Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 1:16 pm  

I think a lot of teams would have faded in the last few minutes. It was hot watching in the shade so it must have been nearly unbearable on the pitch

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Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 1:37 pm  

The thing is Miller looks worse because he goes in for the tackle and sometimes gets bounced.
Mathers, Sammut, Hall and sometimes Owen would have dodged the tackle.
Result is the same but I prefer Miller's attitude

Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 2:42 pm  

That's bang on Hall would be lagging across the field with no intention of making the tackle. At least you get some kind of effort from Miller

Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:43 pm  

PopTart wrote:

The thing is Miller looks worse because he goes in for the tackle and sometimes gets bounced.
Mathers, Sammut, Hall and sometimes Owen would have dodged the tackle.
Result is the same but I prefer Miller's attitude

Now I think the lad is probably taking a bit of unfair stick, and I can see why he has been put at full back given the balance of the squad, but that is a pee poor rose tinted view on his ability in that position imo. He's never been a full back he's poor under the high ball and can't tackle. Those 2 attributes are all a Wakey full back needs

Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:01 pm  

Schunter wrote:

Now I think the lad is probably taking a bit of unfair stick, and I can see why he has been put at full back given the balance of the squad, but that is a pee poor rose tinted view on his ability in that position imo. He's never been a full back he's poor under the high ball and can't tackle. Those 2 attributes are all a Wakey full back needs

He's been pretty good under the high ball IMHO.

Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:23 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

He's been pretty good under the high ball IMHO.

We'll have to disagree. He lets the ball bounce for a start. He's pathetic one on one but to be fair he is a half back I accept that albeit it doesn't change the fact.

Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:34 pm  

TBH I think Miller has played his best games for us at FB, even though he aint no full back. Defence is weak due to his size but I don't think you can knock his enthusiasm and made some good breaks away from our line, takes a bit of a battering at times.

Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:54 pm  

Only just watched the last half an hour, due to having to work yesterday. Overall I thought it was a really good performance and a massive contrast to anything else we have seen for ages. The attitude of the players was totally different and actually looked like they wanted to be out there competing.

Play like that every week and we will fly through the middle 8 without too many problems, and pick up a few wins beforehand.

Perhaps the tide is turning ?

Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:22 pm  

Just finished watching the game and it was 'tired decision making' at crucial times late on.
McShanes nothing grubber and Millers pass to Lynn, who then got pushed into touch, leading to a Catalans try.
Miller looked lively at FB and as someone previously said, supplied some decent attacking passes.
Couldn't do anything about the Pelissier try.
Annakin ran hard and straight.
Just got caught out wide late on, when Johnstone got sucked in to allow big winger to skin him and Owen going 'walkabout' for Andersons try.
I'm sure BS will let them know what he can praise and what he can criticise.
11 days to get more cohesive for when Hull arrive on the 1st July.

Re: Catalan vs Wakefield : Mon Jun 22, 2015 12:47 pm  

Just got back from Perpignan (well 4.30 this morning) and just want to say that
Wakefield were fantastic on Saturday and the final score certainly flattered Les Catalan.

It was 32 degrees over there at kick of and still 28 degrees walking back after the game.

The game turned on McShanes failed grubber and the 2 disallowed tries.

Apart from the last 10 minutes (which seemed more like 15) We took the game to the opposition and dominated
30 minutes of the second half.

Ok, we did need to put some more points on the board (and may well have done so but for Mr Allibert) but the improvement
is there for all to see and I'm actually looking forward to our next game for the first time this season.

Come on Trin !