: Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:48 pm  

Agree on Scruton, he's not done much to impress since arriving. Although at least he looked eager against Leeds. Kopczak needs more game time, I say keep him in there.

Why not recall Matt James? From what I hear he's impressed on his stint there, he was showing good signs before that too.

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:55 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

I am available!

That runs the risk of being added to the list of embarrassing-things-you-never-knew-about-Bullseye if taken out of context? Fortunately that would never happen on here...

[Bullseye]

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:57 pm  

yougengis wrote:

Why not recall Matt James? From what I hear he's impressed on his stint there, he was showing good signs before that too.

I'd leave him there for now. I think he needs a longer spell at Fax to develop into the player we need, I'm not convinced he's SL class yet.

[Bullseye]

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:57 pm  

Adeybull wrote:

That runs the risk of being added to the list of embarrassing-things-you-never-knew-about-Bullseye if taken out of context? Fortunately that would never happen on here...

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:12 pm  

They've got Briers back, could put a boost into them.

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:13 pm  

Burgess, Lynch, Scruton, Kopczak, Langley, Solomona, that list of names supplies as much indication as any why we are pretty erratic so far this year;

Burgess may be being asked to do other roles, but there's no getting away from the fact that he's having a poor 2009 compared with the heights of some of his 2008 form.

Lynch cannot be criticised but seems to be carrying injuries frequently. Still, he's head and shoulders our best at the moment, Menzies excluded.

Scruton did well enough against Leeds but other than that has looked only average so far.

Kopczak to me has been second only to Lynch, he has come on a lot, but he's only a youngster still and is learning.

Langley is a disappointment. Sure he works hard but he used to regularly break the line, go on runs etc. yet now for some reason he never does. What happened to his potential? He's the right age now, we should be seeing the best of him.

Solomona, well, I am a fan of his creativity and special offloads but thinking about it, Endacott I'm afraid may well have it about right. Certainly, when we're struggling as we have been for form, we need a lawn-sprinkler type of player as much as we need a hole in the head, if there is one thing above all we need now it is ball retention when we do have it. We kill ourselves, and that's a fact.

In the light of the above, the signing of Menzies, big as it was, gains in importance and significance. If you take his immense contributions to every game out, we would be in dire straits indeed.
Not every player can play top of his form every week, but we are entitled, across the board, to expect much more from our pack men than we seem to be getting.

[Bullseye]

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:14 pm  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

They've got Briers back, could put a boost into them.

He'll get them around the park, but the positive is we've now got a good pantomime villain to boo on Friday Then there's Westwood too!

All set to be an entertaining game!

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:14 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Burgess, Lynch, Scruton, Kopczak, Langley, Solomona, that list of names supplies as much indication as any why we are pretty erratic so far this year;

Burgess may be being asked to do other roles, but there's no getting away from the fact that he's having a poor 2009 compared with the heights of some of his 2008 form.

Lynch cannot be criticised but seems to be carrying injuries frequently. Still, he's head and shoulders our best at the moment, Menzies excluded.

Scruton did well enough against Leeds but other than that has looked only average so far.

Kopczak to me has been second only to Lynch, he has come on a lot, but he's only a youngster still and is learning.

Langley is a disappointment. Sure he works hard but he used to regularly break the line, go on runs etc. yet now for some reason he never does. What happened to his potential? He's the right age now, we should be seeing the best of him.

Solomona, well, I am a fan of his creativity and special offloads but thinking about it, Endacott I'm afraid may well have it about right. Certainly, when we're struggling as we have been for form, we need a lawn-sprinkler type of player as much as we need a hole in the head, if there is one thing above all we need now it is ball retention when we do have it. We kill ourselves, and that's a fact.

In the light of the above, the signing of Menzies, big as it was, gains in importance and significance. If you take his immense contributions to every game out, we would be in dire straits indeed.
Not every player can play top of his form every week, but we are entitled, across the board, to expect much more from our pack men than we seem to be getting.

Think that pretty much sums up the season so far. Under-performing, we should be seeing a lot more.

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:21 pm  

Ewwenorfolk wrote:

Think that pretty much sums up the season so far. Under-performing, we should be seeing a lot more.

TBF I should have mentioned the excellent Morrison. How we miss him, he's never had a bad game for mine.

: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:23 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

TBF I should have mentioned the excellent Morrison. How we miss him, he's never had a bad game for mine.

Imo if we had him on the park against Wakey we would probably have won. He seems to know how to get the team into shape and stop all the stupid mistakes.