Re: Todays game v Leeds : Mon Aug 21, 2023 5:31 pm  

I have to say that Bullock’s form must have fallen off a cliff for him to be worse than Dudson.

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Mon Aug 21, 2023 6:12 pm  

Captain Hook wrote:

But what if the alternatives really are worse?

What can be worse about planning for the future, when our track record of late is.....?

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:19 pm  

It's not rocket science... Use the time to try out future alternatives.... Drinkwater dudson and matautia dropped ( call it "rested" if you like) and replace with heyes, bullock and wrench ....it definitely won't be any worse but potentially a whole lot better ...BUT .. Give them a couple of games to get up to speed .. some of these letdowns have had about 20+ to prove they aren't up to much

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:10 am  

matt_wire wrote:

If that's the issue, blame the coaches who don't know how to deploy him. Or blame those who recruited him despite him not having a defined role in the squad. Or, if the issue is that he's past his best, blame those who still throw contracts at him. But for people to slag him off and say he isn't even a RL player is a bad thing to do for someone who's put his body on the line for our team/town for over a decade. Admittedly, we have several current players supposedly in their prime who do a shoddy job masquerading as professional RL players and we all know who they are. However, I'm not very comfortable calling someone out who has given his all for this club for so long. That's a different kettle of fish IMO. Sure if he's past his best move him on, but he shouldn't be disparaged when there are bigger wage thieves in the mix.

he has always been a very good rugby player, but we have tried him in most positions and not really been sold on him in any apart from full back but again we looked to change his position to centre and we need.a centre ... he would be perfect if we were a championship winning team.

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:03 am  

He was the safest we have had under a bomb at fullback in a long time. While Dufty had a good game on Sunday the bomb which led to a try was his to take NOT Marty Ashtons. Dufty bottled it.

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:04 pm  

Just reading on the Guardian website that Bullock & Dean picked up injuries in the reserves game against Leeds. Luckily Minikin was impressive over 80 minutes so should be available to help us out against Hull.

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:03 pm  

ninearches wrote:

Just reading on the Guardian website that Bullock & Dean picked up injuries in the reserves game against Leeds. Luckily Minikin was impressive over 80 minutes so should be available to help us out against Hull.

Makes you think does Dudson practice voodoo magic

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:19 am  

Makes me think that Chambers actually had good reason for his decision making and perhaps we were too quick to condemn him.

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:35 am  

Captain Hook wrote:

Makes me think that Chambers actually had good reason for his decision making and perhaps we were too quick to condemn him.

Absolutely.

The target game bring the one most likely to get a result, Hull FC, GC wanting to get Bullock right for that, but the plan glitched.
Now it’s about wether Dudson will let us down or not in this easier fixture on paper than Leeds.

This system GC is using is exactly what Paul Cullen did to get us into our first GF play off against the odds.

Re: Todays game v Leeds : Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:43 am  

The fact that he played Dudson ahead of Bullock is clouding the issue. The fact that he plays Dudson at all with his stats is the issue. There were other reserve props that should been ahead of Dudson.