: Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:07 am  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Well we shouldn't have to if you watched the game.

His passing was excellent in the first half, he was putting the players through the gaps with ease, his passing was opening Hudds up and they couldn't handle it. Some of the wide passes he threw were quality. Bridge is hardly an experienced centre, yet Briers made him look as good as Gleeson today.

Add to that he lead the side around the field well and controlled the game, he was excellent and saying all he done was '2 good kicks' is very ignorant, even for you.

he pulled off some bone crunching tackles, especially considering his size, briers is at the moment too good to replace imo

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:12 am  

As I said last week he is doing well, The angel on his right shoulder appears to be more of an influence than the devil on his other. If he can show the sort of maturity that he has in his last few games but for a consistent period then I will be over the moon. Our problem is playing without him. we sometimes look like we are playing with one arm tied behind our back.
The whole team has stepped up, One example was King making a tackle in the second half in their 20 where he just hung on to the player by his fingertips. that was typical of the determination to make the tackle shown by players like Grix and Briers.
I thought Monaghan was outstanding yesterday. It helps when you have willing runners as there is much more doubt in the defence.

The only problem that I could see was when Morley, Carvell and Monaghan came off we lost a bit of direction in defence. They nearly made us pay from a couple of gaps up the middle.

I remember Phil Clarke saying that to have any chance of competing in the play offs then your defence needs to leak no more than 20 points on average, encouraging to see that in the last couple of games we are heading in that direction

Hull KR will be a different proposition with a bit more creativity from Cooke and Dobson. It could be the game of the weekend this one and if we can keep them to 20 points i will be pleased, as long as we score 21 of course