Re: Fev game thoughts : Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:01 pm  

We are in the same position we are always in,whole sale changes in the close season no continuity not much time to gel.Thought we got beat by a better team who wanted it more and played the conditions,as for Ben we have had him on and off for quite a few years full time,I don't see any improvement in him,he doesn't seem to be able to focus for 80mins and cannot lead us round the park.Dont get me wrong he does try and puts the effort in and a fearless tackler but in my opinion he's not the play maker to take us forward. Opposition fans warned us about Dixon and he didn't disappoint Hopefully Lammy and Chester can get a few more player in

Re: Fev game thoughts : Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:38 pm  

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Re: Fev game thoughts : Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:39 pm  

J7P1 wrote:

Fev are part time and yet the evidence is that they have assembled a squad good enough to beat us 28 - 6 with two of their biggest forwards missing. We have warned on this board for months that the squad lacks numbers. We have undoubted quality in our better players. Now we find that the depth of quality in the squad beyond those better players is insufficient, even though they are full time. If we are to take dual reg or loan players then they need to be of sufficient quality. I can’t understand how a part time team can win so comfortably against a carefully assembled (at great expense) full time squad.

Appears to me that Fev are a mix of part & full time but mainly Full Time players. Leilua, Chisholme, Hall, Cuthbertson, Moors, Briscoe & the new Aussie Half on his way plus others all Full Time.

Fevs Ex Leigh players all seemed to play well against us & as a team wanted it more than us.

I've said it before & I will say it again, I backed Ben to come good the first few years but the last few has shown he isn't Super League standard & SL standard is what we need to get there, he just doesn't have the vision or off the cuff play & his kicking game is garbage. I also can't get my head around that brain fart late shoulder on a tackled & grounded Fev player.

I felt sorry for Dixon because you could tell he was really working hard but the errors ruined him, maybe trying to hard.

Hopefully talks are ongoing & lead to some good player's coming in.
In the pre match interview Lam sounded like he wasn't really happy with Mellor & Reynolds but chose his words carefully. Maybe Lam & Chester can apply some influence to go out & get a classy 6. Gelling would also be a bonus at centre.

Green out with suspected broken arm in the 2nd game already which highlights the vulnerability of a thin squad.

Having said all of that I am reasonably confident it will all come good & Leigh can do the business.

Re: Fev game thoughts : Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:18 am  

We all know are squad is too small, apart from DB.

Re: Fev game thoughts : Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:59 pm  

Brand is a squad player at best, its no coincidence Warrington have released him after his performance against them in SL. Having him and Nisbett on one edge is asking for trouble.

We have spent all this money on players again and then have a loanee at hooker and wing.

We were exposed at the weekend by a club that has chosen the right players to get the job done. Id rather play the big lad Roberts who spent all last year in the Championship getting great reviews.

Re: Fev game thoughts : Wed Feb 09, 2022 2:59 pm  

Binosh wrote:

Brand is a squad player at best, its no coincidence Warrington have released him after his performance against them in SL. Having him and Nisbett on one edge is asking for trouble.

We have spent all this money on players again and then have a loanee at hooker and wing.

We were exposed at the weekend by a club that has chosen the right players to get the job done. Id rather play the big lad Roberts who spent all last year in the Championship getting great reviews.

Agreed. For me, I thought last years squad just needed tweaking a bit, but no, we seem to want to cull the squad again, and then we end up starting with a small squad. Our next 5 matches could turn out to be tough, and anymore injuries, and we could well end up in the brown stuff. Let's hope and pray we can get through it.

Re: Fev game thoughts : Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:51 pm  

Cokey wrote:

Agreed. For me, I thought last years squad just needed tweaking a bit, but no, we seem to want to cull the squad again, and then we end up starting with a small squad. Our next 5 matches could turn out to be tough, and anymore injuries, and we could well end up in the brown stuff. Let's hope and pray we can get through it.

Derek , we can’t say how many of last seasons squad wanted to go and how many wanted to stay , in reality the ones who left on their own accord I would have let go anyway , and kept maybe Hood , Brierley , Bell, and Thorniley , but they didn’t want to stay , I m sure Derek B and Chester as well as Lammy know they need to sign players , but at the moment nobody is available , we have lost our hardest game of the season , let’s get worried if Bradford , York , and Widnes beat us , get Hitchcox fit , Ipape arriving , Sidlow back , we will be ok .

Re: Fev game thoughts : Wed Feb 09, 2022 5:09 pm  

The Charlie Caroli wrote:

Derek , we can’t say how many of last seasons squad wanted to go and how many wanted to stay , in reality the ones who left on their own accord I would have let go anyway , and kept maybe Hood , Brierley , Bell, and Thorniley , but they didn’t want to stay , I m sure Derek B and Chester as well as Lammy know they need to sign players , but at the moment nobody is available , we have lost our hardest game of the season , let’s get worried if Bradford , York , and Widnes beat us , get Hitchcox fit , Ipape arriving , Sidlow back , we will be ok .

Quite simply put.

Though being beaten away at each of these said teams would make for a more interesting season.

Fev were and are favourites for the top spot, it might have been different if we hadn't done SL a favour and gone and got the promotion but we are where we are.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water; Monday's game highlighted things that need sorting, good, get it out of the way early. Two games in and we are still finding out how this season will shuffle out given some other results already. This next game week promises to be quite revealing.

Re: Fev game thoughts : Wed Feb 09, 2022 5:33 pm  

The Charlie Caroli wrote:

Derek , we can’t say how many of last seasons squad wanted to go and how many wanted to stay , in reality the ones who left on their own accord I would have let go anyway , and kept maybe Hood , Brierley , Bell, and Thorniley , but they didn’t want to stay , I m sure Derek B and Chester as well as Lammy know they need to sign players , but at the moment nobody is available , we have lost our hardest game of the season , let’s get worried if Bradford , York , and Widnes beat us , get Hitchcox fit , Ipape arriving , Sidlow back , we will be ok .

Ian, I get what you're saying but, we are a little fragile,and just feel when players do finally come in they have to gel. I'm also not comfortable with our spine, and if we do pick up any injuries, the pressure will be on. After everything Iv'e said in all my posts on this, I sincerely hope i'm wrong.

Re: Fev game thoughts : Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:48 pm  

Cokey wrote:

Ian, I get what you're saying but, we are a little fragile,and just feel when players do finally come in they have to gel. I'm also not comfortable with our spine, and if we do pick up any injuries, the pressure will be on. After everything Iv'e said in all my posts on this, I sincerely hope i'm wrong.

Put those players on the LSV pitch.. That pitch was a disgrace to the sport.Played nowt on it with Covid and still a bog.