Re: London Skolars (A) : Fri Jul 27, 2018 11:31 am  

Bulliac wrote:

Errm, no - The lessons being that the KR players were better than the ones York substituted for them against London - thus explaining why they only beat them by the same two points as in our game.

By ours, I meant from a York POV. So yes, the lesson being that KR's players are better than York's. I didn't mean better than Bradford's, although to be fair, I think they probably are.

Re: London Skolars (A) : Fri Jul 27, 2018 1:15 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

By ours, I meant from a York POV. So yes, the lesson being that KR's players are better than York's. I didn't mean better than Bradford's, although to be fair, I think they probably are.

You have got to feel a little bit sorry for those York players who played against London, and then were preparing for probably the biggest game of their career to date the following week, just to be told they were dropped as some KR players who were coming in on loan, for one game (apparently).

Re: London Skolars (A) : Fri Jul 27, 2018 1:36 pm  

Fr13daY wrote:

You have got to feel a little bit sorry for those York players who played against London, and then were preparing for probably the biggest game of their career to date the following week, just to be told they were dropped as some KR players who were coming in on loan, for one 2game (apparently).

Well they will get a game this week now the KR players have been moved on to Leigh.

Re: London Skolars (A) : Fri Jul 27, 2018 1:59 pm  

Marvin Goolash wrote:

Well they will get a game this week now the KR players have been moved on to Leigh.

Yeah. Shame it wasn't a week earlier really.

Re: London Skolars (A) : Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:47 pm  

Scored some good tries (Chisholms was a cracker) but far too many schoolboy errors again. 2 hospital passes to Ethan in our own 30. So frustrating at times. Its a small pitch, we can kill them with off-loads.

Also with Hallas last week proving to anyone who had any doubt that he's not a hooker, Halafihi having a dodgy start today, i really question the decision to let Butterworth go.

Re: London Skolars (A) : Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:43 pm  

Chisholms best game in ages

Re: London Skolars (A) : Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:45 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Scored some good tries (Chisholms was a cracker) but far too many schoolboy errors again. 2 hospital passes to Ethan in our own 30. So frustrating at times. Its a small pitch, we can kill them with off-loads.

Also with Hallas last week proving to anyone who had any doubt that he's not a hooker, Halafihi having a dodgy start today, i really question the decision to let Butterworth go.

I think the decision was not in Bradford's hands tbh. They seem to have done alright in terms of getting players from Cas on loan mind you

Re: London Skolars (A) : Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:47 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Scored some good tries (Chisholms was a cracker) but far too many schoolboy errors again. 2 hospital passes to Ethan in our own 30. So frustrating at times. Its a small pitch, we can kill them with off-loads.

Also with Hallas last week proving to anyone who had any doubt that he's not a hooker, Halafihi having a dodgy start today, i really question the decision to let Butterworth go.

On the whole not too bad I would have taken that score this morning, Halafihi a bit rusty and yes those hospital passes were baffling. There were plenty of positives i.e. Egodo and I thought Chisholm was very good, the issue that bothers me is James Green caused chaos in their defense pretty well every carry I cannot understand why no-one can push up to get on his shoulder for the off-load.

[Bullseye]

Re: London Skolars (A) : Sat Jul 28, 2018 4:47 pm  

Great debut from Egodo. Lilley also seemed to be getting more involved as we went on. Plenty of positives. On the negative side Chisholm threw some awful passes in the 1st half, we lacked patience and needed to be more clinical. Think the message got out at half time.

[Bulliac]

Re: London Skolars (A) : Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:01 am  

Thought Chissy was outstanding and probably our MOM with James Green very close behind (if at all..). Fair enough, that came with the odd howler but with that kind of attacking skill I'll put up an occasional shocker.

Generally a good solid performance from all, with the new blokes seeming to fit as though they'd been here all year - pretty much from the off too as, for a change, we made very few errors in the opening quarter. I was very impressed with Egodo, he looks the business.

I've edited this to mention the wind, which was very dominant, particularly in the first half, and the good performance playing against this, and ending the half with a solid lead shouldn't be underestimated. All round good performance for me.