Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:34 pm  

Game over!!
Got a feeling going to be a long season

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:35 pm  

jonh wrote:

I’m not digging he was out only back making meters in the first half.

I enjoy the fact you were waiting for me to comment by the way. Seems like I’m living rent free in your head.

In regards the rest of the game. Very poor. Getting bullied all over the park and our only response is to give away niggling penalties.

Great defensive effort this far in the second half by King, trying to offload in his carry though has really hurt us.

And that's four with the step inside.

Enough said really. It's Desi Williams level of bad.

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:39 pm  

Desi went alright on his debut IIRC.

Was the week after when he had a shocker.

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:48 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

And that's four with the step inside.

Enough said really. It's Desi Williams level of bad.

So he defended numerous overlaps due to us having 12 on the field and they eventually score one and it’s his fault!

No mention of him closing down the overlaps or the try saver that got us back in the game.

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:48 pm  

Always feared for us today and it’s pretty much gone as expected. We’ll be fine but they have to learn the lesson.

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:48 pm  

There’s no credibility for anyone saying King will be any good for us.

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:52 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Desi went alright on his debut IIRC.

Was the week after when he had a shocker.

Well that's something for King to aim for isn't it. That's his level,. undoubtedly.

Completely unacceptable today, but that's what happens when your recruitment is lead by Radders.

3 quota lads not in the squad.
Signing a centre notorious for not being able to defend.
Not replacing a marquee player in Bateman.

For anyone instead, look at the Leeds board and see how successful history says teams are that don't win their 1st game.

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:53 pm  

So we've lost in round 1 and the season is over?

That'll save me a few quid I suppose.

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:58 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

So we've lost in round 1 and the season is over?

That'll save me a few quid I suppose.

We might buck the trend, all I was saying is that in the history of SL - only one team has lost game one and won SL.

Do we just ignore that's a thing?

Re: Squad for HKR Saturday : Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:59 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

3 quota lads not in the squad.

I’m not going to go overboard on a poor first performance because I didn’t expect much and these things happen but that point is a huge issue for me. Having one quota ‘squad’ player is not great, two is poor and three is scandalous really. Look at HKR today. Now I’m not saying I want their overseas players but they’ve got 7 and all 7 play in the game and the majority make a big impact in it. There can’t be many, if any other clubs who have 3 overseas players seemingly not in their first choice 17.