Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:55 pm  

I know someone else has commented on penalties, but I have to say I didn't see too many poor decisions - by the referee. We easiuly outclassed Wakey and yet were happy to give away needless penalties. Not good.

That said, overall, a good team performance. Briggs looks a very useful player to me - and welcome back Dorny!

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:12 pm  

TaRL PaRL wrote:

Noticed Calderwood was not in the 19 announced but played. Does this mean that Kouparitsas, Riley, and Temata who were in the 19 but did not play are all injured/unavailable?

Kouparitsas and Temata were sat in the wings of the west stand in training gear so I assume they were available but not chosen... for whatever reason. DSWG wondered if Pryce had gone back to Wigan. He was sat behind the players bench, having a pretend fight with Lamont - both in civvies so had not been considered for the Wakey game... for whatever reason.

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:26 am  

joeo wrote:

Kouparitsas and Temata were sat in the wings of the west stand in training gear so I assume they were available but not chosen... for whatever reason. DSWG wondered if Pryce had gone back to Wigan. He was sat behind the players bench, having a pretend fight with Lamont - both in civvies so had not been considered for the Wakey game... for whatever reason.

Both Monty and Karl seemed to enjoy burger and chips - athletes food!

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:38 am  

Thought Dorny was injured at the end of the game..

Rob Thomas was really good! Just kept running at them - didn't stop, great performance!!

Jamie O has improved no end, good jinking runs!

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:22 am  

Jeff in Devizes wrote:

I know someone else has commented on penalties, but I have to say I didn't see too many poor decisions - by the referee. We easiuly outclassed Wakey and yet were happy to give away needless penalties. Not good.

That said, overall, a good team performance. Briggs looks a very useful player to me - and welcome back Dorny!

Don't know if the ref's decisions were poor its just that they seemed a bit odd!

Thought Briggs was good in the first half, didn't see as much from him in the 2nd - and I just hope to God that Dorny's injury is healed for next week. He was holding his side following a tackle late in the 1st half and all the way through the 2nd.

I've often cricisized him but I thought that Jamie O'C was excellent on Saturday, best I've seen him in ages!!

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:27 am  

quinny wrote:

Was I at the same game yesterday ? Briggs ?? He was anonymous for the majority of the game did not see anything from him to warrant a mention ?? Gale played far better, and why oh why wakefield didnt target him in attack is beyond me.

Londo06 understands what I mean, it was not that Briggs was somehow outstanding, and I agree that Gale played better; the point is we had two genuine halfbacks on the field and that makes such a difference at this level. Playing one halfback and a hooker pretending is just not good enough at this level, especially as that hooker is solid rather than spectacular. Sometimes you just need a better balance and that's why Briggs was the key, not because he was spectacular, the team had a better balance.

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:43 am  

Kelvin's Ferret wrote:

Briggs was the key, not because he was spectacular, the team had a better balance.

It is a bit like Danny Orr, you really missed him when he was not playing, and we have missed an organising, controlling scum half all season. Gale will play with more freedom with Briggs on board they were the Donny half back partnership and know each others game. You can't expect too much from a young guy who has only been in town a few days. We need a tactical organiser who runs the team round the pitch, we have players who can do the fancy stuff. I think we did well on Saturday against a bigger pack without Temata. HKR should be a step up but if Dorny is fit we can at least give them a game. If JOC is an answer to one of the centre problems then we have a hope of (a) not finishing bottom and (b) getting a couple of wins and finishing on a stronger note. Encouraging.

[brian2]

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:21 am  

Agree with almost everything said on here:

Gale excellent
Briggs - did OK and contributed to a tray, also his kicks for touch seemed good
Temata, if he was fit we needed him on bench
Pryce - i hope he hasnt left, despite everything he can contribute
Calderwood - good to see him play and i thought he played well, though not MOTM
Riley - not really impressed, so no great loss
J O'C - excellent game
Dorn - he adds so much

Seems when we play with that level of intensity things go much better, can we do the same on saturday? Hope so

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:07 pm  

Jeff in Devizes wrote:

I know someone else has commented on penalties, but I have to say I didn't see too many poor decisions - by the referee. We easiuly outclassed Wakey and yet were happy to give away needless penalties. Not good.

Agree. I thought the ref had a good enough game, in fact I hardly noticed him. I don't want to be too negative when we essentially played well; worst case scenario at half time was that if Wakey got the first try of the second half we might crumble under the psychological pressure of not having won for months, but when we kept it tight and got the next try it was game over.

Some of the penalties we gave away were just annoying though. Silly, blatant fouls on the fifth tackle. What's the point? Wakey were able to get some cheap points as a result of these offences. This really illustrated to me how teams can build pressure by capitalising on opponents' indiscipline. On several occasions they were able to march 20-30 yards upfield and start a new set when they were on the verge of having to turn over possession in their own half. Our attacking play and finishing was good, we took our chances and couldn't really have been expected to score many more points, and for the most part we defended well when we had to, but towards the end our indiscipline simply gave Wakey too many opportunities to put us under pressure. When you look at last week's result at Hull - 38-6 - we should have been looking to limit Wakey to just one score as Hull did to us, not the four they eventually got. I hope the coaches will go through this with our players and spell it out to them the need for better discipline, because in a close game it's going to cost us dearly if repeated.

On the whole though, and enjoyable performance and a big "well done" to everyone involved.

[Wildthing]

Re: v WAKEFIELD (H) : Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:11 am  

Despite the result I had a great day.

The staff were all really friendly and the facilites are great.
I wish the people of London would get down to the Stoop as there is a great product
on offer.

Congrats on the win and all the best for the rest of the season.