Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 7:54 pm  

Deus Dat Incrementum wrote:

I love the optimism about the best team on the park wins but in a team environment you have to factor in the man management and ability to motivate a team.
Woorying signals are offload and everbody is looking at each other to see who is going to pick the ball up. Or Clark running on his own. We just need a play the ball with nobody at dummy half in the second half to have a full house of big red flags that say that the coach has no influence on the players.

This.

Enjoy the build up to the game next week because the aftermath is going to be awful.

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:19 pm  

When Austin is playing we retain ball extremely well. I'm very confident.

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:22 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

When Austin is playing we retain ball extremely well. I'm very confident.

I'll have what she's having . . .

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:23 pm  

Jack Napier wrote:

I'll have what she's having . . .

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:34 pm  

We haven't looked like a team for so long, I cannot see it suddenly clicking into place on Saturday.

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:36 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

When Austin is playing we retain ball extremely well. I'm very confident.

Do we though?

In terms of us being full strength next week, I don't think price knows what our best 13/17 is.

I hope charnley is fit, because mamo isn't as good
Why did we release Atkins early? If Goodwin fails his head test we're fooked. ( Obviously nobody could've guessed this one).

8/9/10 is obvious, 11/12/13 not so much

Thought currie was ok tonight, livett is weak in defence, sita can't start, 13 minutes is pathetic, unless there was an injury I missed.

Westwood is done for me, one year too far unfortunately. Jason Clark, thought he was impressive early on in his defensive work but as the season has gone on I'm failing to see what he brings.

This will be our 6th Wembley appearance in 11 years and it's the first one where I think we'll lose

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:40 pm  

How can we possibly win with a leaky defence - left side in particular, lack of go forward, no shape in attack and no idea how to score tries?
We're making too many basic errors- missed tackles, dropped passes, going one man out in attack.
Players trying to solve things on their own, no runners onto the ball.
Confidence shot to bits.

All they can do is work hard and give the same effort Philbin gave tonight.

Still I can only see a massive hiding coming.....

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:13 pm  

Were getting Smashed plain and simple, and that's the bottom line, end of.

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:27 pm  

Fletcher-end-red wrote:

This will be our 6th Wembley appearance in 11 years and it's the first one where I think we'll lose

I was convinced we'd win our first 3 cc final's because we had the pack to make gain and the headstrong half's to win it...

In our last 2 loses I was full of doubt..we had a pack to compete but we were controlled by Roberts who just lacked the stuff all season and Sandow who had enough stuff to last Soho all season...

But now we are once again managed by a head strong professional in Austin and surrounded with Clark and Ratchford have a winning recipe again.

This CC is the most confident of a win I've been since 2010.

Re: Good news : Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:55 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I was convinced we'd win our first 3 cc final's because we had the pack to make gain and the headstrong half's to win it...

In our last 2 loses I was full of doubt..we had a pack to compete but we were controlled by Roberts who just lacked the stuff all season and Sandow who had enough stuff to last Soho all season...

But now we are once again managed by a head strong professional in Austin and surrounded with Clark and Ratchford have a winning recipe again.

This CC is the most confident of a win I've been since 2010.

You are puddled Duckie !