: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:56 pm  

Agree with the Durbin comment.He seemed to add pace to the game.Good player in my opinion.
Hobson got to watch that temper again though.

Leigh didnt even start to play until 20 minutes to the end.POOR

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:15 pm  

Lemon wrote:

Not a good performance today, i feel Donlan is wasted in the centre. Our defence out wide was shocking.
Going forward we looked clueless at times,i dont think anyone was willing to work off the ball. I thought Jock did ok but we have got to play Durbin in somewhere!!! we looked better when he was on the field.


Why did we have a Halifax player doing all the half time presentations

Bout time that pitch had a quality player on it.

batley score : Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:19 pm  

our right hand side were rubbish Batley were faster than us and were also cleverer than us I had a sinking feeling when I saw Batley warming up

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:23 pm  

How did McGilvray go on the wing for batley? He is a Giants youngster on loan to the Bulldogs.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:25 pm  

Full credit to Batley, they wanted it more and showed far more ingenuity, guile, strength and pace than we could hope for on that form. We just couldn't cope with them out wide, very impressive performance from the Dogs.

As for Leyth, utter bobbins. Poorly organised defence, the (lack of) quality in the majority of last tackle plays was a joke and the forwards were far too soft down the middle; little wonder than Ridyard, Watson and, once he came on, Durbin had bugger all to build upon.

On the subject of Durbin, can't for the life of me understand why we wait until nearly the hour mark to bring him on, and even then I don't think it was clear whether he should have been at dummy half or Jock; was a good few occasions where they got in each others way in such a situation.

After getting lucky last week, this has got to be a big wake up call.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:27 pm  

McGilvary big fast and dangerous can we have him?

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:30 pm  

WHERESYERBALL wrote:

McGilvary big fast and dangerous can we have him?

he was playing football til a year ago. You can't have him...too many temptations that side of the Pennines!!

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:31 pm  

Need to start with Durbin....untill he come on we was clueless - best playmaker we have by a long way.
Cant understand why we wait till the hour mark before we bring him on.....if we had brought him on after 20 mins - think we would have won it TBH.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:36 pm  

leytherjay wrote:

Need to start with Durbin....untill he come on we was clueless - best playmaker we have by a long way.
Cant understand why we wait till the hour mark before we bring him on.....if we had brought him on after 20 mins - think we would have won it TBH.

Unless he can do the tackling of three players, I don't think he'd have made too much difference.

: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:41 pm  

Matt look at how much our attack changed when Durbin come on...... we played with a lot moe hunger and passion.............the game was lost down Maden wing cos he couldnt tackle and fell for some stupid dummy passes - he played well once Durbin was directing play.