Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:50 am  

Jacks not going to get a look in when L Suttcliffe and Newman return, dont think too much rugbys going to be an issue. I believe the selection last night was just a case of where they currently stand in the pecking order in the coaches eyes.

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:11 am  

Marty Grrrrrrrrrr! wrote:

Jack is still young, a week on bench here, a week out there will benefit him long term. Playing every week will harm him long term. Same, and probably even more so with Walters.

Got to gradual with these kids.

Thats true if there are quality players ahead of these lads. But simply not true for our team.....

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:17 am  

The other issue is there’s no reserve grade rugby or duel reg so there’s going to be large parts of the year where game time is going to be hard to come by, not great for development

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:24 am  

Marty Grrrrrrrrrr! wrote:

Jack is still young, a week on bench here, a week out there will benefit him long term. Playing every week will harm him long term. Same, and probably even more so with Walters.

Got to gradual with these kids.

Agree

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:53 am  

Marty Grrrrrrrrrr! wrote:

Does this make sense to anyone or not??? Cos I cant understand why it never happens.

If our aim on the last when we are attacking is to not kick it in fear of it going dead and giving a tap 20 7 tackle set to our opponents then rather than taking a tackle and handing it over for a 6 tackle set why not play the ball and the hooker instead of picking it up just kicks it 5 yards sidewards . I guarantee the opposition will dive on it and its then tackle 1 where we would normally hand it over anyway.

The normal tackle 1 would then be tackle 2 etc and the opposition should then be kicking on their last further back than they are now.

If the plan is to make opponents bring it away from their own line give them less tackles to do it and mount pressure that way.

Absolutely. Plus
One of their players stick out an arm or leg and you get the ball back, they knock on , they lose control and push ball to their try line and maybe you force a drop out
or god forbid someone backs up and you may SCORE.

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:51 am  

Mark Laurie wrote:

Absolutely. Plus
One of their players stick out an arm or leg and you get the ball back, they knock on , they lose control and push ball to their try line and maybe you force a drop out
or god forbid someone backs up and you may SCORE.

Mate im literally just saying tap it 5 yards n let them drop on it. Dont see point of running in and taking the tackle and handing it over as we are. May as well make them use a tackle rather than handing it over.

Both are negative plays by the way.

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 11:07 am  

Last night was awful to watch and a game to forget. Just hope it was a one off and look forward to a much better performance next week.
I can't get mad after a single game, fingers crossed last night's shambles doesn't turn into a trend

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 11:17 am  

Also on a positive note I thought Mellor was much better last night than he has shown so far, under the circumstances at least. Put some great hits in and seemed solid moving forward too. Hard to find many more positives from that game

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 11:33 am  

Bang wrote:

First game in a while, I understand that completely, but I thought Richie Myler's contribution was two tackles last night. Summed up by him gobbin off to the ref, he can stop that immediately. Thats certainly not summat we want to see from a Leeds player.

keith senir agrees with that and zak

Re: RD 4 | Hull Kingston Rovers (A) : Sat Apr 24, 2021 11:58 am  

Marty Grrrrrrrrrr! wrote:

Mate im literally just saying tap it 5 yards n let them drop on it. Dont see point of running in and taking the tackle and handing it over as we are. May as well make them use a tackle rather than handing it over.

Both are negative plays by the way.

Completely get the point, they have used 1 tackle and have only 4 carries before a kick. They are under pressure and in effect you need to make 1 tackle less per set and save energy.

I wonder if after nearly losing the cup final from Williams going 90 yards and the Johnstone try v wakey, we have got too scared of a break away try.

They should be practicing using Walters for kicks landing 10-15 in from touch on a half backs head.

HKR only had 1 half back and his kicking was very good. For mine smith is Still a top coach