Deacon : Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:18 pm  

Deacon was just awful tonight. Looks a pale imitation of the GB player he was a few seasons ago.

Time to play the reserve half back. Oh wait.... he just signed for Catalan.

Re: Deacon : Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:19 pm  

Shmoo wrote:

Deacon was just awful tonight. Looks a pale imitation of the GB player he was a few seasons ago.

Time to play the reserve half back. Oh wait.... he just signed for Catalan.

Funny guy, . His defence was an improvement from last week, but have to agree he was pi$s poor.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:19 pm  

Well we couldnt do anything about Bird but I agree our halves are shocking, we need some quality in there desperately.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:22 pm  

To be fair to Deacon he doesn't have a decent half back partner to offload some work onto.

If Deacon had a good, direct running and link-up stand off along side him then he'd be able to control things off acting halfback and lay the platform correctly.

However, Ben Jeffries isn't a good, recognised 5/8th and the duo simply don't compliment each other.

Missing out on Greg Bird is massive blow for Bradford.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:24 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

Well we couldnt do anything about Bird but I agree our halves are shocking, we need some quality in there desperately.

My beef is that we don't have any replacement. There's no competition for places. What would we do if Deacon gets injured?

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:24 pm  

Shmoo wrote:

My beef is that we don't have any replacement. There's no competition for places. What would we do if Deacon gets injured?

Just chuck Morro or Menzies in there which looks to be Macca's plan for the season.

: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:43 pm  

Alex BP' wrote:

To be fair to Deacon he doesn't have a decent half back partner to offload some work onto.

If Deacon had a good, direct running and link-up stand off along side him then he'd be able to control things off acting halfback and lay the platform correctly.

However, Ben Jeffries isn't a good, recognised 5/8th and the duo simply don't compliment each other.

Missing out on Greg Bird is massive blow for Bradford.

I though us missing out on him was a big blow to us untill a young man called Sam Tomkins took the field.

Re: Deacon : Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:44 pm  

Shmoo wrote:

Deacon was just awful tonight. Looks a pale imitation of the GB player he was a few seasons ago.

Time to play the reserve half back. Oh wait.... he just signed for Catalan.

Drop him as captain and let him concentrate on his game, morrison would be so much better and is more vocal.

: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:03 am  

Deacon had a terribel game but that is once a flood. he has one bad game for every 50 good games so it is a tad unfair to get on his back for one shocker.

: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:28 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Deacon had a terribel game but that is once a flood. he has one bad game for every 50 good games so it is a tad unfair to get on his back for one shocker.

I agree with most of that matey - except the fact that Deacs had a bad game First of all - he played behind a rubbish set of forwards, second - he cannot be expected to carry the team EVERY week, & thirdly - learn how to spell Terrible