Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:13 pm  

Am I the only one with the feeling that the professional game is withering on the vine over here. Or can anyone see us putting in a decent shift in the next world cup? It just seems to be a continuing cycle of hope and expectation dashed as soon as we come up against Aus and NZ

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:18 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

Should get rid of Bennett now. Scotland showed you can get a result with the right attitude. Wane or for all his criticisms McDermott would be better than the half a**ed Bennett

yes, i think Wane is a good shout, said that before his style is tailor made for the international scene imo. Bennett was a bad appointment, and if he rips the whole team apart like i expect for his shot at the WC next year all the good work McNamara did in getting us close to the big two will have been for nothing.

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:39 pm  

Didn't think Watkins was too bad today. Kept Inglis pretty quiet when they went head to head and looked dangerous with the ball. Don't know what people want/expect.

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:25 pm  

Defensive kallums been sound. Thoughout the whole 4 nations he's hardly been given any ball. Bennetts tactics were clearly to go through the middle which I think is boring and unaffective. You can't blame kallum for not imposing himself in attack when he hardly sees any ball and when he does it's poor.

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Sun Nov 13, 2016 7:18 pm  

It wasn't Watkins who failed to find touch from penalties twice.
It wasn't his fault that Hicks was conned into giving a penalty kick for his supposed late tackle on Cronk.

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Sun Nov 13, 2016 7:36 pm  

MarioRugby wrote:

Surely none of you can defend him after today? The guy is stealing a living!

Does stealing a living ring any bells to you,even if Beaumont is paying you minimum wage?

MarioRugby wrote:

There's a reason no one outside 5 miles of Leeds rates him!

Incorrect I rate him very highly and I also live 15 miles from Leeds
I'm not sure he would be good enough to get into the Leigh side though

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Sun Nov 13, 2016 8:02 pm  

Old Feller wrote:

It wasn't Watkins who failed to find touch from penalties twice.
It wasn't his fault that Hicks was conned into giving a penalty kick for his supposed late tackle on Cronk.

Could be wrong, but I thought the pen was because Kallum hit Cronks standing leg, rather than for being late, which is a penalty.

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Sun Nov 13, 2016 8:30 pm  

Barrie's Glass Eye wrote:

Could be wrong, but I thought the pen was because Kallum hit Cronks standing leg, rather than for being late, which is a penalty.

Both legs are in the air and he hits him on the hip a split second after the ball went. Awful call that wouldn't have been given had Inglis done that to Brown.

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Mon Nov 14, 2016 2:25 am  

The Chin's Back wrote:

Does stealing a living ring any bells to you,even if Beaumont is paying you minimum wage?

Incorrect I rate him very highly and I also live 15 miles from Leeds
I'm not sure he would be good enough to get into the Leigh side though

Appologies if I am missing something here and going slightly off thread

Why do you all think MarioRugby has anything at all to do with Leigh??

Looking back through his posts, he has mentioned Warrington as "us" & Salford as "my club" or similar

So where do you get his link with Leigh?

For whats its worth I thought Kallum played as well as he was allowed to play (Aussies and his team mates)

Re: Kallum Watkins goes missing in yet ANOTHER big game : Mon Nov 14, 2016 3:04 am  

Wane as England coach would be laughable. As were Wigan's last two WCC "efforts" under his charge, the last of which saw two reserve grade halfbacks tear his side a new one.

Whether Bennett can make England better is debatable. But we've absolutely zero chance if we keep making schoolboy errors and fail to defend forwards barging at the line. We have to make Australia pause for thought. They are incredibly smooth when they are on top, but NZ has shown that if you stay with them they can be beaten. The problem is England over the past 20 years have rarely even made Australia sweat.