Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:41 am  

warrior1872 wrote:

I loved Gene Miles proper class KPP reminds me of Barry John Mather with his ball handling abilities

I dont remember Mather having good hands

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:42 am  

Phuzzy wrote:

I believe he has decent speed, particularly when he's in his stride, but I'm sure one of the regular A team watchers could give us a better idea. Over to you Rogues..

On a more general point though, I'm not sure pace, or lack of it, would be the be all and end all anyway. As you say, a speedy winger as a partner coupled with his ability to get the ball away could be devastating. I may be remembering through rose tinted glasses a little but I seem to remember a good amount of damage being done with Miles basically standing still, just by virtue of his ability to get his arms free and slip an accurate offload.

hed get the ball away where noone else could, was fantastic at it

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:02 pm  

Pieman wrote:

I dont remember Mather having good hands

Obviously not to the level of Gene Miles but he wasn't the worst either

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Sun Aug 29, 2021 9:48 am  

Is he carrying a knock, or is it just them the number of consecutive SL appearances, that have reduced his impact in recent games?

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Sun Aug 29, 2021 10:05 am  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

Is he carrying a knock, or is it just them the number of consecutive SL appearances, that have reduced his impact in recent games?

Total lack of service is the issue, nothing more.

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Sun Aug 29, 2021 10:26 am  

Has he been told not to offload?

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Sun Aug 29, 2021 11:37 am  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

Is he carrying a knock, or is it just them the number of consecutive SL appearances, that have reduced his impact in recent games?

Wouldn’t be surprised if he was and still being selected to play. Lam has form for that.

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:00 pm  

Another to file under the ‘impossible to judge their form’ playing under this coach. An extremely promising start has been followed by a lad looking in need of a rest but young forwards don’t get rests here under Lam. Lam is that good a coach in his own mind that he goes against the usual grain of easing young forwards in, whilst being more bold with young backs and instead flogs young forwards to breaking point and refuses to give young backs a shot, instead preferring to play 3 or 4 players out of position to avoid it.

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:29 pm  

100% Warrior wrote:

Wouldn’t be surprised if he was and still being selected to play. Lam has form for that.

You only need to look at his handling of O'Neill...

Whilst Saints and possibly Leeds are better sides than Cas, you won't find a more hostile place to play than Cas away. I just can't fathom why he'd pick this game for him to come back, especially if he'd been previously dropped.

Re: Kai Pearce Paul : Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:46 pm  

Tomorrow’s game is a terrifying prospect. We struggle at Cas at the best of times and we go in to it with Cas flying and us playing our worst rugby in 15 years. If we stay within 20-30 points of them we’ll have done ok.