: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:35 pm  

DirkDiggler wrote:

Do you realise how ridiculus that sounds!

Two 40-20s out of say 20 attempts in five games yeh great return

Two 40-20s in 5 games does suggest he has some ability to kick the ball, which is what was being questionned.

Also, we've probably only kicked three 40-20s in the past three seasons put together?!

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:42 pm  

he's actually kicked three this season , do keep up

There have been 8 this year up to now, three being from Alker.

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:56 pm  

alext wrote:

he's actually kicked three this season , do keep up

There have been 8 this year up to now, three being from Alker.

Spot on, in 2008 Michael Dobson and Lee Briers only kicked 4 each to top the 40/20 chart and in 2007 Paul Deacon kicked 5 (Robinson came joint second with 4 for us along wth Trent Barrett )

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:57 pm  

alext wrote:

he's actually kicked three this season , do keep up

Sorry, must've had my head in my hands for one of them?!

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:01 pm  

yeah , for a minute i thought i had dreamed the third one

: Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:49 pm  

alext wrote:

yeah , for a minute i thought i had dreamed the third one

I think the fact we knocked on straight away from the resulting scrum after at least two of them makes them easier to forget.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:35 am  

Thought Smith was poor again, whoever said his kicking game was good was wrong, thought sidlow played well, Nash needs dropping, Mal was immense again and thought Jordan added a different dimention when he had the ball in hand. Overall I was happy , we showed heart and defended well for long periods of time.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:15 pm  

KMT wrote:

Thought Smith was poor again, whoever said his kicking game was good was wrong, thought sidlow played well, Nash needs dropping, Mal was immense again and thought Jordan added a different dimention when he had the ball in hand. Overall I was happy , we showed heart and defended well for long periods of time.

I said improved, not "good"

He actually managed to turn the full back on a couple of occasions and wasn't kicking straight to players like last week, although once or twice he did kick it straight into someone stood directly in front of him.

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:00 pm  

Well I'm glad you didn't say 'good' because you would have been wrong. his kicking was average at best, against the big teams your kicking game needs to be spot on as we were camped in our own half for a fair amount of the match. Why didn't we kick to gardner more, that guy needed a bucket to catch it. Also smith's defence at time is shocking, but I am not gonna completely slate him as it will take a few months to settle in but he needs to step up imo

: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:12 pm  

KMT wrote:

Well I'm glad you didn't say 'good' because you would have been wrong. his kicking was average at best, against the big teams your kicking game needs to be spot on as we were camped in our own half for a fair amount of the match. Why didn't we kick to gardner more, that guy needed a bucket to catch it. Also smith's defence at time is shocking, but I am not gonna completely slate him as it will take a few months to settle in but he needs to step up imo

i think smith has given tackling up for lent