Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:06 pm  

Thought we played well for 70 mins today. Nice attacking variations.
The most positive thing was the performance of Lance a couple of errors but performed very well today, my MOM.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:24 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Thought we played well for 70 mins today. Nice attacking variations.
The most positive thing was the performance of Lance a couple of errors but performed very well today, my MOM.

I thought robes was by far our best player. The early damage all come from him running at the play the ball.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:29 pm  

with Robes and Lomax playing well, we're a dangerous unit.
Bring on Leeds!!

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:39 pm  

St pete wrote:

I thought robes was by far our best player. The early damage all come from him running at the play the ball.

Robes was excellent, its just that I started watching Lance a bit more during the game his workrate, support play and defence was significantly better in this game he even had a kicking game today.
Walmsley had some kind of rib injury........anybody know what the situation is with him.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:12 pm  

St pete wrote:

I thought robes was by far our best player. The early damage all come from him running at the play the ball.

Agreed. Roby was by far the best player on the pitch today, made the right decisions and we looked dangerous when he ran off quick ball.

Hard to believe considering how long he has been out.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:21 pm  

re walmsley, he was warming up to come back on but wasn't needed.

No point risking him, better to give him some time to recover.

Today showed how teams currently view the league as nothing more than a warm up.

We were a couple of degrees hotter than normal today.

All year when fit Roby has abstained from dummy half running, letting instead the forwards do the yardage. For me this is with a view to getting us used to playing plan b rugby if teams can shut down the dummy half area.

Thought Lance also had a very good game. Showed what he can do if played as a support player rather than primary organiser.

With Walsh at scrum half and Wilkin at loose forward next year, he should get a lot more opportunity to run at people rather than have to organise.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:20 pm  

Pretty much perfect in the first half. Second half was very messy but the game was already done.

We have a chance against Leeds, but they will win because they have leaders that we don't.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:30 pm  

Roby looked back to his best and that momentum he creates let's us through the ball about and play entertaining rugby. With Walsh next year and a good set of forwards, surely we can only get better.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:21 pm  

With roby out . Oppositions with quick defenses hit the tackler quickly as we never ran from dummy half. Today they were quick off the line again. But the runs from dummy half gave us a secondary option. Their markers needed to be more aware to shut roby down. Maybe his lack of game time has meant planning a defense is harder.

Re: Much Better Performance Today : Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:22 pm  

A few thoughts on today's game :

1. Hooray for Roby.

2. Thought Wilkin played very well.

3. Hohaia was not terrible, but still for the life of me can't work out what his position is.

4. Swift and Makinson give us some actual speed out wide. What a pleasure.

5. Not sure why we're releasing Meli. He was very impressive today. Easily the best centre on the pitch.

6. Can Turner keep kicking the goals please ?

7. I think Lomax looked like he was playing on one leg after he injured it.

8. In the second half, ominously, we really struggled to make yards out of our own half. Leeds will cane us.

9. Our defence still lacks real aggression. Quite a contrast from both sides in the preceding game.

10. Adam Swift looks like a sperm with eyes.