Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 9:58 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Post-Sinfield Era to date = Ouch!

You were pretty quiet in 2015....the treble must've wounded you. Sinfield at SPOTY must've sent you over the edge.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:02 pm  

With the NZ game extending our season a few weeks and the flooding and the celebrations of winning the treble I was expecting a slow start to the season.

Whilst we're in a rock and a hard place with kicking when Hardaker and Sutcliffe are on, we should let Lilley kick goals when he does play, he's easily the best goal kicker.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:03 pm  

How DID Burrow not score?

Goalkicking.....hmmmm

(Leeds should have won, but let's not forget we had no Faloon .....and McGuire for most of the match. Having Burrow and Lilley on together - neither of which is going to help defensively - wasn't ideal)

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:12 pm  

Burrow and Lilley were best two players. Forwards excellent, Sutcliffe was horrendous. Don't think Mcguire would have made difference as he was equally poor first half hour.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:18 pm  

More meters sideways than forwards in some sets...

To be expected, we just didn't put them away when we were on top. We blew numerous chances and seemed to choose the wrong options, but it'll be reet.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:23 pm  

Our defense held you out, simple as that. You got some points in the second half after we'd spent probably 30 of the first 40 defending, that Moon show and go was fantastic though, I don't know why defenses hold off, with him you just have to rail road him as soon as he gets it or you're screwed. I feel like things evened out at the end, our first try was obstruction and I'm sure one of yours came from the Hall knock on that was blamed on Gidley. Had you taken the penalty kicks early on in front of the posts you'd have edged it.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:28 pm  

WireWireWire wrote:

Our defense held you out, simple as that. You got some points in the second half after we'd spent probably 30 of the first 40 defending, that Moon show and go was fantastic though, I don't know why defenses hold off, with him you just have to rail road him as soon as he gets it or you're screwed. I feel like things evened out at the end, our first try was obstruction and I'm sure one of yours came from the Hall knock on that was blamed on Gidley. Had you taken the penalty kicks early on in front of the posts you'd have edged it.

You're probably right. Great advert for the game.....Currie looked good and you have a half back partnership that will get better and better this season. Forwards evenly matched. Leeds for the GF and CC...you can have the LLS

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:36 pm  

Watching the game lie Gidley seemed poor, to me, he's also one of the ugliest people I've ever seen. Sandow was hit and miss as well, but the kick was top draw for the Penny try.

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:36 pm  

Gotcha wrote:

Burrow and Lilley were best two players. Forwards excellent, Sutcliffe was horrendous. Don't think Mcguire would have made difference as he was equally poor first half hour.

Pity Hardaker's kicking was pretty poor would you not agree?

I thought Lilley was the Rhinos best player on the night - we weren't that far off and we came up against a pretty committed Wolves side who in Ben Currie had the player who made the difference on the night.

You can't play without halves and you need a solid goal kicker at this level which is something Hardaker has never shown any aptitude for why we continue when it clearly isn't working on Brian Mac knows

Re: RD1 | Warrington Wolves : Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:40 pm  

Sutcliffe didn't look sharp enough before he was injured, neither did Watkins or Hardaker who dies with the ball too much. The forwards didn't dominate and the whole side struggled with Warrington's quick defence who came with a distinct tactic to slow down our PTB.

Having said that we should still have won had we kicked our goals which is a source of concern that I have previously expressed and unfortunately this weakness I believe will be repeated. Hardaker does not look a natural kicker and will need to improve dramatically to be more than just a 50%er.

On the plus side Lilley played very well and was involved in most of our best bits and IMO he should currently be a starter at halfback. I like the way he is prepared to take responsibility and I think he is also our best kicker and should be taking the goal kicks when he is on the field. Moon was once again our best Centre and I thought Ferres worked hard and Galloway and Singleton went well too.