Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:59 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

He did mentioned beforehand that the kids would play the 2nd half so fans did know beforehand......but considering it was Michael McIlorum's testimonial game i find it a bit poor that they wouldn't host a game and have their best team out to get as good an attendance as possible for the guy.

Never saw that so fair to point it out.
Totally agree re-2nd part of your point.

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:29 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

True and I did point out that it wasn't your strongest pack, but still an interesting score line regardless from Toronto's POV. Would be good to see them draw a SL in the Cup.

See I find this worse than any comment McDermott made. Saints and Wigan did similar and I'd rather see a team picked and played for the match, not 1 half each. Saints for example had 12 subs, that's just taking the mick and they'd be better of just organising two separate games imo.

why is it taking the mick? most fans knew before the game this would be the case! we played cas and kr with the majority of u19s/fringe squad players and radford picked the ones the he felt could cut it against the wolfpack!

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:33 am  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

They didn't just have their worse Season in nearly 20yrs nor did i see Wane talking up the game & going out of his way to mark it down as a game that "set the tone".
As for comparing it's rellevant & easy to do when the excuses are flying around & some seem happy to accept the sh#* sarnie being fed.
Did Wigan have multiple injuries last year? =Yes
Were they at the very least competitive in most of their games?=Yes

So now you do care.

If last season was only about a few injuries you might have had have a point.
Also, you don't "set the tone" with a team missing 13 players.

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:44 am  

loiner81 wrote:

So now you do care.

If last season was only about a few injuries you might have had have a point.
Also, you don't "set the tone" with a team missing 13 players.

I care about what Leeds do the comparisons are rellevant wrt performances & the constant reminders about injuries & predominantly that was the consistent "excuse" once the season was well underway.
As for "setting the tone" that isn't selection based it's performance intent shape etc & i didn't use it the Coach did

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Tue Jan 24, 2017 12:22 pm  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

I care about what Leeds do the comparisons are rellevant wrt performances & the constant reminders about injuries & predominantly that was the consistent "excuse" once the season was well underway.
As for "setting the tone" that isn't selection based it's performance intent shape etc & i didn't use it the Coach did

Coach talks up a pre-season friendly to help sell tickets... Shocker.

As for comparisons, if Leeds had lost 50-10 to Leigh then this forum would be in meltdown. Lead by the usual cheerleaders with you in full support.

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Tue Jan 24, 2017 12:44 pm  

loiner81 wrote:

Coach talks up a pre-season friendly to help sell tickets... Shocker.

As for comparisons, if Leeds had lost 50-10 to Leigh then this forum would be in meltdown. Lead by the usual cheerleaders with you in full support.

1st & foremost performance is & always will be the most important factor for me the rest follows on.
Lets also get one thing clear don't drag me into yer petty name calling tit for tat "cheerleaders" etc 30+ page BS.
I have my own opinions & make them on what i see & hear from attending games.
If coulda woulda shoulda etc aren't rellevant the reaction was to a pathetic rudderless 80 minutes of RL after a p!$$ poor year & as for your sarcastic response it doesn't alter the fact he bigged up that game signalling an intent to his team making a point it backfired & he then backtracked those are facts.
We (imo) more than any team have the most improvement & ground to make up from last year so what Leigh/Wigan do in pre-season really isn't a comparison worth making.
What WE DO as a Club/Team is & always will be the most important in any debate comparisons can & will be made but are only really rellevant wrt injuries similar situations & the resulting performances simple as that or do you struggle with context?

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Tue Jan 24, 2017 1:06 pm  

Ooh, another strawman construction duly knocked down.

Yay!

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:43 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Ooh, another strawman construction duly knocked down.

Yay!

Are you OK, do you need a tissue William?

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:50 pm  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

1st & foremost performance is & always will be the most important factor for me the rest follows on.
Lets also get one thing clear don't drag me into yer petty name calling tit for tat "cheerleaders" etc 30+ page BS.
I have my own opinions & make them on what i see & hear from attending games.
If coulda woulda shoulda etc aren't rellevant the reaction was to a pathetic rudderless 80 minutes of RL after a p!$$ poor year & as for your sarcastic response it doesn't alter the fact he bigged up that game signalling an intent to his team making a point it backfired & he then backtracked those are facts.
We (imo) more than any team have the most improvement & ground to make up from last year so what Leigh/Wigan do in pre-season really isn't a comparison worth making.
What WE DO as a Club/Team is & always will be the most important in any debate comparisons can & will be made but are only really rellevant wrt injuries similar situations & the resulting performances simple as that or do you struggle with context?

It was a meaningless pre-season friendly with 13 first team players missing. What part of that is so difficult to understand?
Who cares what the coach or the club said pre-game? They were trying to sell tickets.

McDermott's said we're going for all 3 trophies this year, will you be stamping your feet if we don't win them all?

I stand by everything I said re the 50-10 (did Wigan have 13 first team players out?) and the silence on that from some posters is deafening!
I've not looked but I doubt there'll be a 20+ page thread on the Wigan board about the defeat.... and rightly so.

As for the cheerleaders comment, I wasn't dragging you into anything.... You've always been and still remain one of the biggest whingers on this board.

Re: Boxing Day | Leeds Rhinos v Wakefield Trinity. : Tue Jan 24, 2017 8:01 pm  

loiner81 wrote:

It was a meaningless pre-season friendly with 13 first team players missing. What part of that is so difficult to understand?
Who cares what the coach or the club said pre-game? They were trying to sell tickets.

McDermott's said we're going for all 3 trophies this year, will you be stamping your feet if we don't win them all?

I stand by everything I said re the 50-10 (did Wigan have 13 first team players out?) and the silence on that from some posters is deafening!
I've not looked but I doubt there'll be a 20+ page thread on the Wigan board about the defeat.... and rightly so.

As for the cheerleaders comment, I wasn't dragging you into anything.... You've always been and still remain one of the biggest whingers on this board.

Whingers?
Hmmm im pretty certain calling a turd a turd is far from whinging but then you reverting to pathetic name calling because it doesn't match your all is "warm & fuzzy at Headingley & they can do no wrong approach" i shouldn't be surprised.
If you get out of those nappies & want to talk with the grown ups bring something rellevant to the table other than name calling ,dodgy bets & taking everything out of context especially wrt games YOU DIDN'T EVEN ATTEND!!