Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 11:37 am  

Forshaw-esque front roll.

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 11:46 am  

Bullseye wrote:

Must say I was very impressed with our own Ethan Ryan yesterday. All three tries were something special. That second with the "in and away" was bloody great.

Chuffed that he's signed up.

He also made some crucial and very well executed tackles in the second half. At least 2 or 3 important "ball and all" tackles when Swinton had an overlap on that side, which if he hadn't made them, it would have been a sure fire try. That overlap of course having been created by Kurt Haggerty losing his rag.

Ethan scored 12 points, but he also saved between 8 and 18 almost single handedly.

The lad done good.

[Bullseye]

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:16 pm  

Yes I was really impressed with his defence too. It was better than a lot of other wingers I’ve seen play for us in recent years. One particular tackle in the second half when he stopped a 3 man overlap was superb.

He’s shown what he’s capable of now. The challenge is to maintain that and improve on it.

On another note I expect he’ll be at the sponsors quiz night next week, do fellow sponsors have any questions they’d like to put to him or Joe?

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:24 pm  

He looks a superb player. By the sounds of it, a lot of it is down to him knuckling down, grafting and trying to improve himself as much as possible.

His defence (Positioning and tackling) is the best i've seen from a winger for sometime and i would include SL players in that too. Get him in open space and not many catch him and he as an amazing ability to beat defenders when one on one, either by beating them for pace on the outside, or producing outstanding footwork to send them the wrong way. A very special talent we have on our hands.

[Bulliac]

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:46 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Must say I was very impressed with our own Ethan Ryan yesterday. All three tries were something special. That second with the "in and away" was bloody great.

Chuffed that he's signed up.

12 tries form 11 appearances - hope he doesn't read this and take his foot off the gas but that is a marginally better rate than Vainikolo...

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:04 pm  

I agree I think Ryan is a star of the future, just hope we can hold on to him. Highlight of the game for me was Chisolm turning round on the Swinton 20 line on his way to scoring, to signal (can`t think of a better description) to Swinton and probably the inept referee UP YOURS. Actually surprised the referee did not disallow the try for some infringement like using foul hands.

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:08 pm  

The young lad Ryan has barely put a foot wrong all season. Never seen him get put on his back either, in addition to all the superlatives above.

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:42 pm  

ifallwerelikemumby wrote:

Highlight of the game for me was Chisolm turning round on the Swinton 20 line on his way to scoring, to signal (can`t think of a better description) to Swinton and probably the inept referee UP YOURS. Actually surprised the referee did not disallow the try for some infringement like using foul hands.

I personally didn't like that. But it's because I'm not keen on people being a bit of an idiot, and that's what that came across as.

However numerous times people have said that your best halves in the world often have a little bit of that d*ckhead in them. Numerous examples can be listed and have been on here before. So if he needs to be a bit of that in order to be a better player, then I'll take it.

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:18 pm  

paulwalker71 wrote:

Well, the 13 vs 11 certainly made it a bit more interesting didn't it?

I've seen games against Swinton twice now this season, and I hope I never have to watch them again - grubby, niggly, and downright dirty. Our indiscipline almost cost us, but you can hardly blame people for taking a swing when there's endless provocation and the ref only seems to see what he wants to see.

Again though, some strange selections. Why exactly was Howarth playing instead of Lumb, and Ferguson in place of Bentley? For goodness sake, we've already guaranteed top spot in the Shield - it was a DEAD rubber!!! Why didn't we have 3 or 4 of the Academy graduates mixed into the 17 for today?

Laughable...you want to watch your own video of Haggerty getting sent off..first he puts a knee in and then a clear head butt and then there was the ludicrous head high tackle late in the second half but hey I doubt you think any of this makes the Bulls grubby, niggly and downright dirty. Rose tinted glasses spring to mind.

[Bullseye]

Re: Swinton Lions 4/9/16 : Tue Sep 06, 2016 8:08 am  

I don't think anyone's condoned what Haggerty did. Clark's high shot late on was a lazy effort done without any intent.

The Bulls fell into the trap of being put off their game by niggly tactics. Shame Swinton have this side to their game as they're capable of playing rugby when they forget about the niggle.