Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:09 pm  

hull2524 wrote:
yea we kept leeds down to 52

How did Mr professional magic man play ? Maybe he rang up moon yesterday and told him your line up and tactics !

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:16 pm  

this team that has been cobbled together is as bad as its been for a long while ,halfbacks are very average , missed lunt and clark today, plus the centres ,at this stage nowhere near good enough for promotion to superleague, yet still winning , seems strange?

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:27 pm  

Horrible game in horrible weather today. We were very poor and well below par in all areas. So bad, I wouldn't attempt to rationalise it.

There was a clear man of the match today. Unfortunately, it wasn't any of the players. Referee Mikalauskas was the clear winner for all the wrong reasons. Today, he took his game of mindless decision making and inconsistent performance to whole new levels.

Fev played with greater passion and skill and deserved better. Their fans were loud but some were horrible, graceless and aggressive and consequently I am very pleased their team came up short. They booed when the man of the match stopped play for Donaldsons serious knee injury. Disgraceful.

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:35 pm  

Pickering Red wrote:

Horrible game in horrible weather today. We were very poor and well below par in all areas. So bad, I wouldn't attempt to rationalise it.

There was a clear man of the match today. Unfortunately, it wasn't any of the players. Referee Mikalauskas was the clear winner for all the wrong reasons. Today, he took his game of mindless decision making and inconsistent performance to whole new levels.

Fev played with greater passion and skill and deserved better. Their fans were loud but some were horrible, graceless and aggressive and consequently I am very pleased their team came up short. They booed when the man of the match stopped play for Donaldsons serious knee injury. Disgraceful.

Greater passion wasn't the issue. A shocking inability to complete sets, an awful kicking game and more injuries. Being dominated at the ruck didn't help either.
Ellis was awful. Again played off the park by his opposite number. Only positive is we defended pretty well. After scoring in the first minute of the second half we didn't complete a set for over 20 minutes.
They should have won but blew it.
Why didn't Lunt play?

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:37 pm  

rover 2000 wrote:

this team that has been cobbled together is as bad as its been for a long while ,halfbacks are very average , missed lunt and clark today, plus the centres ,at this stage nowhere near good enough for promotion to superleague, yet still winning , seems strange?

The thing is it's a bit of a scratch side with injuries and the 2 games in 4 days Lunt has been a different class but needed a rest and I thought Docker clay covered him pretty well Ellis was awful and doesn't really offer much it was a good hard fought win but we desperately need a kicking game

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:19 pm  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

Greater passion wasn't the issue. A shocking inability to complete sets, an awful kicking game and more injuries. Being dominated at the ruck didn't help either.
Ellis was awful. Again played off the park by his opposite number. Only positive is we defended pretty well. After scoring in the first minute of the second half we didn't complete a set for over 20 minutes.
They should have won but blew it.
Why didn't Lunt play?

Been in Hospital with a toe infection, which poisoned his system, according to TS

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:06 pm  

Thinking back to the team which got us promoted we seem a little lacking in leaders.with no lunt we missed the one real leader we have.the pack is ok without being anything above average..Half's are again average.keep harping on about cas but watching them today they play so fast and moors and lefao are unstoppable.even wakey in Fifita and Salford in murdoch have that raw power and size.we have props the size of 2nd rows.2nd rows the size of centres.Clark coming back should bring aggression but we need 2 or 3 more better quality players.id also like to see us more nasty as a team.far too nice and to get out of this league we will need far more aggressiveness. It's been a failing since Morgan left.result is all that matters but as we stand now I don't see us beating a superleague side..

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:44 am  

craig hkr wrote:

Thinking back to the team which got us promoted we seem a little lacking in leaders.with no lunt we missed the one real leader we have.the pack is ok without being anything above average..Half's are again average.keep harping on about cas but watching them today they play so fast and moors and lefao are unstoppable.even wakey in Fifita and Salford in murdoch have that raw power and size.we have props the size of 2nd rows.2nd rows the size of centres.Clark coming back should bring aggression but we need 2 or 3 more better quality players.id also like to see us more nasty as a team.far too nice and to get out of this league we will need far more aggressiveness. It's been a failing since Morgan left.result is all that matters but as we stand now I don't see us beating a superleague side..

Well said Craig got to agree we have been to nice for ages and we do need aggressive Props has soon has possible

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Sat Apr 15, 2017 8:22 am  

The things we are relearning again, is that in this league, hard tackling no compromise forwards teamed with a wily old half back, will produce results.
You may not when promotion, but a top 4 finish is attainable. But is that all we want ?
Do we need more ?

Leigh won promotion with a pack containing Hock, Hanson Moimoi, Tickle and Patterson teamed with Burns, Ridyard and Drinkwater.
This term I think only Drinkwater and Hock are playing regular in the first 17, that's a lot of player replacement and do we have that kind of financing available.

Developing young players who have super league potential seems to be our chosen option, so we may not win very battle along the way,but hopefully we can win the final challenge and get back to the top table.

In Sheens we trust (for now !!)

Re: 2 Tough Easter Fixtures : Sat Apr 15, 2017 8:37 am  

We got away with it yesterday because fev kicked the pens, had they backed themselves and gone for it I reckon they win that match.