Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 9:38 am  

It’s great we are league top scorers given our attack is often not been the best but 139 against is a worry.

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 2:24 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

I feel a but bad for Marshall, super nice guy, I dont feel he's going to be a head coach for the majority of his career, he seems to be an excellent assistant coach.

New team bedding in or not you would expect a competent defensive performance, some of the tries they conceded last night (bargeovers) were shocking

Tough assessment that. Took Wigan all the way last week and we’re unlucky, and without the Mamo try on the stroke of half-time they were in the game.

I didn’t appreciate last night at the ground just who they had missing, but watching it back and seeing Joe Burgess, Sargonson, Brown in the stands, I looked at the squad list and Inu, Mossop, Ackers, Pauli Pauli, Addy and Greenwood all out as well. That is the bulk of their “better” players I would say.

They started poorly, and were never really going to win the game after that, but they stuck in there and caused us some problems. As I said, the Mamo breakaway killed their momentum, but the Lussick knock on for the Widdop try finished the game as a contest.

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 4:27 pm  

karetaker wrote:

It’s great we are league top scorers given our attack is often not been the best but 139 against is a worry.

It's maybe just a by-product of playing a more expansive style. When you try to be more flamboyant, you sometimes make errors and that leads to points conceded. Ken Sio's try last night came as a result of us trying to be more creative with our kicking game close to the line, for example. It cost us a try last night, but will gain us plenty more in the long run. We've all been demanding a more attacking style, so we can't complain. Of course, there are also some occasions where it's just inexcusable rank bad defence - like Lussick's embarrassing stroll-in last night. That needs looking at.

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 7:04 pm  

See Cas have left 4 out of their game against Leeds tonite.

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 7:30 pm  

Salford were poor and we capitalized on their errors. Htey then shot themselves in the foot with the 2 sin binnings.
But credit where it's due. We capitalized on all of that.
A worry for me was the way we let them back into the contest at 18 nil up. Typical Warrington.
And Toby King still has a lot to work on in my view. He's got great confidence at the moment and played well in the main but the awful pass (to Currrie or Lineham) when we were 18-0 up when the inside ball to Widdop was the easier and better option makes me think he needs to make sure his feet are grounded and that he doesn't get carried away with the media hype about him .

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 7:47 pm  

They're not robots, for heavens sake. So, he made the wrong pass last night. Lomax threw the ball into the crowd tonight.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 7:55 pm  

Douglas Black wrote:

They're not robots, for heavens sake. So, he made the wrong pass last night. Lomax threw the ball into the crowd tonight.

I think its a fair point, he had 2 support runners, he chose the harder option in terms of being awkward to pass to

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 8:07 pm  

To be fair he had just signed a new contract for (presumably) a lot more money, the lad was probably giddy (judging by his interview).

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Fri May 28, 2021 8:12 pm  

Yeah, I don't disagree it was the wrong choice but players make wrong choices and mistakes in every match.

Re: Tonight’s match v Salford : Sat May 29, 2021 8:38 am  

I thought we saw good creativity with ball in hand, on both sides of the pitch. I'm with Captain H on the chase from Hill (and Charnley), who did his best and restricted Sio to the corner. Even though Livett kicked the goal and they got no reward in points terms for the effort, it's a commendable sign of good attitude.

Thought Walker had terrific 80 minutes, and liked the way he feigned going back inside to then switch and make yards on the short side. Quality of the opposition excepted, other than the first half against Huddersfield, were building up a bit of momentum and confidence.