Rupert Pupkin wrote:Got to say though I was very un-impressed with Rovers as a team last night, Leeds were there for the beating!
Our passing along the attacking line was abysmal at times, the ball should be passed so that the receiver is running onto the ball(this is kids stuff), not thrown behind his back or into touch(on a few occasions). It was really poor to watch at times, we didnt seem to have many creative options in our opponents 20m/30m.
We coughed the ball up on the 1st/2nd/3rd to many times in very good field position, our ball retention based on the last two weeks is no where near good enough! Plus some very poor options from the base of the scrums.
Once again our go-forward was poor IMO, the POTB was far to slow and gave the Leeds pack all the time in the world to get organised, no wonder we found it so hard to break them down.
To be fair we have come up against probably the two best packs of forwards in SL, sshame we have come off second best on both occasions.
One more small point, I know alot of people who used to criticize the choice of letting Webster kick into touch from a penalty(never made more than 20m). We made huge strides in going forward when this job was handed to Cooke, now we have given the job to Dobson who is doing ok but I dont think we are taking advantage of these penalties as we could be. If Cooke is on the pitch, let him take them!
So in a topic titled 'Match thoughts', the only comments you could muster on our second game of the season are ALL negatives?
Granted I was disappointed with some of the players' performances aswel, but just because we've beaten Leeds in the past doesn't mean to say we'll do it every year. They WERE there for the taking last night i agree but do you think Leeds would be pleased with their performance last night either?
to say the game could have been anyones until the 74th minute against the world club champions isn't bad going in my opinion. and as for Alex Mc saying fisher can't do 80 is joke! he's an 80 minute hooker, he's one of the fittest players at the club! why do we need to rotate hookers? cos saints and leeds do it?
I think we all need to take a look at the bigger picture here. We're gunna be in the chasing pack between 5th and 9th. It's just down to taking our chances when we get them. We had ample oppertunites to score last night. We just didnt take them. We WILL in the future. Simples!
