Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:07 am  

There were a lot of question marks surrounding Williams selection before the game and Sky talked about it a lot prior to kick-off. I thought that Williams had a better game than I’ve seen from him this season but I also thought that Sky went a bit overboard in their praise. He was solid, he backed up well for his try, made a couple of half breaks and put in some decent short kicks.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:26 am  

DallasMead2 wrote:

His body is broken nowadays sadly, he physically can’t do it anymore.

He has certainly lost that bit of zip. He was sh*t off a shovel in his early days but I'm afraid that's gone. Happens to 'em all.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:31 am  

St Helens Wolf wrote:

There were a lot of question marks surrounding Williams selection before the game and Sky talked about it a lot prior to kick-off. I thought that Williams had a better game than I’ve seen from him this season but I also thought that Sky went a bit overboard in their praise. He was solid, he backed up well for his try, made a couple of half breaks and put in some decent short kicks.

I think Sky went over the top with the constant mentioning how average he had been for Wire... they seemed unable to mention his name without it. He'd still be very handy behind a dominant pack. There are few half backs who shine when their side's struggling.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 1:35 pm  

SkY went totally over the top, Williams was ok and backed up well for the try, his short kicking game was better but that was about it - all the flair and danger was coming from Tomkins and Welsby.

Bateman wss England's best, Leeming for the AS.

Cooper made some good bustling runs, missed some tackles and made some unenforced erors. I'm increasingly unconcerned by his departure.

Clark's performance? As good a reason for Walker to be in the 17 every week as I can think of.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 5:15 pm  

Interesting to note that William's played on the left edge last night. Now that maybe because Lomax was injured and Welsby favours the right edge. Or it could be that Wane knows him better than anybody and knows that William's plays better on the left.
Either way his kicking game was a lot more accurate.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:30 pm  

Watched Bulldogs vs Tigers earlier, Vaughan played for 47mins, put in 16 hit ups making 136 metres......then got sin binned with 3 mins to go ha ha
Good solid performance from him, nothing fancy just a hard graft, no nonsense forward. He's currently 4th in the league for post contact metres with 936 metres. If he can bring that over here (minus the sin bin) He'll make a good solid starting prop for us i think.
I expect him to be on a 2 year deal as well when announced. Which would mean 4 of our props would be off contract at the same time so another rebuild in the forwards would be expected.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:34 pm  

Or thane wrote:

Watched Bulldogs vs Tigers earlier, Vaughan played for 47mins, put in 16 hit ups making 136 metres......then got sin binned with 3 mins to go ha ha
Good solid performance from him, nothing fancy just a hard graft, no nonsense forward. He's currently 4th in the league for post contact metres with 936 metres. If he can bring that over here (minus the sin bin) He'll make a good solid starting prop for us i think.
I expect him to be on a 2 year deal as well when announced. Which would mean 4 of our props would be off contract at the same time so another rebuild in the forwards would be expected.

To be fair, I was happy with his sin binning as weird as it sounds. He got pinged for holding down after chasing a wests break near the end when the game was already won. Hope that attitude rubs off on a few of our lot.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:51 pm  

Deus Dat Incrementum wrote:

Interesting to note that William's played on the left edge last night. Now that maybe because Lomax was injured and Welsby favours the right edge. Or it could be that Wane knows him better than anybody and knows that William's plays better on the left.
Either way his kicking game was a lot more accurate.

Was going to make this point.

He played exclusively on the left for 5 years at Wigan.

Given the simple task of run, or play short to Farrell or out the back to Tomkins. Only really kicked when close to the line (he’s good at this).

Played on the right at Canberra because Wighton is best on the left.

Think he should get back to basics, get him on the left, run first. Find him a half back partner who will do all the open field kicking.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:56 pm  

NSW wrote:

Was going to make this point.

He played exclusively on the left for 5 years at Wigan.

Given the simple task of run, or play short to Farrell or out the back to Tomkins. Only really kicked when close to the line (he’s good at this).

Played on the right at Canberra because Wighton is best on the left.

Think he should get back to basics, get him on the left, run first. Find him a half back partner who will do all the open field kicking.

Yeah i always thought he played on the left edge, same as Holmes, always played on the left and is a great second rower. We've moved him to the right and he's playing nothing like he usually does.

Re: TV games (not Wire) : Mon Jun 20, 2022 8:24 am  

Or thane wrote:

Yeah i always thought he played on the left edge, same as Holmes, always played on the left and is a great second rower. We've moved him to the right and he's playing nothing like he usually does.

I assume that Powell played Holmes as right side 2nd row, so that it didn`t upset Currie, who was had played there throughout his career.

Holmes needs to be moved to left side 2nd row, to see if he can rediscover his form, and if it upsets Currie, then.......tough.