[Bullseye]

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 6:05 pm  

From what I saw today Green and Rogers look a bit off 1st team level.

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 6:14 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

From what I saw today Green and Rogers look a bit off 1st team level.

I would agree but I think the bloke behind me screaming at bulls to get a grip when it was a team full of kids felt a tad out of order

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 6:23 pm  

A decent hit out for Mark Dunning's men. I felt that we controlled the game from the early stages of the first half and played some good stuff for a first game back. It was great to see Walker and Holmes play, an improvement on what we had last year. I felt that Wallace, Butler and England did well getting yards on the edge with Holmes, Lawford and Walker providing that creativity. We scored a couple of nice fast tries from deep, which was good to see on such a heavy pitch. Having Lilley at 9 is an interesting statement from MD. I assume he will move between the hooking and halves positions when needed this season.

I felt that the scoreline flattered Dewsbury in the end as they scored 2 late tries when we had our Academy players finishing the game. In conclusion, a game that provided some good rugby and builds some level of excitement under the new regime.

MOTM: Lawford

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 6:25 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

From what I saw today Green and Rogers look a bit off 1st team level.

I agree. It's still very early in the year and I wouldn't want to write them off after one pre-season friendly. If we lose some of our middles to injury I feel we may be lacking some real quality going forward. Hopefully they prove me wrong this season.

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 6:45 pm  

dddooommm wrote:

I agree. It's still very early in the year and I wouldn't want to write them off after one pre-season friendly. If we lose some of our middles to injury I feel we may be lacking some real quality going forward. Hopefully they prove me wrong this season.

To be fair I felt green grew into the game

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 7:34 pm  

I only heard the game on the radio and I know he only played half a game but Blackmore was only mentioned a couple of times. Can anyone who was at the game tell me more?

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 7:43 pm  

Peter Goddard wrote:

I only heard the game on the radio and I know he only played half a game but Blackmore was only mentioned a couple of times. Can anyone who was at the game tell me more?

He had a bit of go forward from the back to be fair

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 7:50 pm  

He also only played one half

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 8:24 pm  

Peter Goddard wrote:

I only heard the game on the radio and I know he only played half a game but Blackmore was only mentioned a couple of times. Can anyone who was at the game tell me more?

Runs hard and fast and with Arundel as his centre he could score plenty of tries this season.

[Bullseye]

Re: Dewsbury (A) - Pre-Season : Sun Jan 15, 2023 8:30 pm  

Green and Rogers are only young lads and have a lot to learn. But with Baldwinson, Scurr and Lawrence as out only bona fide props (Thompson is a second rower who's moving up to prop apparently) we may have to call on them so I hope we're looking at recruiting another.

Blackmore is bigger than some of our forwards. He took a few carries and made a handling error. Didn't do much but got some stick from the Dewsbury crowd. I'm on record as not rating him and he's got other baggage too so I'm not his biggest fan.