Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:24 pm  

Second half an absolute shambles.

No where near acceptable

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:25 pm  

How many subs were made at half time?
Questions over our fitness levels maybe? Wouldn't be the first time.

Also fighting in a friendly a week before our season starts is about as dumb as it gets.

[Bullseye]

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:06 pm  

Well that turned out pretty much how I expected. Not a bad first half. Goy well beaten in the second half especially when we started bringing on our kids and fringe players. Hopefully no injuries.

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:26 pm  

I felt that defensively we were brilliant in the first half. Leeds had 15/20 mins camped on our line and our defence stood strong. The only chances we made were both converted into tries which was positive. In the second half we really struggled to get going and the constant changing of the team through substitutions made for a disjointed and inconsistent second half performance.

It was clear that during the second half that defensive effort had sapped a lot of our energy levels. Leeds came out the better team in the second half and their fitness levels saw them pull away comfortably. A good test for the squad as we enter the 2022 season.

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:30 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Well that turned out pretty much how I expected. Not a bad first half. Goy well beaten in the second half especially when we started bringing on our kids and fringe players. Hopefully no injuries.

They scored 24 points before we brought all the kids on.

Utter dross of a second half after an encouraging 1st 40

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:35 pm  

Great defence in the first half but as been said leeds youngsters too quick for us in second half. Gill and Patton very good again and strong performances at prop from walker and Crossley. Any of the 3 loanees from Leeds could walk into our starting 18 from todays showing. A bit disappointed with Baldwinsons efforts for a big man.

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:53 pm  

Peter Goddard wrote:

Great defence in the first half but as been said leeds youngsters too quick for us in second half. Gill and Patton very good again and strong performances at prop from walker and Crossley. Any of the 3 loanees from Leeds could walk into our starting 18 from todays showing. A bit disappointed with Baldwinsons efforts for a big man.

Baldwinson is very much more of a Kirk type of player I’d say not really a player you have to debt the line just more a general hard worker

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:55 pm  

Total control in the first half. Flanagan got MoM for us and was the difference. I think he dominated and “old manned” their hooker in that first half but overall our mindset in defence was excellent. He then went off ( the first change we made in the spine of the team) and we lost ruck control and their hooker got into the game.
When he got back on, it was 12:12 and he stopped the rot for a little while. Then we started ringing the changes and the scoreboard ran away from us.
I wasn’t as impressed with the 3 Leeds players as they obviously are with themselves…
Mustapha is similar to what we have with Scurr, the hooker struggled to outplay Flanagan, I can’t remember who the third one was

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:04 pm  

Highlander wrote:

I can’t remember who the third one was

Jarrod O’Connor, Muizz Mustapha and Corey Johnson will all join the Bulls on loan at the start of the 2022 season. Mustapha seems like a workhouse who put in some serious minutes today. He wasn’t shy in coming forward when the punches started to fly as well.

Will be interesting to see how they go this year.

[Bullseye]

Re: Leeds Friendly (H) 23rd Jan : Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:51 pm  

I thought all the Leeds loanees looked pretty good TBH.