[JTB]

Harlequins Matchday Chat - Category 3 and lower fans : Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:37 pm  

Well I'll start us off. Think they'll get battered today me, bet he doesn't pick Sam etc

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:38 pm  

I can't be arsed going cos I think they won't win. And it's a long way etc etc...

[JTB]

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:39 pm  

Disregarding my first post, for some reason the last 3 weeks debacles have been brushed to one side in my mind and I woke up this morning feeling that we'd win and win quite well. I've little to back this up except I think he'll have to throw Tomkins in and the enthusiasm of him, Ainscough etc has got to begin to rub off on the plodders. Thoughts?

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:40 pm  

It's a long way to go just to sit in the cold

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:41 pm  

JTB wrote:

Disregarding my first post, for some reason the last 3 weeks debacles have been brushed to one side in my mind and I woke up this morning feeling that we'd win and win quite well. I've little to back this up except I think he'll have to throw Tomkins in and the enthusiasm of him, Ainscough etc has got to begin to rub off on the plodders. Thoughts?

I really do think we'll win today, no idea why i'm so confident about it though.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:43 pm  

saturday nite fever wrote:

I really do think we'll win today, no idea why i'm so confident about it though.

perhaps we're all thinking (or wishing, perhaps) that Saints and Wire's losses might spur the players on, even if the fans' dissatisfaction doesn't.

Slightly deeper, though, I couldn't understand a lot of the criticism from last week. We played some good rugby in parts, threw the ball about, and did plenty offloads. It was our defence that let us down.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:45 pm  

Ditto, i felt we played better than we had done in previous games (although being a category 3 fan i hadn't been to hull so can't comment on that performance). Would have won if we'd kicked those goals

[JTB]

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:46 pm  

ROBINSON wrote:

perhaps we're all thinking (or wishing, perhaps) that Saints and Wire's losses might spur the players on, even if the fans' dissatisfaction doesn't.

Slightly deeper, though, I couldn't understand a lot of the criticism from last week. We played some good rugby in parts, threw the ball about, and did plenty offloads. It was our defence that let us down.

I'd agree with you on that, it was a marked improvement in attack although there's still a way to go. End of the day 2 kicks go over and they'd have gone on to win and been clapped off by the booers. I honestly hope they've been hitting tackling shields until they vomit this week though.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:46 pm  

saturday nite fever wrote:

Ditto, i felt we played better than we had done in previous games (although being a category 3 fan i hadn't been to hull so can't comment on that performance). Would have won if we'd kicked those goals

Yes, but we didn't, and we lost. We can moan about goalkicks all we want, but the fact is, we let in too many points ourselves, through sloppy defending.

And that's most unlike a Brian Noble side.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:48 pm  

True, but the point i was making is that our attack wasn't as bad as people were making out because we did score the tries. Ok so the attack at times was clueless and defense was shocking but it wasn't all bad, there were small positives