Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 5:33 pm  

When you played Salford, did you not lose Gaskell to injury midway into the first half????

Hard to attack without any halves.

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 5:36 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

When you played Salford, did you not lose Gaskell to injury midway into the first half????

Hard to attack without any halves.

We lost Kearney today in 1st half who was playing SO, but the attitude today was totally different!

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 5:38 pm  

vbfg wrote:

We were damn lucky with Pitts in the first half. He was flopping about all over the pitch after a hard hit, eventually made it back to the line (after two extended spells on his knees with his face in the dirt). When Warrington did run at him, as everyone could see that they would, we were lucky they screwed it up.

We're also lucky this ain't the NRL cos if it was the club would be facing a huge fine for that right now. He should have been straight off.

Was it a head knock? I couldn't work out whether he was concussed or just battered and bruised. I agree he should have been taken off sooner.

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 5:40 pm  

I didn't actually see what happened. Looked concussed to me though from the way he was running when he first got up. His legs weren't going where he was aiming them.

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 5:54 pm  

He took a heavy knock tackling Asotasi from a kick off return late in the first half. Not sure whether he picked up an injury there or not. He was extremely groggy for the last few minutes of the half but returned to the game in the second half and seemed OK.

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 8:15 pm  

Like many on here, 2 weeks I was calling for FC's head on a pole ... after 2 cracking, spirited performances what do I know!

Whatever has happened behind the scenes it seems to have worked, so hats to FC and team (though I would still like to see much quicker defensive line speed!)

Play like that every week, don't even think about teams around and the rest will follow ... cos you can't stop a Bull when he's made up his mind!

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 9:09 pm  

I hope everyone got their bets on yesterday for the quarter final game as I am guessing the odds have dropped a bit tonight.

If Kearney is out for a month or so we do have cover for full back and we do seem to have a surplus of backs when George is fit again after his injury in the warm-up today. Arrundel had a decent game. George played well last week so the back line looks OK. Purts was a big surprise in the second row. I didn't expect that.

If we could just bring in two more big forwards we could now have a decent second half of the season as long as Hudds don't recall the big guy after the month is up. That would knock us back again if that happened. We need some stability now not a constant swap and change. I wonder if Burke at Wigan is ready to return?

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 9:30 pm  

Hudds are definitely going to recall him when the month is up. Other outcomes are possible, no other outcome is likely. At all.

FWIW, for all that he had a good game, his main benefit to the team was enthusiasm. He won collisions and made tackles but he wasn't the difference between what we've seen and what we got today.

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 9:32 pm  

I did worry that we'd broken Pitts and would have to send him back, a la Burke.

Re: vs. Warrington Wolves - Round 11 : Sun May 04, 2014 9:39 pm  

Sometimes you really do need to hit rock bottom before players get their heads out of their arses and start putting the effort in. Wigan was an embarrassment for you guys but it's brilliant to see you now. COME ON BULLS!