Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:14 pm  

Thought we were too conservative with the ball and played into Catalans hands for large sections.
Our lack of go forward in the first half was concerning as well. Still, it's two from two with a lot of room for improvement.
Thought Dan Russell played very well, might have to eat some humble pie if he continues like that.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:27 pm  

I thought Dan Russell was Superb tonight, played 80 mins and tackled and tackled and tackled, Hit hard in defence, took the ball up fast and aggressive, followed players up making breaks through the line, and helped drag players back and towards the touchline. Very impressive.
Great to see Fitz back and was good for us, Leyland was ok but a few dodgy tackle attempts to work on.
Jordy Crowther giving away the penalty for rubbing and pushing Kearys head really peed me off, so childish and unecessary.
It was a good hard fought win, the kind of games that put you in good stead for finals

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:32 pm  

karetaker wrote:

Was well impressed with his leadership on the pitch tonight.

Agreed up to the point where we should have gone for the drop-goal, which would have put us 13 points ahead, and the game would have been ours.

Instead we went for another speculative move to create a try that we didn`t need and Catalan scored one instead.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:35 pm  

karetaker wrote:

Was well impressed with his leadership on the pitch tonight.

Massive props to him from me, definitely my fave.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:39 pm  

BOSS HOG wrote:

Agreed up to the point where we should have gone for the drop-goal, which would have put us 13 points ahead, and the game would have been ours.

Instead we went for another speculative move to create a try that we didn`t need and Catalan scored one instead.

Admit I was shouting for the one pointer at that time.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Feb 22, 2025 1:07 am  

Dufty & Crowther need to follow Fitzgibbons lead in being aggressive but staying on the right side of things - surprised a little with Crowther, haven’t seen that side of him before.

We’re clearly not firing yet, my biggest concern is we’ll continue to struggle against the good teams with yardage / territory. This will put extra pressure on our defence.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:24 am  

I see over the last 2 games we still have a lot of toughness about us which is good but our attack hasn’t come on yet.
On the other hand watching the highlights of the Wigan game last night they looked really sharp with ball in hand and were scoring for fun. I hope we get this right for Vegas otherwise i can only see one result sadly.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:35 am  

I was pleased we won.

The positives for me were:
- Russell's workrate
- Walker's leadership
- Thewlis's proactivity in defence (thought he was a bit quiet last week)
- Fitzy getting a run out

To work on:
- Leyland and Lindop both dropped off a few tackles
- Crowther's brain melt
- Dufty getting involved in stuff he didn't need to
- King was anonymous apart from his try

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:29 am  

Dufty needs to stop running his mouth off, if he keeps that up i can only see more penalties given against us.

Re: Tonight’s game v Catalan : Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:52 am  

It did seem like that ref had a personal beef with Dufty. He pinged Dufty for using the ball to lift himself up once (fine), but that Pangai Junior did the exact same every time he was tackled and got away with it all night.