Re: Onto Cas : Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:34 pm  

ChrisA wrote:

Great last 50 mins, terrible opening 30. We do it all too often, we look like a different team. That said, the second half was a joy to watch.

Mean the ratio was better than the CC final

Re: Onto Cas : Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:57 pm  

ChrisA wrote:

Great last 50 mins, terrible opening 30. We do it all too often, we look like a different team. That said, the second half was a joy to watch.

Not necessarily aimed at you, but I think the strong start that we've had to the season makes people forget that we're less than a year into a 3 year project. Lots of players still developing their game - Byrne, Ellis, Smith, Field, Smithies etc.

We aren't going to string 80mins together for a while yet.

Re: Onto Cas : Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:07 pm  

Trainman wrote:

That was a good result a week after a cup win. The bench, particularly Mago, changed the game for us. Fonua helped, that was dumb.

We took a long time to get going but when we did there was a lot of good performances in there. One thing today showed is we have 2 top class full backs but neither are really a half. Smith ran the show for us.

More of the same from Mago please, much more direct which caused them problems.

Great summation.
I must admit I feared the worst before the game and when we went 12 points down I thought it was game over.
A brilliant second half response from all the team. Difficult to to highlight any individual as it was a great team effort
Glad for Miski. He looks a lot more comfortable now after his debut performance

Re: Onto Cas : Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:35 pm  

Can't see Thornley playing for a few weeks who will take the right centre.

Re: Onto Cas : Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:43 pm  

Ashton Bears wrote:

Can't see Thornley playing for a few weeks who will take the right centre.

Halsall short term, KPP long term.

Also the option of a back rower there but hopefully can avoid that.

Re: Onto Cas : Sat Jun 04, 2022 5:06 pm  

The 'fringe' players Miski,Isa + Partington were very good. French MOM for me

Re: Onto Cas : Sat Jun 04, 2022 5:21 pm  

Great result

Re: Onto Cas : Sat Jun 04, 2022 5:25 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Not necessarily aimed at you, but I think the strong start that we've had to the season makes people forget that we're less than a year into a 3 year project. Lots of players still developing their game - Byrne, Ellis, Smith, Field, Smithies etc.

We aren't going to string 80mins together for a while yet.

Yeah I understand, but that doesn't mean we don't state areas that we need to improve. We've dug ourselves out of a hole numerous times already, which in itself is great and shows belief and attitude. Needless to say that always won't be the case, and a bad start will cost us.

All that said, we were great for longer than we weren't today. Some great performances from players who needed to step up, Mago and Miski went very well IMO.

Re: Onto Cas : Sun Jun 05, 2022 8:00 am  

Great to see some real line speed coming off our line in the first half. Turned the game around from Mago's first offload in our 1st set.

French MoM for me.

Also nice to show we're not a one man team.

Re: Onto Cas : Sun Jun 05, 2022 8:29 am  

I was pretty concerned after the Huddersfield away game about French’s fitness but turns out a week on the ale has done him good!

Back to his best yesterday, have a look at the ground he covers to be in position to score off Marshall’s kick. Must have covered at least 50metres.

Brilliant to see