Heroic : Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:46 am  

Site was down for a while, so I'll start it off now we are back.

I thought the effort yesterday was heroic. No half-backs, no hooker (I missed Drew going off, as I was still queuing outside due to the admirable HKR organisation), but yet they made a real good fist of it. We were always up against it, but I don't think anyone should complain about the team from yesterday.

Having said that, the only negative for me was Tony Martin's lack of punch early on when attacking. There were at least two occasions early on when we were attacking the line and a well-timed pass would have put someone in. Instead, he went for the grubber, and each time it went to nothing. Briscoe is too good to miss those. When he did pass it, Hendo went in.

But Martin is a centre, not a playmaker, and so I accept that maybe he was playing it cautious.

The main negative was HKR's abysmal treatment of away fans. Sell people twenty quid tickets and then pack the away end with home fans so they have to go into the £10 end. Oh yes, and only let the home fans into the turnstile that serves the away end, make all the away fans stand at just one turnstile, and then send them down to the other end when the game is five minutes old.

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:32 am  

I was very proud of the lads yesterday, going to Craven Park and trying to win win your best team is quite hard but to do it with a patched up team and to also lose a key player in the warm up and then another 2 minutes into the game takes a miracle.

Our Halves contained Demetriou, Martin & Blake (Interchange Davey). Halley was playing injured, Snitch didn't look to good in the second halve and we still managed a gutsy display and made a good fist of it.

Yesterday the lads did the club proud and can take alot of positive away from the game even in defeat

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:41 am  

Trinity Till Death wrote:

I was very proud of the lads yesterday, going to Craven Park and trying to win win your best team is quite hard but to do it with a patched up team and to also lose a key player in the warm up and then another 2 minutes into the game takes a miracle.

Our Halves contained Demetriou, Martin & Blake (Interchange Davey). Halley was playing injured, Snitch didn't look to good in the second halve and we still managed a gutsy display and made a good fist of it.

Yesterday the lads did the club proud and can take alot of positive away from the game even in defeat

Agreed, considering that we played 79 minutes without a recognised first team half or hooker having lost one of our centres before K.O, and played with three fit players on the bench, that was a monumental effort. Had we had a bit more composure when we got back to 30-18 I think we might have taken them, as it was three sets on the trot when we dropped the ball early on knocked the belief out of us I think.

It all bodes well for the rest of the season if we can get some playmakers back and keep them fit and healthy, as for HKR, if that's the best they've got against a make shift team like we put out then they've got nothing to come this season.

Heroic. : Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:46 am  

Could not fault the effort from any player yesterday, I thought Bibb played his best game for us so far,and Dale Ferguson was outstanding and will get my vote for MOM. Don`t know what`s Hendo`s on but it`s working.

Also heroic turnout from the fans, maybe I`m being over-optimistic but I would put our support up around the 2k mark?

Special praise for the 2 part-timers thrown in at the deep end, both worked a full week, including Saturday for Luke Blake, while James Davey had just 1 training session with the squad.Great promose shown by both lads, take a bow boys.

Re: Heroic. : Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:48 am  

semitone wrote:

Could not fault the effort from any player yesterday, I thought Bibb played his best game for us so far,and Dale Ferguson was outstanding and will get my vote for MOM. Don`t know what`s Hendo`s on but it`s working.

Also heroic turnout from the fans, maybe I`m being over-optimistic but I would put our support up around the 2k mark?

Special praise for the 2 part-timers thrown in at the deep end, both worked a full week, including Saturday for Luke Blake, while James Davey had just 1 training session with the squad.Great promose shown by both lads, take a bow boys.

61 Tackles!!!!!

Re: Heroic. : Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:01 am  

TRB wrote:

61 Tackles!!!!!

jesus, i think is the most i have ever seen if it is correct. Think most i have seen was 50-odd by Hindmarsh in a SOO match a couple of years ago

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:04 am  

Catnap wrote:

Agreed, considering that we played 79 minutes without a recognised first team half or hooker having lost one of our centres before K.O, and played with three fit players on the bench, that was a monumental effort. Had we had a bit more composure when we got back to 30-18 I think we might have taken them, as it was three sets on the trot when we dropped the ball early on knocked the belief out of us I think.

It all bodes well for the rest of the season if we can get some playmakers back and keep them fit and healthy, as for HKR, if that's the best they've got against a make shift team like we put out then they've got nothing to come this season.

just a few points would like to make, i disagree with your statement about if thats best HKR can do against a makeshift side. I personnaly believe what has happened at Wakey during preseason & with injuries i think in a certain way has pulled the team so close together that the team spirit IMO is 2nd to none at the moment, and that is raising the teams game to above there level. i also believe that had drew stayed on the pitch rovers would have played different (i tihin you play better against good players). as for the away support i thought it was ok reckon about 300-400 cant really ask more for that. do get suprised sometimes at the crictism of the Golf Stand when most away stands are just terraced without any covers aswell. i also think if you were to expect 8 seats in a row is abit to much and you should of got in a hour before kick off, we have to do that in the east stand and its bloody standing. finally as for the rovers fans constant "your away support is crap compared to ours" it is boring the only thing i will say is being in super league is a novelty for us once the novelty has gone it will die down.

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:06 am  

61 Tackles is an immense effort and if it's true i hope he gets some sort of recognition from the wider rugby league community!

Thats as impressive if not more so than someone scoring a hat-trick!

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:11 am  

HOMER2355 wrote:

just a few points would like to make, i disagree with your statement about if thats best HKR can do against a makeshift side. I personnaly believe what has happened at Wakey during preseason & with injuries i think in a certain way has pulled the team so close together that the team spirit IMO is 2nd to none at the moment, and that is raising the teams game to above there level. i also believe that had drew stayed on the pitch rovers would have played different (i tihin you play better against good players). as for the away support i thought it was ok reckon about 300-400 cant really ask more for that. do get suprised sometimes at the crictism of the Golf Stand when most away stands are just terraced without any covers aswell. i also think if you were to expect 8 seats in a row is abit to much and you should of got in a hour before kick off, we have to do that in the east stand and its bloody standing. finally as for the rovers fans constant "your away support is crap compared to ours" it is boring the only thing i will say is being in super league is a novelty for us once the novelty has gone it will die down.

But your game plan was to take Drew out knowing that we had no more play makers, and that comes from one of your starting players.

: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:14 am  

said that on way home no one could criticise there effort thats all anyone can ask i was as proud of them yesterday as ive ever been , we had no one left a winger on one leg yet we still come back fighting as kear said last year we would have crumbled yet a team with no strength in depth according too the experts without 8 starting line up players gave hull kr a game PROUD AS PUNCH