Last season our back row played the full 80, this season they won't so that's more interchanges aswell. We really our props to do more minutes. Looking at the list of players the dragons had out shows what great depth there squad has got, and the real lack of depth ours has unfortunatly.
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our coach sandy said on tel text that their 2nd try was a knock on he said he saw it from the TV stream and he said again all matches should have a video ref but it might have been worse
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Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
Mrs Barista wrote:Is your conditioning an issue? When Rovers present "High Performance Manager" was at FC he presided over the 2008 and 2009 injury crises which some on here suggested were to do with inadequate rehab/massage etc. Rovers seem to be hugely competitive in the first 60 but are rolled over in the last quarter, perhaps down to stamina and fitness training (or poor rotation).
As Mild Rover says, you've had the toughest of starts. And it appears accepted on here now that injuries do compromise a team's ability to perform after all.
The ridiculous sub plot undermines any serious point that you (are not) try to make.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
For me there seem to be a few too many Morgan ideas hanging around, possibly through Chester?
Josh Hodgson has the makings of a first class player but we're still playing him all over the park. Hooker is far too much of an important and difficult position to play to basically be doing a bit of it now and again and then messing about somewhere else, particularly at this stage of his career.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12672 Location: Leicestershire.
Mrs Barista wrote:And it appears accepted on here now that injuries do compromise a team's ability to perform after all.
Something I made a point of acknowledging in anticipation of our inevitably having a rough run at some point. I mention (un)availability of players only to indicate that we shouldn't panic. In terms of our rivalry with Hull FC, if you finish above us it'll be because you were the better team over 27 rounds. For its own selfish sake, a club has to be honest with itself. We shouldn't be blinded by what we want to believe. At the moment I see mitigation for our mediocrity, but we are pretty average right now, irrespective of whether Hull are on the up (and early signs look moderately promising for you from the little I've seen) or not. We're not one of the top teams and wouldn't be even with a full squad available. IMO, if we're patient things could well get better... up to a point. Without cash available for transfer fees and to stretch the cap 6th - 10th is par. SL, innit? Not meant to be easy.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12672 Location: Leicestershire.
dum-dum wrote:It's almost like the club held back on a 'fresh start' by keeping some sentiment.
You could call it continuity though - it's not like the last few years were so terrible that we were looking to start from scratch. A new team takes time to gel and adjust. Signing Briscoe, Fox, Newton, Galea, Jake Webster et al. saw us climb from 11th to 7th, but we only got 3 more competition points in 2008 than we had in 2007. It was their second season when we started to look much improved. No guarantee it'll pan out the same way this time, but it might. Might even be sooner - last seasons late charge to the play-offs showed what a bit of a turn in form, confidence and luck can do.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
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it might have been worse
