From the first break Solomona made after 3 minutes the writing was on the wall. We looked flat and devoid of any ideas. You could see that one team was backing up after a draining semi final and another having two weeks off. Credit to Cas they exploited that and kept the ball alive at will.
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Dave K. wrote:Radford needs to decide his 6 and stick with it for the next two games and build up some momentum, for me it has to be Carlos
Pretty sure it would have been Carlos tonight but for injuries.
In fairness to Radford he's trying to give Abdull a chance to impress rather than use Pryce who doesn't feature in our future plans. Sadly that isn't working out so well.
Hold on to me baby, his bony hands will do you no harm It said in the cards, we lost our souls to the Nameless One
Poor tonight but entirely predictable. We were always going to suffer a comedown after the emotions of winning the semi final and Cas are exactly the sort of side you didn't want to be playing. They were very good tonight.
Still, we have got a poor performance out of our system and hopefully we will bounce back next week. Still top for another week at least.
Dave K. wrote:Has he, I can't remember Thompson having one great game all year, Hadley is a better defender and safer with the ball, TBF neither would be in my first choice 17.
Yeh, hes been good everygame hes played this season apart from tonight, hadley aint, hence hadley doesnt get picked in front of him. He might next week after tonight, which is fair enough. Think people forget, thompson is still only 24, playing along side the best 2nd rowers in super league, he can only get better imo
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Tinkerman23 wrote:Granted he was poor tonight, but hes been better than hadley all season imo, and been good up until tonight, hadley offers very little going forward where as thompson usually splits defences, hes got good speed and footwork, which hadley doesnt offer
Last season I'd have agreed with you. This season Thompson has been disappointing, especially in the last few weeks.
Hold on to me baby, his bony hands will do you no harm It said in the cards, we lost our souls to the Nameless One
Kosh wrote:Carlos was offside at the kick and within 10m of the Cas player who tried to catch it.
Ah fair enough. Shame as that was a 12 point turn around. Small margins and all that. The whole within 10m of the catcher thing annoys me sometimes. Carlos didn't really seem to be interfering with the player catching the ball. I do wonder how you are supposed to score from those occasionally and I understand why usually teams won't contest the ball and just hammer the catching player, there seem to be a thousand things stopping you scoring.
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Kosh wrote:Pretty sure it would have been Carlos tonight but for injuries.
In fairness to Radford he's trying to give Abdull a chance to impress rather than use Pryce who doesn't feature in our future plans. Sadly that isn't working out so well.
It's a fair point, but no matter what now it has to to Carlos and Sneyd in the halfs.
I thought Abdul showed some good touches on the last 20, but boy does he need to get fit, his effort on Dorn was terrible, although there were plenty of others whose tacking was poor.
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