: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:44 pm  

Fax4Life wrote:

Our kicking game is not good enough though come on, take the Gateshead game they put in some great kicks first half which killed us, we always seem to rush our kicks and lets be honest its not the best part of Penkys game, he does well occasionally but most are too close to the full back or wingers. Ben Black is a runner of the ball and he too only gets the odd good kick in. I am talking about the relieving pressure kicks like what we needed against Widnes in the NRC seme which we didn't do. Remember how we beat Widnes last season when Holly kept putting them back on their own line time after time.
Its the one area where we are missing Holly.
We do need a good stand off for next season imo

Hear Hear!...well said.

Re: Great signs of commitiment form squad : Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:25 pm  

freddies wig wrote:

http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/Haley-We-all-want-to.5431078.jp



This is great. Shows good commitment from the boys. Sign em up and add some powerful forwards and a half back!

agree with you altogether.

Re: Great signs of commitiment form squad : Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:28 pm  

billyfax wrote:

Not sure about the half back comment. We play fast rugby with the need of a quick play the ball,, which our hookers penky and gleeson take advantage of. Maybe that type of play is less effective in the last 20 but that's when black comes to the fore and beswics kicking and thought is helping out. I think adding another stand off would actually mean changing the way we play. They can't all have the ball as we found out when Hemmingway came to the team.

said halfback not a standoff.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:52 pm  

Just great to see that the current squad love playing for the club as a fan thats all you can ask for.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:07 pm  

Think Mick Govin can do a job at stand off he's a class player and if he can avoid injury he'll only get better with more matches under his belt

Re: Great signs of commitiment form squad : Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:19 pm  

billyfax wrote:

Not sure about the half back comment. We play fast rugby with the need of a quick play the ball,, which our hookers penky and gleeson take advantage of. Maybe that type of play is less effective in the last 20 but that's when black comes to the fore and beswics kicking and thought is helping out. I think adding another stand off would actually mean changing the way we play. They can't all have the ball as we found out when Hemmingway came to the team.

Another stand off??? Appart from young Bowman there isn't another stand off at the club

Re: Great signs of commitiment form squad : Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:01 pm  

Leon Ashton wrote:

Another stand off??? Appart from young Bowman there isn't another stand off at the club

Ok adding a stand off to the team then.

Who are you taking out? If you want beswick, black, gleeson and penky in the team where the hell are you going to put a stand off??? You need forwards on the bench as they do the work load. Plus gleeson and penky would fill the other bench slot.

Maybe next year we might be able to fit one in if beswick moved to loose forward and shad was to return home but as the team stands now you'd have to drop one of the four main players!

Re: Great signs of commitiment form squad : Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:11 pm  

billyfax wrote:

Ok adding a stand off to the team then.

Who are you taking out? If you want beswick, black, gleeson and penky in the team where the hell are you going to put a stand off??? You need forwards on the bench as they do the work load. Plus gleeson and penky would fill the other bench slot.

Maybe next year we might be able to fit one in if beswick moved to loose forward and shad was to return home but as the team stands now you'd have to drop one of the four main players!

i agree tho we need a recognised stand off, wat if "2 of the 4" got injured towards end of season, wed struggle..

adding a stand off to squad would give us cover and more competition for places...

would love to see A bowman given a chance, however with his lack of 1st rugby team and general inexperience at this level would be wary chucking him in there just yet?

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:18 pm  

I would expect young bowman to get more of a run out next year. I agree that our out of hand kicking is definitely not a strength of this team, especially when under pressure and holroyds play was key last year at times. However it has to be right for the team. I'm sure MC and MH have it all in hand.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:20 pm  

billyfax wrote:

I would expect young bowman to get more of a run out next year. I agree that our out of hand kicking is definitely not a strength of this team, especially when under pressure and holroyds play was key last year at times. However it has to be right for the team. I'm sure MC and MH have it all in hand.

Watch the Tries of the season DVD & look at how many of the tries come from Holroyd, either been a key man in the build up play, or from a well placed Kick, We certainly miss the kicking game, but are able to score more tries from running the ball and throwing it around. With a precision kicker in the side we'd be scoring more I'm sure.