Workington Town (A) : Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:12 am  

So a brave defeat against a top team, where we all say "if we perform like that consistently, we'll be fine" Plenty of praise for the team. We now face a team at the bottom of the league, without a win, ravaged by injuries who we should comfortably beat if we perform anything like Monday. We've been here before haven't we? Fully expecting another defeat

Always tough up at Workington and they do enjoy giving us a bloody nose. Same attitude and commitment as what we had against Leigh is required.

[Bullseye]

Re: Workington Town (A) : Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:27 am  

Might be helped by getting our Leeds lads back in again for this one hopefully.

Re: Workington Town (A) : Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:14 pm  

It's all set up for a disappointing defeat isn't it...

I'd settle for a squeaky 8-6 win

Re: Workington Town (A) : Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:00 pm  

You'd hope that we could pick up from where we left off against Leigh but the short turnaround and long trip up to Workington could see a tired and lacklustre performance. I hope I'm wrong and we put in another good performance and come away with a comfortable win. Don't throw away the good progress we made against Leigh by bottling it against Workington.

Re: Workington Town (A) : Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:58 am  

Short turnaround? It's one day shorter than usual. You hear former players on Sky say all the time that the short turnaround excuse is a myth.
No excuses for this one. The players have proved that they can perform for 80 minutes when they feel like it. If we go back to the half-arsed attitude we've seen a few times this season then things have to change in the backroom staff.

Re: Workington Town (A) : Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:10 am  

Be interesting to see who turns up from Leeds because they were really poor against Hull. Johnson was subbed off after 10 minutes and never came back on which I don't like to see. Fusitua took a bang on the head and doesn't look like he's enjoying it and pretty much all of Leeds young players look like they need a half a stone across the shoulders and a season at Championship level. Mustapha was in the squad but didn't play.

[Bullseye]

Re: Workington Town (A) : Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:00 am  

Think whoever was in charge of the recruitment at the Rhinos needs a kick up the Harris. They are far too light up front and as a result they're getting smashed and their few bona fide front rowers are being run into the ground.

I think all the Leeds lads we've had have done ok for us. Not sure we need Johnson at the moment but any of the others would slot in nicely.

Re: Workington Town (A) : Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:18 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Think whoever was in charge of the recruitment at the Rhinos needs a kick up the Harris. They are far too light up front and as a result they're getting smashed and their few bona fide front rowers are being run into the ground.

I think all the Leeds lads we've had have done ok for us. Not sure we need Johnson at the moment but any of the others would slot in nicely.

Are you disappointed in Oledski? I thought he was going to be a top class prop. All the lads who have come into our backrow, O'Connor, Butler, Mustapha on loan and Wallace as well have done well. As has Doyle when moved there.

[Bullseye]

Re: Workington Town (A) : Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:56 pm  

Think they're overusing Oledzki at the moment and as a result he's not as effective.

Re: Workington Town (A) : Fri Mar 18, 2022 2:14 pm  

Mustapha, O'Connor and Tindall all return to the squad: