Re: 21 Man squads v York : Sun Feb 16, 2020 7:24 pm  

A pretty faultless performance against a solid team who we completely outplayed. Brilliant under the high ball. Solid in defence - they never looked like scoring and clinical in attack. We look like a very good team lacking only perhaps real pace.

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Sun Feb 16, 2020 7:24 pm  

A pretty faultless performance against a solid team who we completely outplayed. Brilliant under the high ball. Solid in defence - they never looked like scoring and clinical in attack. We look like a very good team lacking only perhaps real pace.

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Sun Feb 16, 2020 7:54 pm  

Cokey wrote:

Pretty good summary that Deeeeekers.

Agreed.

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Sun Feb 16, 2020 8:19 pm  

A high class performance today and a pleasure to witness - this is a bench mark to aspire to going forward.
Quality 1 thru 17 and we have quality players still waiting desperately to get their chance.
JD has some difficult decisions going forward - credit it to him for not making unforced changes to his selection today. The guys who have the shirts are playing very well.
Batley in the Cup on Friday gives him (and us) the opportunity to assess the quality of those who haven't yet had their chance. With Gregg McNally and Nathan Mason picking up knocks today there are opportunities to give game time to other guys.
Apart from not risking the guys carrying knocks how about picking Sammut and Riddy in the halves and giving Shaw, Mullen, Field, Brooks and Spencer a run.

P.S. A very important negative that still needs to be addressed - we are still, week-on-week conceding avoidable and soft penalties - this will come back to bite us sooner or later if it is not corrected.

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Sun Feb 16, 2020 8:58 pm  

PlayTheBall wrote:

A high class performance today and a pleasure to witness - this is a bench mark to aspire to going forward.
Quality 1 thru 17 and we have quality players still waiting desperately to get their chance.
JD has some difficult decisions going forward - credit it to him for not making unforced changes to his selection today. The guys who have the shirts are playing very well.
Batley in the Cup on Friday gives him (and us) the opportunity to assess the quality of those who haven't yet had their chance. With Gregg McNally and Nathan Mason picking up knocks today there are opportunities to give game time to other guys.
Apart from not risking the guys carrying knocks how about picking Sammut and Riddy in the halves and giving Shaw, Mullen, Field, Brooks and Spencer a run.

P.S. A very important negative that still needs to be addressed - we are still, week-on-week conceding avoidable and soft penalties - this will come back to bite us sooner or later if it is not corrected.

I thought the ref was more relaxed in York slowing the ptb than Leigh.

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:17 am  

Cokey wrote:

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I thought the ref was more relaxed in York slowing the ptb than Leigh.

Agreed Derek, the Golborne winker !

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:17 am  

I enjoyed listening to the game and I’m really looking forward to seeing the game on LCTV. It sounds like Reynolds and Woods had really good games again and the whole team played well as a group. Early doors of course but JD seems to have got the team ticking and ready to set a solid foundation over these opening games. London and Toulouse and Fev also seem to be rolling early, so it every game is vital.
Great start lads, keep it up

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:28 am  

Cokey wrote:

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I thought the ref was more relaxed in York slowing the ptb than Leigh.

I agree - the referee should have penalised York much more - he let them delay the ptb all game. York were also frequently offside and were allowed to get away with it. Perhaps this is a positive for us - we put them under so much pressure they were forced to resort to these tactics.
However, the fact remains that we can only control our own penalty count and we have conceded 30 penalties in our 3 Championship games. In my opinion this number is far too high and puts us under unnecessary pressure.
Fortunately our defence has thus far been exemplary - a major factor in putting our opponents to the sword.
I suggest that a reduced penalty count would result in less defending and leave us with even more energy for attack. This will be crucial going forward when we are up against the likes of London and Toulouse.
It is early doors but I believe our current squad has the power and ability to go all the way this season.

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:46 pm  

PlayTheBall wrote:

I agree - the referee should have penalised York much more - he let them delay the ptb all game. York were also frequently offside and were allowed to get away with it.

PlayTheBall wrote:

the fact remains that we can only control our own penalty count and we have conceded 30 penalties in our 3 Championship games. In my opinion this number is far too high and puts us under unnecessary pressure.
I suggest that a reduced penalty count would result in less defending and leave us with even more energy for attack.

So York are allowed to get away with it,but we're not?

I'm not condoning foul play BTW.

Re: 21 Man squads v York : Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:15 pm  

Just had a chance to watch LCTV.
We were very good in attack and defence.
Josh Woods MOM for me. Had a big hand in most of our tries.
Reynolds also good and looks in fantastic shape. Also doing his fair share of strong tackling.
Sau very strong running and certainly here to be counted.
Wilde playing well and seemless when he comes on.
McNally played great up to the injury. Hope he is back after Friday. He makes a huge difference coming into the attacking line and is solid at the back.
Bienek running hard and will only keep getting better I feel.
Our whole back line looks dangerous ball in hand and defend well.
Our pack is very mobile and gain extra yards when in contact. Subs seem to make little to no difference to our team intensity.
Our halves are better at game management.
This was a good York side and we controlled the game in every aspect.
Very well done to every player and to our coaching staff