Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:11 pm  

Re: Squad v Eagles (Friday) : Wed Apr 27, 2022 11:37 pm  

Should be more than strong enough to get the job done.
Now it is time for even more steps on the road to a solid 80 minutes of quality.
No complaints from me so far
(I like the way Lam talks about the need to continually build and improve)

[Dick Jones]

Re: Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Thu Apr 28, 2022 5:51 pm  

Let’s rest anyone who not 100 per cent for the big one next week

Re: Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:45 pm  

Dick Jones wrote:

Let’s rest anyone who not 100 per cent for the big one next week

Intersting post, DJ, good evening. For Bongser the first one is the "big one" as we are still stalking Fev in the Champ. Whilst we would all rather Leigh win them both, it would be even more interesting to see what Derek has (if anything) said to Lam about this double header. The former (God bless his cotton socks) has again thrown a loada spondoolix at a promotion shove, but has also invested money in the AB Sundecks 1895 Cup and this party feels sure that he would rather his own side win it.

If we were only allowed to win one of these two, why not set up a straw poll as to which folks on here would rather it be?

Over to clever people to set up one of those votey thingies, it's 50% thus far.

[Dick Jones]

Re: Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Fri Apr 29, 2022 5:42 am  

Obviously both important games and I would be shocked if we lost either

Re: Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:16 pm  

Despite Mickey Mouse making up the reffing as he went along that was a good tester match.

Eagles are a well drilled side and with a few less handling errors they could have made given us a game, they had some good 10 minute spells.

Having said that we were good in attack and defence, never quite got to see how much defence Aekins can get through.

Thought Ipape and Roberts went well but a strong performance across the team.

Re: Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:32 pm  

Just landed back in Bent. Echo much of what Deeks has posted. Great practice for a Leigh defence that seems to be getting stouter match by match and especially with the ref repeatedly joining the Sheffield line from more angles than are on a Buckminsterfullerene. The North Stand were certainly questioning the arbiter's lineage after the Sheffield try, but Bongser will wait for footage before posting the words "well dodgy". Either way, 12 points shipped in four matches is pretty tight.

Love watching Ipape and wish to see more of him on the field.

Keanen was limping from around the 50th minute. Whilst he probably won't like it given today's news, he should be off duty next weekend. Not sure why Inu walked off. Roberts is a game lad but not a wing.

Highlight was an Inu conversion in the first half that seemed to hit both posts before dribbling over. Seen it in soccer a good few times but can't recall seeing it in RL. Conversions don't generally make "highlights", that one should!

Re: Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:17 pm  

I was at the game but must have been watching a different match.

I thought the game was disjointed and was poor. We were generally poor in attack, too much poor passing, not enough organisation in attack after each tackle and too many times players got the ball whilst standing still and too much indiscipline and too many dropped balls.

I expect so much more from this team than they have so far delivered this season but perhaps that is a good thing because there is so much quality in the team and scope for getting better.

The ref was poor and was bullied by Farrell, who I think was their captain, and gave in to his all too frequent appeals for decisions to go in Sheffield's favour. All credit to him (Farrell), but it all added to a disjointed feel to the game. It was too much stop start.

Having said all this, we again won comfortably against decent, but not overly challenging opposition and we won again with only two proper props in the team and with a lot of quality players sitting injured in the stands.

By the way, Big Ben Nakubuwai is already here and was at the game. At least i think it was him. If it isn't then i think we have another large South Sea islander signing to announce! Big Ben was sitting with the rest of the non-playing squad in the main stand and he also did the duties for the half time draw - missed i might add by the public announcer. If it is him then he now has a beard which was not evident in the clearly out of date signing-on publicity photos.

Despite the average performance tonight i am optimistic that with a competent referee next week and with a much stronger team to put out - hopefully including Joe Mellor, who for my money was badly missed tonight - that we will put over 50 points on this same opposition. There is a really good performance coming from this team at some point and when it happens we are really going to take an opposing team to the cleaners. It didn't happen tonight though

Re: Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:17 am  

Penalty count 12-6 to the Eagles. Scrappy horrible game, missing Mellor and McDonald. Scored some good tries and delighted to see Ipape scooting round the field.
This was a game to forget, but next week should be a steamroller.

Re: Squads v Eagles (Friday) : Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:56 am  

I'll confirm that from where I was sitting that I'm positive it was Ben Nakubuwai who made the half-time draw but I expect Clive hasn't quite worked out how to say his same yet (same here), or maybe he just wanted to be anonymous until he plays.