Joined: Nov 20 2011 Posts: 1173 Location: Australia
Tarquin Fuego wrote:Loved it !! Great opening 20 Intense and disciplined !! Great team effort - well done the whole team and coaches
Couple of talking points for me
1. Clock stopped and stayed stopped allowing Leeds one more tackle at 39.20 If they’d scored with 10 seconds to go would the ref be allowed to look at the clock on a replay ?
2. Hurrell - how on earth was he allowed to play until half time. Disgrace to player welfare. Watching on Sky you could see he was out of it after the collision. Donaldson also looked concussed. Don’t staff watch players after a head knock ????
Had a quick look at your talking points.
1. Clock was stopped at 39.20 for a scrum after Sutcliffe was being bundled into touch and released the ball to Griffin who put his foot on the touchline hence feed to Leeds and 6 more tackles. Subsequently ref then called play on but clock was not started for about 8 secs. Leeds mucked up their passing movement and Hull regained the ball and broke away to be stopped near halfway when TV clock reached the 40 mins mark and the siren sounded. As I understand it the game clock is not the TV clock. Now -what is your question again?
2. Hurrell as soon as he was seen reeling/ stumbling should have immediately been taken from the field for HIA as would have happened in the NRL, where an independent doctor monitors a screen to ensure protocols are met. Super League are just not up to scratch in this area of enforcement.
Joined: Nov 20 2011 Posts: 1173 Location: Australia
Dave K. wrote:Not even a game has been played and you have started, Fash is a favorite, Connor not good enough at stand off and Lewis B not good enough.
Connor has proved in a few games in the last 3 years he can play at stand off, no halfback would have played well with our poor pack the 2nd half of the season, in fact Sneyd was as bad if not worst and got no where near the flack Connor did.
I'd personally rather have Kelly at 6 and Connor at centre, but Radford has chosen him there, so let's wait see how he gets on in this new side. You are too quick to write players off, which has been proven in the past.
Excited for today's game, not confident though.
I believe people saying that Connor is not good enough to play No 6 are going to have to eat their words during this season.
Also I do concede my short term memory is on the slide but didn't Radford make a statement last year that Connor would have the No6 jersey this season at the time Kelly was in great form and there was talk of him returning to the NRL?
Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:Some stats to demonstrate the dominance.
We had 19 missed tackles vs 55 tackle busts.
We had 13 offloads, Leeds had 3 offloads.
We had 6 players over 100 metres, Leeds had 1 (Jack Walker 102)
Johnstone was our top tackler with 38. Leeds had 4 players make more than that.
Penalty count was 10-4, Error count was 16-8. There aren't any GLDO stats but we won that too.
Basically, you name it, we bossed it.
Edit, I've just noticed that Sao isn't listed in the stats, so you can add a few more tackle busts and offloads for him.
We had a massive weight of possession so I would expect our stats to be better than Leeds. Good to see the workload being shared fairly in the forwards with all 4 props making double figures in number of carries
Joined: Jan 30 2004 Posts: 8119 Location: Never never land away with the fairies
Riderofthepalehorse wrote:Complete performance, bigger faster, stronger, was we that good, or were Leeds that poor, Ligi, Sav, and our young hooker, some engines there. Team selection spot on, second half atrocious conditions, but just about error free, get Ratu signed up.
Think the points you mention are fair, it was a complete a performance as we have seen for long time and for the first game of meaning in terms of league pts. No doubting the team is bigger,faster, stringer and probably fitter than before so big improvement. I thought we were pretty good and the 17 did what they had to do. Radfords 17 & game plan was proven correct and don't think we got out of 2nd gear. Leeds were pretty poor to be honest and although I was confident we'd win I expected them to be better than they showed.
All in all they did what was needed to get off to a good start and all the players performed well and as a team. Still room for improvement as to be expected at this early stage but looking miles ahead of were we have been at this point the past 2 seasons.
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Joined: Feb 03 2004 Posts: 3679 Location: United Kingdom
The try came on the same wing that the 2nd try could easily have come from On the first try I could see them scoring from the play the ball Naulago was too far in on both occasions
Chris71 wrote:To be honest looked to me like he played the ball correctly. Think the ptb is more of a mess now than it was before they said about cracking down on it
indeed, watched few times and he did nothing wrong, comparable to pretty much all the ptb's that went unpenalised all weekend. Either tidy it up, consistently, or leave it, the half way (half ar53d) approach in thefirst round games was shocking.
Tarquin Fuego wrote:The try came on the same wing that the 2nd try could easily have come from On the first try I could see them scoring from the play the ball Naulago was too far in on both occasions
That Needs addressing Asap
You mean Naulago who was pretty much outstanding?
You are the only person I have ever read posts from who could find a bucket of diamonds in a bag of coal, and complain about the dust!
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