: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:16 pm  

Nicky Saxton; Ryan Atkins, Richard Johnson,Karl Pryce, David Haley; Mark Flanagan, Matt Brooks;Tony Tonks, Richard Dobson, Matt James, Ben Feehan,Anthony Szostak, Brett Ferres.

Thats our reserve squad for 2005. Worrying thing is that it looks nearly as strong as our first team at the moment.


BTW, where's Saxton at now?

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:21 pm  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

Nicky Saxton; Ryan Atkins, Richard Johnson,Karl Pryce, David Haley; Mark Flanagan, Matt Brooks;Tony Tonks, Richard Dobson, Matt James, Ben Feehan,Anthony Szostak, Brett Ferres.

Thats our reserve squad for 2005. Worrying thing is that it looks nearly as strong as our first team at the moment.


BTW, where's Saxton at now?

Thought Matt James was out on loan for the season?

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:50 pm  

What was platty thinking?

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:50 pm  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

Nicky Saxton; Ryan Atkins, Richard Johnson,Karl Pryce, David Haley; Mark Flanagan, Matt Brooks;Tony Tonks, Richard Dobson, Matt James, Ben Feehan,Anthony Szostak, Brett Ferres.

Thats our reserve squad for 2005. Worrying thing is that it looks nearly as strong as our first team at the moment.

Even more worrying is how few of them have played in our first team 4 years later

Dave Halley gets a few minutes off the bench, and I think Johnson played one match.

Atkins was shipped off before he played (mistake, as it turned out), as were Ferres and Pryce. Matt James has played a few matches but seems to be out of favour

The rest have disappeared without a trace

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:02 pm  

Im willing to give SM till easter weekend but if he does nothing then surely its time for him to go no more exscuses plus Platt needs to be dropped makes far to many costly mistakes put Sykes to FB.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:05 pm  

jsb1990 wrote:

Im willing to give SM till easter weekend but if he does nothing then surely its time for him to go no more exscuses plus Platt needs to be dropped makes far to many costly mistakes put Sykes to FB.

We saw what happened with Sykes at FB the other week.

Platt made that one awful mistake, which had it been otherwise could have been the start of a run by Nero for the matchwinning try, and he slipped and missed a difficult tackle (when he was last line of defence anyway) which let another try in - as happens to fullbacks.

What other costly mistakes did he make? And don't say missed tackles cos they all did that.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:19 pm  

jsb1990 wrote:

Im willing to give SM till easter weekend but if he does nothing then surely its time for him to go no more exscuses plus Platt needs to be dropped makes far to many costly mistakes put Sykes to FB.

Don't sit on the fence. The next game is the Easter weekend. What worries me is that the team will raise their game against the local rivals and we will all be waiting for another month before something is done.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:21 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

We saw what happened with Sykes at FB the other week.

Platt made that one awful mistake, which had it been otherwise could have been the start of a run by Nero for the matchwinning try, and he slipped and missed a difficult tackle (when he was last line of defence anyway) which let another try in - as happens to fullbacks.

What other costly mistakes did he make? And don't say missed tackles cos they all did that.

Indeed. Sykes is also prone to the odd brain fart too. I would keep Platt at FB because he did ok today and has looked good in the last few games. If we dropped a player after every big mistake we'd never have the same side each week!

One player who surely does need a rest is Deacon, he is adding very little to the side right now. His passing is poor, his general play kicking has been poor even his goal kicking has been inconsistent. But far more worryingly is the ease in which the opposition are running through him. His missed tackles have led directly to 4 tries that I can think of in the last two games. I'd promote Halley to the starting line up too to face Leeds.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:21 pm  

rugbyreddog wrote:

Don't sit on the fence. The next game is the Easter weekend. What worries me is that the team will raise their game against the local rivals and we will all be waiting for another month before something is done.

It worries you that we might beat Leeds? Odd.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:22 pm  

debaser wrote:

It worries you that we might beat Leeds? Odd.

Beat me to it!!!