Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:06 am  

Not surprising. He did the full 80 minutes. Did Garside do the same? That's going to be the next decision for Kear. Once he feels Chisholm is up to speed, I'm afraid that Pickersgill will be dropped to fit an extra 2nd row man on the bench.
The bench allowed for prop rotation, the rotation between Hallas, Milton & Flanagan and then the rotation of the halves & FB - but eventually the 2nd row men will need rotation as well.
The 2nd half, both the 2nd row men were beginning to look fatigued.

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:08 am  

Blotto wrote:

Hopefully the Bulls TV version of the match is far better than the quality offered by Proper Sports that had poor video and audio ( although saying that there were some decent silent bits )

Must admit, as much as I appreciate the option being there, I found it difficult to watch at times yesterday. The picture was incredibly pixelated on the TV I was watching it on (I don't have a tablet, just a computer connected to the main Television) and froze quite a bit if in full screen. If I knocked it down to not be fullscreen, it was still quite poor quality video.

I'm not knocking it as it's a free service and I'm not expecting HD quality, but there were times I didn't really know what was happening and considered sacking it.

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:25 am  

We were talking yesterday about it being a shame that Pickersgill will probably be dropped. but then we thought could we still have him on the bench with three forwards and go with and possibly expect the new hooker to do 80 mins or rotated with one of the forwards.
I think Pickersgill is very promising and will be a shame if he drops out of the team. We do now have 3 decent halves plus young Milnes who could also be very decent in a couple of years. There are clearly going to be quite a few games where we can rest our first choice players and give the fringe lads a go.

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:36 am  

Blotto wrote:

Hopefully the Bulls TV version of the match is far better than the quality offered by Proper Sports that had poor video and audio ( although saying that there were some decent silent bits )

The Bulls TV version is always going to be better quality as they've had two to three days to get the match off the cameras, compress it and sync it correctly, and upload it using far more data than is probably practical during the live match.

One thing that I imagine is frustrating to people is that Proper Sports are also advertising the Bulls matches as on demand after the event, which is true, but it's simply an archive of the broadcast as was so if there is poor transmission that cuts out at 3pm Sunday, there still will be when you are watching with your Coco Pops on Monday morning.

As an educated guess, so much of this will be reliant on the set ups at the away grounds and some will be better than others, hence I don't think they have guaranteed every away game will be streamed live, more of a "best efforts" sort of thing depending on the state of the ground, internet connections etc. We haven't had a "live" broadcast from Odsal yet just one cup game on delay, and I wonder if the team have done so much testing there over the winter that things might be a bit more consistent as things are more familiar.

Personally I could make out everything that was happening for the vast majority of the time, and there have been times where I've been at a game live and been at one end of the ground not knowing what was happening at the other, so those unfortunate moments where that happened yesterday were no big deal to me. It's a work in progress and I'm glad I got to see the game whereas otherwise I wouldn't have.

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:37 am  

woolly07 wrote:

We were talking yesterday about it being a shame that Pickersgill will probably be dropped. but then we thought could we still have him on the bench with three forwards and go with and possibly expect the new hooker to do 80 mins or rotated with one of the forwards.
I think Pickersgill is very promising and will be a shame if he drops out of the team. We do now have 3 decent halves plus young Milnes who could also be very decent in a couple of years. There are clearly going to be quite a few games where we can rest our first choice players and give the fringe lads a go.

There'll be plenty of time this year when one of McNally, Keyes or Chisholm are injured or needing a rest. Pickersgill could be the first choice to come in as that cover. He'll still get plenty of game time to help his development, without the burn out of being in there every week and without as much pressure. Then in a year or two, he's much more ready for a regular place.

[Bullseye]

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:20 am  

Before the season started I was a bit concerned about whether we had enough halfback cover, we now seem to have almost an embarrassment of riches. It's good to see Pickersgill doing well, it must be down to his sponsors

It's great to see such a strong spirit in the camp, especially after the last few years. I genuinely feel that on the field we've definitely turned a corner.

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:18 am  

We seemed to deal with Keighley much better than during the pre-season game.
Seems Kear was wise to their wind-up tactics and looked to have instructed the boys to not get involved and as such Keighley had no plan B and were deftly put to the sword.

Hopefully, winning becomes habit forming for the team and we can go a fair way before we get anything in the L column.

[Bullseye]

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:33 am  

roger daly wrote:

When Elliot got spear tackled my first thought as a dad was hope he is ok, he then got up and walked away which was very pleasing. He dropped me off at the pub before the game and my last words were "do not get sent off", which he didn't, which was nice

The fact that he seemed to make a conscious effort to walk away after being speared rather than get involved in the afters showed he was listening to you

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:46 am  

Bullseye wrote:

The fact that he seemed to make a conscious effort to walk away after being speared rather than get involved in the afters showed he was listening to you

Yes it seems that way, i am taking the credit for that

Re: Keighley (A) : Mon Mar 12, 2018 12:13 pm  

What was attendance yesterday?