Joined: Jul 15 2005 Posts: 29797 Location: West Yorkshire
pmarrow wrote:Lets be honest that 14 arent first teamers so lets not kid ourselves we are missing 14 first teamers. This team would have being good enough to beat a few teams lower leagues puts some confidence in the team and younger players too. To play a young team at Bradford was a waste.
Try reading my post. We went into this game with 9 first teamers out and it's now 10.
pmarrow wrote:Lets be honest that 14 arent first teamers so lets not kid ourselves we are missing 14 first teamers. This team would have being good enough to beat a few teams lower leagues puts some confidence in the team and younger players too. To play a young team at Bradford was a waste.
It doesn't matter that they're not all first teamers, for example with Shaul. Now Connor is injured, Shaul would be the man to replace him, and he is injured. Bowden isn't a first teamer, but he is next in line when any of our props get injured so is still a crucial loss. We end up with 3rd choice full back and 8th choice prop as our best options.
Joined: Jan 30 2004 Posts: 8185 Location: Never never land away with the fairies
Must admit I’m wondering about the pre season plan as not sure what purpose the games we’ve played are actually serving other than giving the young hopefuls a run. I know we have injuries but we are now going into the start of the season a first team that’s not exactly had any useful game time as a team unit, just seems to have been a bit rudderless.
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Joined: Jul 15 2005 Posts: 29797 Location: West Yorkshire
pmarrow wrote:Try reading mine. We should have gone for some fixtures to install confidence. Bizarre that we havent. We won 1 out of our last 10.
You cant tell me your really happy with this pre season.
Completely disagree. We have a squad of 30 odd and half are injured. Playing more fixtures with18 year olds against some part time clubs wouldn't help. I've already said the pre season has been a disaster. Manu Ma'u's injury sums that up.
Actually thought the young players had a good dig today, minutes 41-50 apart.
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