Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 6:43 pm  

For every piece of Chisholm brilliance today, he made a stupid play, and that moment where he should have passed to Moss (or whoever was on his left shoulder) but instead tried to throw an unnecessary dummy. AOB deserved his MoM. He was lively today - he responded brilliantly to the gaps in the line as they appeared and made a mug of the markers on several occasions.

I'm glad this season is over and now we can look to the future without enduring more of the tripe we've put on this season.

I hope everyone got a chance to sample a sausage from the German sausage stand - they were delicious!!

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 7:14 pm  

DrFeelgood wrote:

For every piece of Chisholm brilliance today, he made a stupid play, and that moment where he should have passed to Moss (or whoever was on his left shoulder) but instead tried to throw an unnecessary dummy.

Really?? He got us the ball back on at least 5 occasions and his General kicking was spot on too. I think he made 2 mistakes, one where he threw a forward pass on the last tackle instead of kicking and the dummy. But if had have passed it and the full back intercepted, we would have still been moaning. But it was hardly every good think he did he made a mistake. I think it was at least y good things he did he made 1 mistake.

Give me someone like Chisholm who may have a mistake in him, but has the craft and predictability to come up with plays not many in SL can muster. We need creativity, not a steady Eddie who does a nice safe drop off that everyone in the stadium can see coming.

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 7:23 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Agreed. We struggled when we lost Sidlow and Kavanagh. Yere took a lot of holding as usual and Tyson always beat the first man.

For the middle 40mins we were 2nd best. Had it not been for Chisholm and his unorthodox kicking we'd probably have lost.

Almost half that side were playing their last game for us and that's for the best I think.

Better times just around the corner.

Sam.. you're making me blush!

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 7:42 pm  

When is the open top bus parade through the city centre?

Thank goodness it is all over for a few months.
As FA says, lets just be pleased we are still here and have something positive to look forward to next year. The backs are fine for me apart from a decent centre but Smith needs to pull a few big nasty rabbits out of the hat to stiffen us up down the middle.

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 7:47 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

If we're still looking for a centre we should sign Tyson from Sheffield. He made Welham look second rate today.

Absolutely agree. I thought he was excellent.

Hopefully the 3000 odd crowd will have boosted Sheffield's coffers a little as well.

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 7:51 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Really?? He got us the ball back on at least 5 occasions and his General kicking was spot on too. I think he made 2 mistakes, one where he threw a forward pass on the last tackle instead of kicking and the dummy. But if had have passed it and the full back intercepted, we would have still been moaning. But it was hardly every good think he did he made a mistake. I think it was at least y good things he did he made 1 mistake.

Give me someone like Chisholm who may have a mistake in him, but has the craft and predictability to come up with plays not many in SL can muster. We need creativity, not a steady Eddie who does a nice safe drop off that everyone in the stadium can see coming.

I don't disagree that some of what he did today was brilliant - I have never seen a team regain the ball from the restart so often in the game and that was all down to him. I'm sure he made more errors than two, but that's academic I suppose. I may have been slightly critical in my appraisal but that's probably because I couldn't be ar*ed recollecting the number of times he made a stupid play

[Bullseye]

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:02 pm  

VanGinger wrote:

Sam.. you're making me blush!

I hope we never sink that low

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:26 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

On the minus side, Green suggested we should get to the ground early, and spend with the Bulls rather than outside the ground. So i did. I made my way to our allotted shrine behind the stand, and ordered a pie and a pint. "Sorry sir, no pies". Why not? Some feeble excuse that made no sense. What is this? A Final, and we can't even get some fscking pies in? I thought that was pretty bad - until I sat down and the lady on our table said they didn't even have any crisps. "Shambles" isn't the word.

I was stood behind a bloke in the bar behind the stand (the only bar behind there that's open now by the way) at about 2:30 who was told they'd sold out of Crisps. It seems they don't have a large stock at all of them and they go quickly. Now someone with business sense might think that means get some more available, but apparently it's been like that at least since we ended up in the Shield.

It's baffling at times. Green keeps making these noises about spending money in the ground, but then all you hear is how they sell out of things way too quickly, or the gates don't open until late anyway. It seems like quite a shambles to me.

[Bullseye]

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 9:20 pm  

He's not a great businessman. I think that's clear.

Re: Championship Shield Final : Sun Oct 02, 2016 10:33 pm  

The clue was in the name all along.