Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12668 Location: Leicestershire.
pmh wrote:Got exactly what we deserved, errors, indiscipline and coughing the ball up equals losing the game.
I'm not going to single anyone out (at the moment, might do later!) as a few people had terrible games but what's most disappointing for me was after awful performances against Wigan and Huddersfield we looked to be getting on track last week. We then serve up the worst forty minutes of the season.
Credit has to go to Wakefield. They hardly made any mistakes had a very efficient game plan that the whole team stuck to and in Tronc and Brough had the two best players. Seriously, how many times did we have to start sets from our own ten metre line? Brough murdered us, bisecting the winger and full back, kicking on the fourth tackle from second receiver and even getting the ball from acting half and hammering it down field. Excellent stuff, if I'd have been watching him do it against any other team!
Referee had a decent game, hopefully he'll continue to develop.
It was a collective failure, with nearly everybody contributing. Briscoe (of all people) has his own thread, Colbon's knock-on, 2 from Cockayne, Fox's too (although the game was over as a contest by then), Webster gobbing of, Dobson's kicks dead in goal, harmless kicks when a bomb was needed to take the concept of patiently building pressure to an absurd extreme. The forwards were more solid without looking especially dangerous. Watts' penalty showed a serious lack of nouse - Childs lets a fair amount go at the ruck (not to the point of being silly and was consistent for both sides, which is the main thing), but why take the pee, especially on the fifth?
The video ref call was irrelevant to me - we were gone by then. I'd rather have it a game where it doesn't decide the result.
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Joined: Sep 06 2005 Posts: 3169 Location: EAST HULL
MrPhilb wrote:We grounded the ball they didn't but like you say there is no issue
Grounded the ball ??? You are joking right ??
Or maybe "grounding the ball" is throwing it up in the air, letting it touch terrafirma (making it a knock-on) and then wildly and randomly throwing your arms around before pucnching the ground in sheer frustration.
Oh yes, I see what you mean !!
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I also noticed how poor your drop outs were. The got to your 30 metre on tackle 1 every time. Yet when they dropped out you only just crossed halfway.
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BESTY wrote:I also noticed how poor your drop outs were. The got to your 30 metre on tackle 1 every time. Yet when they dropped out you only just crossed halfway.
We must be the worst in the league at those and always seem to have been, dobson and Cooke don't seem to get any distance and even when webbo was here he was worse, surely a bit of practice wouldn't go a miss.
Joined: Mar 05 2007 Posts: 13190 Location: Hedon (sometimes), sometimes Premier Inn's
Mild Rover wrote::shock: 18-6 up, wind at our backs, Wakefield with a man in the bin. 35 minutes in and Rovers have managed to do 1 good thing - Dobson's 40-20. Webster then shouts abuse at the ref on the first tackle from the scrum.
Oh well, only Leeds next week.
Unprofessional, but you could see why, the Wakey players were preventing him from playing the ball untill they all got back on side and the ref ignored it. The same ref that in the first half nailed us for the same.
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barham red wrote:We must be the worst in the league at those and always seem to have been, dobson and Cooke don't seem to get any distance and even when webbo was here he was worse, surely a bit of practice wouldn't go a miss.
Cooke's are good, but he rarely got the chance. It took him long enough to convince JM to let him kick to touch again, after the privilege was bizarrely given to Dobson when he arrived. Dobson has a good kicking game but his drop outs definitely aren't great.
Joined: Mar 05 2007 Posts: 13190 Location: Hedon (sometimes), sometimes Premier Inn's
BESTY wrote:I also noticed how poor your drop outs were. The got to your 30 metre on tackle 1 every time. Yet when they dropped out you only just crossed halfway.
Same as our penalty kicks to touch, we get about 10 yards, leaving a lot of drives to make the ground up, when a good 'hoof' would save a lot of unecassary work from the players.
My wife has a season ticket for the first time, so including last night she has seen Rovers around 6 times, she commented on how 'predictable' we are and how the opposition seem to vary their game plan, compared to us. I told her she was talking crap, we do vary our plays, sometimes we have four drives then a rubbish kick
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