Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Sun May 23, 2021 5:57 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

Tell you what I do like about widdop, he loves being on the end of an attacking kick from another play maker, we've missed that (as far as I can remember) since myler left

Yeah that kick back on the inside when we are in the opposition half does work well, especially into space and putting their fullback under pressure we looked dangerous when we tried that a couple times yesterday. Widdop has been exceptional this year, he really took that game by the scruff of the neck second half and looked like he wanted to prove a point. More of the same from Widdop, Ratchford and Austin please!

Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Sun May 23, 2021 6:05 pm  

fez1 wrote:

Thewliss is still learning. Ok he dropped a couple. It'll happen.
He's had a few games and will get a few more this year. Time for Lineham to come back in.
Prefer Clark at loose and Philbin coming off the bench.

Ratch has had a mixed season from what I've seen but he's still #1 full back at the club for me.
Mamo is right centre and the rest of the 13 picks itself.
If Inglis comes back from injury then it causes issues - surely if King can play left centre he should be able to play right centre too if he really is quality....., but iirc Shaun Kenny Dowall had a field day against him.
I'm disappointed that he wasn't right centre from the start of the season and worked on that during pre season.

Subs - perm 4 from 5 depending on the opposition
Akauola, Walker, Davis, Mulhern, Butler

Feel sorry for Robson, and would go so far as to include him in the above 5. I think he's good enough.

Lineham and Akauola (bench) back for me.

Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Sun May 23, 2021 7:28 pm  

Smiffy27 wrote:

Lineham and Akauola (bench) back for me.

Agree Thewlis with just one to many errors yesterday, time for Lineham to come back and hopefully stay off the naughty step

Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Sun May 23, 2021 7:32 pm  

fez1 wrote:

Thewliss is still learning. Ok he dropped a couple. It'll happen.
He's had a few games and will get a few more this year. Time for Lineham to come back in.
Prefer Clark at loose and Philbin coming off the bench.

Ratch has had a mixed season from what I've seen but he's still #1 full back at the club for me.
Mamo is right centre and the rest of the 13 picks itself.
If Inglis comes back from injury then it causes issues - surely if King can play left centre he should be able to play right centre too if he really is quality....., but iirc Shaun Kenny Dowall had a field day against him.
I'm disappointed that he wasn't right centre from the start of the season and worked on that during pre season.

Subs - perm 4 from 5 depending on the opposition
Akauola, Walker, Davis, Mulhern, Butler

Feel sorry for Robson, and would go so far as to include him in the above 5. I think he's good enough.

Toby King played right centre for Wire, until we signed Bryson Goodwin who also played right centre.

King was then only moved to left centre to allow Goodwin to play in his preferred position.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Sun May 23, 2021 7:51 pm  

Boss Hog wrote:

Toby King played right centre for Wire, until we signed Bryson Goodwin who also played right centre.

King was then only moved to left centre to allow Goodwin to play in his preferred position.

Not quite

Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Mon May 24, 2021 11:02 am  

Boss Hog wrote:

Toby King played right centre for Wire, until we signed Bryson Goodwin who also played right centre.

King was then only moved to left centre to allow Goodwin to play in his preferred position.

Toby King played right centre when Bryson Goodwin was here...he moved to left centre last season to accommodate Anthony Gelling.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Mon May 24, 2021 11:24 am  

Atkins was our incumbent left centre for nearly 9 years, he moved to the right for goodwin.

Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Mon May 24, 2021 11:24 am  

Atkins played for 8 years on the left until Goodwin came in then was moved to right centre but then quickly out of favour so King played on the right. Goodwin leaves and then King pops up on the left, inglis comes in and back onto the right.
I am sure King is equally suited to right or left but I do think that timing, good communication and understanding is key on the edges which takes a bit of time. It has taken the best part of 12 months for widdop, Currie and King to gain that understanding on the left.
One slight disappointment about Saturdays game was I thought that the last 10-12 mins of the game was an ideal opportunity to drop Thewlis to fullback for a little spell. Cas were never going to catch us and could have given Thewlis to have a spell to see what he could have done in attack seeing as we were all over them at the time.

Re: Today’s game v Cas. : Mon May 24, 2021 3:16 pm  

I remember Atkins' first game on the right. He did that crazy superman impression and got knocked into touch when he could have just slid over the line on the wet grass. That was in the days when Price used to get animated during games.