Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 1:56 pm  

Highlander wrote:

Hmm. We're going for pace again I see. 7 players who are wing/centre/FB players in the 19man squad.

We may not have the biggest pack, but when you play centres at 2nd row, we should have the fastest pack...

Maybe the wide open spaces will suit our speedy pack!

I dont think its anything to do with going for pace,

these are the only 19 fit players we have so they all get named (as mentioned i believe after the saints game)

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 2:06 pm  

I know that! It's all because of our lack of props. 2nd row men have to cover prop, centres have to cover 2nd row.

Fortunately, we have a lot of centres

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 2:07 pm  

I was trying to find a hint of a silver lining as well

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 2:15 pm  

Highlander wrote:

I was trying to find a hint of a silver lining as well

I am afraid that was shared out amongst the other clubs, our lining is currently a little sackcloth number

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 3:17 pm  

Highlander wrote:

Hmm. We're going for pace again I see. 7 players who are wing/centre/FB players in the 19man squad.

We may not have the biggest pack, but when you play centres at 2nd row, we should have the fastest pack...

Maybe the wide open spaces will suit our speedy pack!

Unfortunately our passing is quite frankly pathetic. Worst passing side I have ever seen'

For me I would gonei with.

1. Kear
2. George
3. Henry
4. Arundel
5. Foster
6: Gaskell
7. Gale
8. Sidlow
9. Diskin
10. Walker
11. Olbison
12. Purtell
13. Donno (if 100% fit)

14. O'brien
15. Pitts (used as a prop)
16. Addy
17. Mellor

Wood and Conroy to miss out.

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 3:19 pm  

Northernrelic wrote:

I am afraid that was shared out amongst the other clubs, our lining is currently a little sackcloth number

I do hope you've cut that sackcloth accordingly...

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 3:23 pm  

I'd go with:

Gaskell
Kear
Arundel
Henry
Foster
Addy
Gale
Sidlow
Disko
Walker
Purtell
Olbison
Donno

AoB
Pitts
Mellor
George

I don't think Gaskell at 6 works. Against Catalan in the cup match, there was no reason to switch LG and BK around but Franny did it anyway, which leads me to believe that he didn't think it was working either.
George is on the bench as cover for the backs and also as a 2nd rower (god help us!) only because of how he was utilised last week.

However we pick the team for Sunday, it's always a case of square pegs into round holes. We limp from one game to the next.

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 3:25 pm  

Think it will be Saints all over again unfortunately. We will be lucky to get nil.

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 3:32 pm  

As long as we show the same attitude we had against Cats and Wire rather than the one against the Saints I won't complain.
Surely we must be due some "magic" luck?

Re: Huddersfield at Magic : Fri May 16, 2014 3:35 pm  

Nothus wrote:

I'd go with:

Gaskell
Kear
Arundel
Henry
Foster
Addy
Gale
Sidlow
Disko
Walker
Purtell
Olbison
Donno

AoB
Pitts
Mellor
George

I don't think Gaskell at 6 works. Against Catalan in the cup match, there was no reason to switch LG and BK around but Franny did it anyway, which leads me to believe that he didn't think it was working either.
George is on the bench as cover for the backs and also as a 2nd rower (god help us!) only because of how he was utilised last week.

However we pick the team for Sunday, it's always a case of square pegs into round holes. We limp from one game to the next.

I think the reason Gaskell worked so well is because we had the quality of Kearney at HB. We simply don't have this with Gale & Addy. Addy is simply not a HB. Then having a wing/centre on the bench dilutes our pack even further.

Gaskell isn't that much better at FB than HB thay we have to play half the team out of position.