Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 26010 Location: Back in Hull.
brearley84 wrote:Pleased you got to see the real Giants lastnight after catching us under done for the first game of the season.... sweet revenge too seeing as your club played a part in that pulling out late in the day
What are you talking about? We never had a friendly planned with you did we?
The club can take the blame with a lot of things, but blaming us for your poor preparation is just plain stupid.
Joined: Apr 27 2007 Posts: 8157 Location: Back in Hull
brearley84 wrote:Pleased you got to see the real Giants lastnight after catching us under done for the first game of the season.... sweet revenge too seeing as your club played a part in that pulling out late in the day
The friendly you had was against Bradford, not sure why it was our fault it never went ahead?
Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 26010 Location: Back in Hull.
Once again we have more possession and get beat comfy.
Thought Watts and Paea were excellent and Shaul our only player who looked like scoring
Radfords use of subs is just terrible and worst I have seen from any Hull coach.
The backrow play too many minutes and then start making mistakes, Sa and Thompson played 80 minutes, Mini 60 without a break, this is why they start dropping off tackles and and making mistakes, they need to be spelled, having Howarth (who is so average) come on for a token last 20 minutes when you could have Abdul or Turgut on teh bench to cover the backrow.
So we have two hookers on the bench, so what does Radford do, he still plays Houghton for 50 minutes without a break, Cunningham comes on for about 3 minutes first half for a blood bin then gets subbed, that would have been a time to take Houghton off.
To bring Yeaman back in who offers nothing, except making errors and the odd 5 metres drive at the expense of Naughton who has impressed me sums up what lots think about Radford having favorites.
Micheals is so average I can't believe that we have him as a quota player, there are better backs in the championship.
Why not have Rankin on the Bench instead of Howarth, with Sneyds first game back and Pryce (who wasn't fully fit) carrying an injury.
I expect us to beat Salford in close boring game and then contiune to pick up the odd win at home, but come at least 4 points off the top 8 in 10th or 11th place.
Pearson was sat near me and didn't look happen although the game, he must see what we see and see how many people were left in the group at the end.
I'll be at the Salford game only because I have a pass (No chance of me getting one next year if we don't have a decent coach and start playing some rugby), but expect the crowd to be about 8k.
Not sure about the Cas game yet, but expect less than 6K for the game.
Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 26010 Location: Back in Hull.
One more thing, not sure why the poster (Who didn't even go) was calling Mini average, thought he had a good game, but as said above plays too many minutes, he should be doing 30 minutes and then talking a break, then coming back on for the last 30 minutes.
Last night he made 35 tackles, 1 miss, 120 metres from 17 drives (AG 7.06), 6 tackle busts and 2 offloads (Which is good for us). Errors and Penalties were a bit disappointing, but that in mainly down him playing too many minutes in one spell.
Dave K. wrote:Once again we have more possession and get beat comfy.
Thought Watts and Paea were excellent and Shaul our only player who looked like scoring
Radfords use of subs is just terrible and worst I have seen from any Hull coach.
The backrow play too many minutes and then start making mistakes, Sa and Thompson played 80 minutes, Mini 60 without a break, this is why they start dropping off tackles and and making mistakes, they need to be spelled, having Howarth (who is so average) come on for a token last 20 minutes when you could have Abdul or Turgut on teh bench to cover the backrow.
So we have two hookers on the bench, so what does Radford do, he still plays Houghton for 50 minutes without a break, Cunningham comes on for about 3 minutes first half for a blood bin then gets subbed, that would have been a time to take Houghton off.
To bring Yeaman back in who offers nothing, except making errors and the odd 5 metres drive at the expense of Naughton who has impressed me sums up what lots think about Radford having favorites.
Micheals is so average I can't believe that we have him as a quota player, there are better backs in the championship.
Why not have Rankin on the Bench instead of Howarth, with Sneyds first game back and Pryce (who wasn't fully fit) carrying an injury.
I expect us to beat Salford in close boring game and then contiune to pick up the odd win at home, but come at least 4 points off the top 8 in 10th or 11th place.
Pearson was sat near me and didn't look happen although the game, he must see what we see and see how many people were left in the group at the end.
I'll be at the Salford game only because I have a pass (No chance of me getting one next year if we don't have a decent coach and start playing some rugby), but expect the crowd to be about 8k.
Not sure about the Cas game yet, but expect less than 6K for the game.
Low crowds are the only way that AP will act IMO.
Watts best game for a while . Mini was good in bits & Paea was solid as ever .
The substitute decision that baffles me is the use of Howarth. Leaving aside how good he is (or isn't) for a moment what are they really expecting from someone being held back to the last quarter? When it was obvious Bowden wasn't going to take any further part in the game surely adjustments were needed in the planned use of the bench to distribute the workload better, or is our coach incapable of acting on the fly when the situation changes? As it was it took big efforts from Paea and Watts in particular to cover up this odd decision and prevent a total fiasco, not that it wasn't close to one. Still the use of Howarth on the bench at the moment is the most mystifying since the time of Will Sharp's spell there.
Dave K. wrote:What are you talking about? We never had a friendly planned with you did we?
The club can take the blame with a lot of things, but blaming us for your poor preparation is just plain stupid.
We had a friendly organised two weeks before the start of the season with FC when the fixture list came out in November and you saw you had us first game of season you backed out. HTH
jools wrote:We had a friendly organised two weeks before the start of the season with FC when the fixture list came out in November and you saw you had us first game of season you backed out. HTH
We announced our pre-season schedule in October. HTH.
jools wrote:We had a friendly organised two weeks before the start of the season with FC when the fixture list came out in November and you saw you had us first game of season you backed out. HTH
We announced our pre-season schedule in October. HTH.
jools wrote:We had a friendly organised two weeks before the start of the season with FC when the fixture list came out in November and you saw you had us first game of season you backed out. HTH
So you had two months to re-arrange another fixture. Not our problem your club never acted on it quicker
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