Re: Workington Away : Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:16 pm  

8ULL5HITT4 wrote:

Lowes seemed to be satisfied with his contribution immediately before his injury. Perhaps he was playing the game he was required to do. We may not need him to kick goals but I would like to see an improvement in tactical kicking.
As for Mendeika I just don't get the criticism. He looks to have bags of potential and I'm confident he will become a good fit with the team. I'd be happy to see him at 6 or 1 and maybe interchanging those roles with Mullaney.

He's been good in the games he played but last week he really struggled with te ball bobbling a long ground. Seemed to improve when Shaw came on.

With Siejka coming back, Mendieka is one to miss out for me.

Re: Workington Away : Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:16 pm  

I'd go:

Shaw
Uaisele
Henry
Purtell
Williams
Mullaney
Siejka
Clough
O'Brien
Sidlow
Pitts
Olbison
Addy

Ferguson
Crossley
Lauaki
Blythe

Fleming and Mendieka to miss out for me.

Re: Workington Away : Sun Jun 21, 2015 1:27 pm  

interesting team selection.

sjelka at standoff with addy at scrumhalf. shaw replaces uiasele on wing. mullane at fb. uiasele and fleming miss out.

was hoping we'd go sjelka mullaney in halves with sjelka in his correct position.

Re: Workington Away : Sun Jun 21, 2015 4:09 pm  

Listened on bcb and sounded like the props struggled again. Mullaney sounded threatening and 2 more points.

Re: Workington Away : Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:19 pm  

Wasn't at the game but did sound like we struggled at times. I'd freshen things up for our 3 games in 7 days, but I think Jimmyy will go with the same.

Also I think we need a bigger bench. Don't see point in having a full back on there. Especially when Blythe can play a number of positions.

Sounded like our fitness got us through again but this won't work come the super 8's. We need to start seeing better performances. At the moment we'recdoing just enough

Re: Workington Away : Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:17 pm  

Suspect having mendeika/shaw on bench is to give some cover for mullaney and sjielka who are returning from long term injuries. Once we're confident their 100% we can strengthen bench

Re: Workington Away : Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:41 pm  

Did attend the game today but didn't understand tactic of keeping Lauaki on the bench for first50 minutes when we struggled to match Towns threat of comeback. Halves struggled to gel again - really need a cover pair for when Gasky is not playing - don't think Addy is the answer despite whole hearted commitment. We still seem to be simmering in games rather being near the boil. Also thought ref had a poor game -allowed far too much lying on to let Town slow the game down.

Re: Workington Away : Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:46 pm  

It was one of those games this season where we didn't win by showing more class than the opposition, but full time vs part time told. But 2pts in the bag. Luauki had his best game for us, Clough & sidlow did ok, crossleyhad less impact than we've seen the last couple of games. AoB still consistently good, Pitts was my MoM. Siejka was steady, and casting my mind back to his last game, is continuing to improve, which is actually impressive after such a long layoff. The half back pairing didn't quite work, which was the main problem with that game. There are other combinations to try, but for the next few weeks we are going to have a Gaskell- shaped hole in the side. Lots of work to do in training in the meantime.

Ref - basically we should be used to it by now. Can't do 2 things at once. Decided to referee the ruck, and completely ignored the offside.

Re: Workington Away : Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:53 pm  

Very much a Jekyll and Hyde performance. Far too disjointed at times and lacking the required cohesiveness in the halves to direct us around the park. No point Sidlow and Clough doing the hard yards for everything to break down from the fourth tackle onwards.

Jay Pitts and Jake Mullaney the standouts. Great support from the Bulls faithful once again.

[Bulliac]

Re: Workington Away : Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:02 am  

Was a better performance than last week, though that's not saying much. Jekyll and Hyde, yeah, that sums it up pretty well. Good in parts and whilst not always 'bad' it was far too laid back at other times. Fair enough, we don't need the intensity in many of these games but, to me, we should be trying to maintain it, for the times coming soon, when we certainly will.

Pittsy never stopped, A O'B too was generally in the thick of it, Danny Williams ran well too. Sidlow and Clough went in hard and Sidders took his scores well, After around nine weeks out Harry Siejka did as much as could be expected. Too many periods of lethargy though, still we knew we could run away with it in the end, didn't we - is that any excuse though?

I noticed before the game than all the players interviewed gave a mention to "the long run" to Workington and how "tiring" 4 hours on the coach was going to be. Seems they may have talked themselves into that performance.

As an edit, I'll also mention Purts who had none of the faults and played well, imo.