Re: Foster to Hull : Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:22 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

Yes you are, namely 20 years' worth of tactical evolution...

If you cast your mind back just a few years or so we had two of the fastest wingers in the game scoring tries for fun.
I'm sorry but I dont buy your "tactical evolution". Incidentally 20yrs is nothing when considering my experience in the game of Rugby League. I value your opinion, you are entitled to it, but I could never accept it.

Re: Foster to Hull : Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:50 pm  

wirefox wrote:

If you cast your mind back just a few years or so we had two of the fastest wingers in the game scoring tries for fun.
I'm sorry but I dont buy your "tactical evolution". Incidentally 20yrs is nothing when considering my experience in the game of Rugby League. I value your opinion, you are entitled to it, but I could never accept it.

I like fast wingers too but alot of coaches go for size rather than pace. Wigan went for a freak like Inga who was fast and big but the first team I remember sacrificing pace in the name of tactics was the Dulls, I remember them having a bloke called Scales on the wing

Re: Foster to Hull : Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:59 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

Gardner has far more over foster than just experience - better defence, immeasurably better kick returns, a genuine threat from kicks to the corner, more effective in exit sets .....

After 10 years more in the game, I'd expect him to be better in defence.

I think you're also being generous in regard to his kick returns, better maybe, immeasurably less so. Maybe 2 yards per return?

Re: Foster to Hull : Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:27 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

I like fast wingers too but alot of coaches go for size rather than pace. Wigan went for a freak like Inga who was fast and big but the first team I remember sacrificing pace in the name of tactics was the Dulls, I remember them having a bloke called Scales on the wing

I take it you never saw Ike Southward at Workington.

Re: Foster to Hull : Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:27 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I take it you never saw Ike Southward at Workington.

I did. Some player

Re: Foster to Hull : Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:08 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I take it you never saw Ike Southward at Workington.

before my time

Re: Foster to Hull : Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:22 am  

Well he was a Wigan fan from birth...

Re: Foster to Hull : Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:00 pm  

Good solid performance tonight from Foster in the council estate derby . Top class kicking display solid in defence and ok going forward.

That haircut is bloody aweful mind

More impressive for me was Manu, can't wait to see him in the redvee !

Re: Foster to Hull : Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:14 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

Good solid performance tonight from Foster in the council estate derby . Top class kicking display solid in defence and ok going forward.

Great try saving tackle, some other efforts in defence, try assist, great pace to force the goal line drop out, all his goals kicked and one of his kick off specials to force a knock on (which led to a try). He looked like the Foster of old but then again he is being coached once more by a coach who believes in him, as opposed to one who believes he is only worth being permanently excluded.

Re: Foster to Hull : Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:22 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

Good solid performance tonight from Foster in the council estate derby . Top class kicking display solid in defence and ok going forward.

That haircut is bloody aweful mind

More impressive for me was Manu, can't wait to see him in the redvee !

don't get too carried away with manus' peformance tonight, 1st decent game in weeks, could've had something to do with sky being there!