 pm  

So we're slating Owen for allegedly diving once in a game where Luke Robinson played for a penalty at every single tackle?

How queer!

Re: Giants : Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:53 pm  

All this rubbish about shirts if i were a Cas fan i would be more worried about how poor your team is at the moment,Cas could have played in bullet proof vest and the Giants would have still smashed em.

Re: Giants : Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:32 am  

I like the look of emmitt in the second row is he a local lad?

Re: Giants : Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:30 am  

Disco wrote:

So we're slating Owen for allegedly diving once in a game where Luke Robinson played for a penalty at every single tackle?

How queer!

Exactly!

Re: Giants : Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:24 am  

CHRISS wrote:

I like the look of emmitt in the second row is he a local lad?

No. We got him from saints at the end of last season.
Good player and one of our better forwards.