Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:22 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

Pretty much agree with all of that.

Lance, lance, lance! Its seriously like he's working hard on not playing for us! what freaking idiot put him in the NZ warriors team for 10 years?? He's a worse 6 than when Hanley thought he'd found a better 6 than Tommy in Trindal! I seriously can't see where he could improve our 17 at all. Shocking, shocking player.

The penalty count was horrendous, but plenty positives to be taken from the game, and plenty to wotk on

Lance gave one pass that backfired, apart from that he did ok.

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:23 pm  

roader wrote:

Apart from Walsh I didn't see anything tonight that would give me confidence for the season ahead. We scored three tries, two which were just lucky and never looked like scoring at any other time.

I disagree. We came to close to scoring in the first half when Walsh hit Percival with a cut out ball but the ball to Swift was poor. Otherwise he'd have strolled in. Roby came close to scoring from his own kick in the 1st half too.

In the second half Hohaia and Walmsley were both held up inches from the line and Dawson was close to scoring from a Walsh kick.

To say we never looked like scoring is ridiculous.

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:24 pm  

roader wrote:

Lance gave one pass that backfired, apart from that he did ok.

And the dropped ball from the bomb that led to the last try.

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:26 pm  

Discipline was a major issue tonight. Bentham wasn't great, but we won't win games by conceding the amount of needless penalties we did. I also think our second phase needs looking at. Walsh did eveyrthing expected of him: directed the side well, controlled the game, and his kicking game was decent. When we found ourselves in decent positions though, we just didnt do enough. We looked a stand-off short IMO. Lomax is easy to defend out the back when your 6 isn't quite doing enough. We created opportunities, but then hit the wrong runner or made the wrong decision.

Positives. I thought Amor played well once again and worked hard. Great to see Robes score as well. Walsh, as I say, did everything expected of him and appeared to direct the team well. Hopefully there is nothing too serious with him. I would certainly give Wheeler a chance at 6 at some point. I think he is what we were missing tonight in the sense that he is a genuine stand-off who can take the line on and make decisions.

I think we can take a lot from it on the whole. A few positives but plenty to improve on IMO.

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:31 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

I disagree. We came to close to scoring in the first half when Walsh hit Percival with a cut out ball but the ball to Swift was poor. Otherwise he'd have strolled in. Roby came close to scoring from his own kick in the 1st half too.

In the second half Hohaia and Walmsley were both held up inches from the line and Dawson was close to scoring from a Walsh kick.

To say we never looked like scoring is ridiculous.

That's the problem. We came close to scoring.

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:32 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

I disagree. We came to close to scoring in the first half when Walsh hit Percival with a cut out ball but the ball to Swift was poor. Otherwise he'd have strolled in. Roby came close to scoring from his own kick in the 1st half too.

In the second half Hohaia and Walmsley were both held up inches from the line and Dawson was close to scoring from a Walsh kick.

To say we never looked like scoring is ridiculous.

We didn't look as though we had it in us to really open them up IMO, mainly due to the reasons in my post. I think that's what he is getting at.

I agree with you on the Percival/Swift incident though. Always difficult to tell from the opposite end but it looked like a great cut out ball from Walsh.

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:40 pm  

roader wrote:

That's the problem. We came close to scoring.

Not sure why that's a negative thing. We proved last year going all out in a friendly means diddly.

We created opportunities, we got close, hopefully in 2 weeks, well finish them off.

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:48 pm  

Tez the Saint wrote:

We didn't look as though we had it in us to really open them up IMO, mainly due to the reasons in my post. I think that's what he is getting at.

I agree with you on the Percival/Swift incident though. Always difficult to tell from the opposite end but it looked like a great cut out ball from Walsh.

My initial reaction was that it looked like a pearler of a pass from Walsh too. Shame Percy panicked a little bit.

Speaking of him, I'm nervous about his defence if he continues to jump out of the line like he did tonight. OK it worked for the opening try when he forced an error but he was at fault for Wigan's 1st try of 2nd half and was lucky not to concede more.

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:48 pm  

roader wrote:

That's the problem. We came close to scoring.

So we came close but never looked like scoring? Make your mind up mate!

Re: Tonight's game : Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:53 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Not sure why that's a negative thing. We proved last year going all out in a friendly means diddly.

exactly