: Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:49 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Briers is finished.

N'ah mate he's only just started.

There's a lock in down at the bulls head tonight.

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:54 pm  

Roger Whittakers Penis wrote:

N'ah mate he's only just started.

There's a lock in down at the bulls head tonight.

The Billinge Arms is where Briers and Gleeson can often be found staggering around.

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:02 pm  

There's a combination of can't run (Monaghan) and won't run (Briers)...and if your halves don't run at the defence all that the opposition have to do is pick up the support runners...

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:04 pm  

Southstander05 wrote:

Two second halves where we don't score - end of

Scored at Saints.

HTH

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:15 pm  

I thought last week that maybe you were just bettered by a superb side. Tonight showed me that I was wrong.

You guys deserve better than that. There seems to be a common theme at recent under achievers: learnt all they know at the Dulls. Noble, McNamara and Lowes.

For me, the best business of the winter was Brown going to Hudds. I think maybe you would have been better hanging on to Cullen until you could find a coach, rather than just appointing the drive and drive of the Bulls.

Alright, I'm a Wakey fan, but like all of us, I am a fan of the greatest game, and I want some other team to break the top two monopoly, and for as long as you and Wigan put up with more Bulls rejects, it's not going to happen.


Good luck, but don't start the revival next week.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:28 pm  

Rugbychick™ wrote:

While Lowes was there by any chance???

I honestly think Lowes has got us playing that kind of RL. At least with Cullen we played some lovely attacking rugby. It may not always have come off and we may have dropped the ball a lot but we played with flair and emulated Saints. Now not only are we playing boring forward-heavy rugby, we're playing rubbish, boring, forward-heavy rugby.

I think Lowes is trying to move as far away as possible from what Cullen has us working towards and that is not doing us any good at all when we have some cracking talent in our backs.

Couldnt understand that you had catalans rocking in the first half, yet decided to take the 2 points instead of pounding the ball in again and going for it like they did to you in the second half.

: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:57 pm  

I get the feeling that Lowes's system is making the halves look poorer than they are.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:02 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

He gave away three penalties and from those you conceded three tries. It's normal from him, look at his stats.

His stats show less than 1 penalty per game.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:07 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

You wasted your money on Higham. You should have signed a good 6 and moved Monaghan to 9.

Sorry, but Higham is one of our better players. He looks absolute class, even in the poor team performances we have seen. Youir loss I'm afraid.

: Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:10 am  

Geordie wrote:

Smacks of Bradford under Noble 8-10 years ago. Those tactics will no longer work in Superleague.

Even though we struggled a little last season as a spectator I would much rather watch what Paul Cullen had them playing like than the 5 drives and a kick crap under lowes.

Might aswell do without the half backs and just chuck 2 extra forwards on.

Bradford were not five drives and a kick under Noble. They were more like that under Elliott, Noble got them playing more rugby league.

The Bradford I remember which won SL titles used to have Henry and Robbie Paul tearing teams up the middle, offloading forwards like Forshaw and Gartner, or cutting teams up out wide with Hape and Vainikolo.

I would certainly accept that style of rugby league.