Joined: Aug 01 2002 Posts: 915 Location: Flying the Black & White Flag in Ripon, North Yorkshire
number 6 wrote:Not seen any highlights of the game yet being over here in Spain but it looked liked the catalan winger stamped on sas' face, anybody know what happened?
As for the idiot saying the french shouldn't be in the league, get a grip
Great crowd there yesterday - wish I was there!
I wasn't overly convinced it was intentional - he stumbles whilst leaning forward and arching his foot up, which suggests to me he was trying to avoid standing on his head. On the other hand, he jumped over his head, which carries a risk of ending badly. Silly rather than deliberate. There was no downward movement with the leg, which I'd expect if it were a stamp.
And I agree - Catalans have done incredible things in the south of France, and if dimwit-boy is seriously suggesting he'd rather go to Batley, then he can always go and support them. The crowd might get into triple figures if he turns up!
Dave K. wrote:Thought our bench was poor yesterday and Ellis had his quietest game for a while, thought we kept Taia pretty quiet.
They still made 60 more tackles than us and that is why we were on top the last 20, like saints at home that last pass just wasn't there.
I'd freshen things up a bit at Leeds and bring in Shaul, Naughton, Lineham, Bowden, Abdul and Cunningham.
Rest Ellis, Westy, Yeaman, watts and Pryce.
Shaul Naughton Talanoa Sa Lineham Rankin Sneyd Paea Houghton Green Mini Whiting Abdul
Feka Bowden Cunningham Thompson
Still a team capable of giving them a game.
Did ellis come back on? Must admit I didn't notice him in the 2nd half.
Mini made as many carries and more metres than green, feka and whiting put together. If we're to be more competitive next year we need a better bench.
They made more tackles because they were getting more men in the tackle which was slowing us down. I don't think we looked to have any more energy than they did in the last 20 minutes personally.
sneyd had another of his "meh" games and hopefully has it out of his system for a few weeks now. We need watts, paea, mini, ellis, sneyd and pryce in top form in the next few games. Have a feeling our mid week game at wakey could be a lot more difficult than it would have been a month ago
Mrs Barista wrote:Mini's second top in the comp for tackle busts and Tala's in the top 10 too.
Tricky to work out the strategy for this upcoming run.
Sounded like radford wanted to rest a few for the next match but now can't because we lost yesterday. Really tricky period coming up where the season could collapse around our ears if we're not careful. We could be out of the 8 today or have 2 teams within 2 points of us. We could potentially be 10th by the end of next weekend
Joined: Jul 15 2005 Posts: 29816 Location: West Yorkshire
Jake the Peg wrote:Sounded like radford wanted to rest a few for the next match but now can't because we lost yesterday. Really tricky period coming up where the season could collapse around our ears if we're not careful. We could be out of the 8 today or have 2 teams within 2 points of us. We could potentially be 10th by the end of next weekend
Playing the percentages I'd sack off the Leeds game next week, go all out for the cup game and pin our hopes on winning matches against the lower teams. Our record at Leeds is truly awful and don't see the point in expending a load of energy to be undone by McGuire in the closing stages.
Mrs Barista wrote:Playing the percentages I'd sack off the Leeds game next week, go all out for the cup game and pin our hopes on winning matches against the lower teams. Our record at Leeds is truly awful and don't see the point in expending a load of energy to be undone by McGuire in the closing stages.
I'd do the same but listening to radford yesterday I don't think he will.
Joined: Jul 15 2005 Posts: 29816 Location: West Yorkshire
Jake the Peg wrote:I'd do the same but listening to radford yesterday I don't think he will.
I wouldn't expect him to say he was sacking off the Leeds game to the media tbf. Going to be loads of nonsense talked by the coaches in the next couple of weeks.
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