Joined: Aug 09 2011 Posts: 1906 Location: Deepest North Yorkshire Woodland
Seth wrote:Everyone pointing to the second half but I thought there were some worrying signs in the first where we conceded some line breaks off missed tackles and rode our luck with wigan just coming up short.
Correct, at the moment we are a deeply flawed side. Didn’t expect to win without Austin , several players certainly not up to top 4 play off standard. Biggest disappointment regarding Newman ,was French bumping him away to score . He is still a vey immature player it’s a challenge to the coaching staff to put him on the right path.
Give it a rest French has 4 years on newman who's spent a log time out injured, showing more nuts to come back from long term injury (twice) than the keyboard trojans calling him a wnker have. French also made a poor effort on newman in the first half.
The French try in the first have was down to positioning from Harry and the defence inside and outside him with them going backwards.
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Joined: Feb 27 2002 Posts: 5442 Location: Aberdeen
I think I prefer starting poor and finishing strong, instead of starting well and then dropping out of the game. Individual errors hurt both ways of playing though.
Wigan missed a lot of chances first half and we still let them back in the game easily. Our kicking game was basic and the forwards competed fairly well but our three-quarter line was rubbish. Tindall tried but isn't up to scratch, Olpherts looks like a mistake waiting to happen, MacDonald didn't really get involved for me, and that leaves one more who missed two tackles that led to tries and bombed the chance for a winning try.
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Seth wrote:Give it a rest French has 4 years on newman who's spent a log time out injured, showing more nuts to come back from long term injury (twice) than the keyboard trojans calling him a wnker have. French also made a poor effort on newman in the first half.
The French try in the first have was down to positioning from Harry and the defence inside and outside him with them going backwards.
Good call for the analysis on the first try Seth. Gannon didn’t look comfortable defending in that position, and it seemed to have a knock on effect on those around.
Backwoodsman wrote:Correct, at the moment we are a deeply flawed side. Didn’t expect to win without Austin , several players certainly not up to top 4 play off standard. Biggest disappointment regarding Newman ,was French bumping him away to score . He is still a vey immature player it’s a challenge to the coaching staff to put him on the right path.
Seen as Christopher isn't on here I'm going to lay it on the line players not up to standard Sezer,Fusitua, Lisone, Olpherts,Mcdonald, Austin I don't understand he's average then world beater when he wants,huge decisions to be made in recruitment let's hope Smith bring in some quality people.
Though Newman bombed the try the game was lost when we went away from being direct. How much time do we want to give the kickers? Hopefully tindal goes to hull fc and we have a receipt for olpherts. Big decisions needed on recruitment
Joined: Dec 19 2004 Posts: 24452 Location: in bed between halle berry and jennifer aniston
smith brought in 3 of them.... dress it up how you want. leaders, lack of quality whatever. a selfish player cost us a place in the next round. it all boils down to that. wish I'd been a fly on the wall in the changing room
Joined: Nov 19 2002 Posts: 13622 Location: West Yorkshire
RAPIDO wrote:Seen as Christopher isn't on here I'm going to lay it on the line players not up to standard Sezer,Fusitua, Lisone, Olpherts,Mcdonald, Austin I don't understand he's average then world beater when he wants,huge decisions to be made in recruitment let's hope Smith bring in some quality people.
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