Re: Leigh (H) : Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:40 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Spot on!

If you, 'fly out', the one thing you must do is make the tackle. Coming out to, 'put a shot on' , is rarely a good idea - except when Paul Medley used to do it, of course, well...., sometimes when Medders used to do it.....

Scruton was also quite handy at it. Until they outlawed shoulder charges and then he calmed down.

[Bulliac]

Re: Leigh (H) : Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:05 am  

He was, you're right. Same applies as it did to Medders though - it was good when it came off and, whilst fans loved it [including me], it was never really a reliable 'business' tackle.

Re: Leigh (H) : Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:15 am  

Bulliac wrote:

He was, you're right. Same applies as it did to Medders though - it was good when it came off and, whilst fans loved it [including me], it was never really a reliable 'business' tackle.

Absolutely. Almost as high risk as one of those big looping passes Iestyn used to give away once a week.

Although it was useful sometimes when an opposition player needed putting in his place. I remember a friendly at Dewsbury and there was a bit fat knacker playing for the Rams (I forget his name now). Tried to rough up one of our young lads. Scruton came off the bench and absolutely destroyed the bloke with a huge hit. Never seen a better non-verbal way of saying "pick on someone your own size".

Re: Leigh (H) : Thu Mar 03, 2016 2:34 am  

I'll be honest, I thought in that 65 minutes Welham was the worst player on the pitch. I rate the bloke very highly and he will be a very good signing this season. But on Sunday his defence was woeful. Fell off most attempts, grabbing shirts etc. He left Caro a few times with a Leigh overlap but the bit I remember most was in the second half. He missed a tackle at centre, then he proceed to chase the player to the middle of the pitch to try make a tackle, at which point he grabbed the shirt. It reminded me of an Under 9's match where the players chase the ball, which in turn left a gap out wide (again).

Don't get me wrong his catch for his try was superb and there were many poor players in that 65 mins. But he was for me, the worst in those dire 65 mins. However as I say, he will be fantastic for us this season. Along with Mitch Clark.

Re: Leigh (H) : Thu Mar 03, 2016 6:38 am  

Having watched the match on Bulls TV I could see Marc Green saying to the Squad I'm paying you Full Time yet you're playing Part Time!
Leigh were guilty of that old Bulls habit of switching off thinking game won, though you couldn't blame them as the Bulls were an embarrassing shambles for 60+ minutes! Jimmy says he'll take the blame for the way the Bulls approached the game, but even more worrying is that there was no plan B(Nobby was unfairly castigated for not having one on a regular basis) as plan A was not working and the Team just let Leigh dominate them all over the park.
We could use FA's explanation and say that if the plan was to tire Leigh out then it worked brilliantly save for Addy's iffy line kicking for goal the Bulls should have won the match!!
I'm not worried about early season match's I don't expect or want the Bulls to peak until the super 8's but it's difficult to keep playing below their potential all the time Jimmy needs to ramp it up for the bigger games.
Still if was easy it would be boring!

Re: Leigh (H) : Thu Mar 03, 2016 6:43 am  

Plan? We had a plan?

Re: Leigh (H) : Thu Mar 03, 2016 7:01 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

:THINK: Plan? We had a plan?

Metaphorically speaking

Re: Leigh (H) : Thu Mar 03, 2016 12:28 pm  

Having now watched the game online it was just as I witnessed at the time and pretty much as everyone on here has written. The only difference is that bloke co-commentating. They need to get him off, he makes Stevo sound like the best there is. He even managed to ruin the last 15 minutes for me.

[Bulliac]

Re: Leigh (H) : Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:18 pm  

Blotto wrote:

Metaphorically speaking

Well, indeed! If the plan was to kick off and play it by ear and see what happens, then that was the plan!

Re: Leigh (H) : Fri Mar 04, 2016 5:20 am  

Did Ross set Addy up with this one http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... ague_side/ Or did they collude to wind up the usual morons on the T & A comments page?

Did Ross set Addy up with this one http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... ague_side/ Or did they collude to wind up the usual morons on the T & A comments page?