: Mon May 04, 2009 3:47 pm  

gary numan wrote:

Bridge strengthend his case for the centre position, he's not a half back. Monaghan might have been busy but the quality of his passing is awful and has been all season. Despite our poor defence we would have won that with more quality from the half backs.

I thought his passing was far, far better yesterday. Much crisper, more accurate and finding his runners, at pace. I thought the left edge linked extremely well, our use of dummy runners, and finding a player hitting a hole behind a dummy runner was excellent.

I've said earlier, for me, easily his best Warrington game.

: Mon May 04, 2009 3:49 pm  

I thought Monas was good when he didn't have to create anything. When the pressure was on, as usual he flopped and confirmed that he is actually not that good.

: Mon May 04, 2009 3:53 pm  

PS

I thought our kicking game was poop.

: Mon May 04, 2009 3:59 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

PS

I thought our kicking game was poop.

Oh god, sickeningly poor. Some of the kicks through, by Bridge, that dribbled to Briscoe made me cringe.

I don't think there's been a bigger Bridge 'fan' on here than me, but I'm totally in the 'he;s a right centre, who can fill in at stand off club' now. Some folk on here, mentioning no names, are adamant that Briers is no miss, Bridge can more than handle the kicking game duties etc, well, simply, he can't.

: Mon May 04, 2009 4:03 pm  

JWP wrote:

Oh god, sickeningly poor. Some of the kicks through, by Bridge, that dribbled to Briscoe made me cringe.

I don't think there's been a bigger Bridge 'fan' on here than me, but I'm totally in the 'he;s a right centre, who can fill in at stand off club' now. Some folk on here, mentioning no names, are adamant that Briers is no miss, Bridge can more than handle the kicking game duties etc, well, simply, he can't.

The thng that was most annoying was Monas technique, he really boots it but he gets underneath it too much and puts too much loft over distance.

: Mon May 04, 2009 4:18 pm  

Summed it up for me when we were in their 20, last tackle play and bridge does a pooh kick when all it needed was a nice little delicate one behind the sticks, instead one bounce and for its out for 20 meter re-start.

Few minutes later, defending our own line, Dobson puts a neat kick in behind the sticks and therefore forces a drop-out, just summed it for me that. Briers back to stand-off, Bridge right centre ASAP

: Mon May 04, 2009 4:25 pm  

Watched the match on Sky.
Nip and tuck all the way.
HKR did just about enough to win it based on their 2nd half perfromance, but we weren't bad at all a couple of the tries were excellent.

We missed Briers nouce on the last tackle - particularly the grubber kicks into the in goal area - and we panicked in the last 5 mins after scoring our last try.

Was actually quite impressed with the backs going forward and King seems to be growing in confidence every game at the mo.
That's the TS influence.

I was frustrated at some of the silly pens we gave away - Mitchell's 2 in particular.

Even without Morley te forwards did well - Carvell and Rau in particualr.

: Mon May 04, 2009 6:13 pm  

Some daft pens conceded we eradicated this V Bradford and Hudds..
Poor kicking game...
We certainly missed the players we had on the sidelines..And we came up against a team in form and full of confidence....

As for Silverwood worst ref in the comp period...

: Mon May 04, 2009 6:19 pm  

As a Rovers fan i can say it was not our best performance of the season and in the first half we were poor. Can't comment on Wire but you have obviously improved tenfold since early season.
Both sides had players unavailable but in Fozzard, Gene, Walker, Lovegrove and Cockayne ......all these would have have made the starting seventeen IMO so our list probably covers yours in this respect.

Had some good banter with a few Wire fans after the match and actually met the w@nkaer with the drum

Your support was first class and probably equal in numbers to ourselves as the most support in Edinburgh.....on sunday, anyway.

: Mon May 04, 2009 6:29 pm  

Bridge was poo. Not a halfback.