Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 9:35 pm  

I'd be dropping Lino for Gale at the first opportunity.

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 9:36 pm  

Lurker wrote: I thought Dagger looked good tonight, our best player. I've not been impressed with Lino for a while, too slow, too predictable. Stupid not playing Gale tonight. Here's why

Lurker wrote: I thought Dagger looked good tonight, our best player. I've not been impressed with Lino for a while, too slow, too predictable. Stupid not playing Gale tonight. Here's why

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 9:38 pm  

Budgiezilla wrote:

I'd be dropping Lino for Gale at the first opportunity.

Lino playing very much like a stand off at the moment and forgetting about his job at half back. Personally I think Gale at 7 and Lino at 6 could work but Smith definitely earning the shirt at the moment so Gale/Smith is what he’ll probably go with.

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 9:42 pm  

The one thing that was clear from tonight is that we are not a team, even if we did offload the ball there was no one in support. I am sorry but the blame lays with the coach, I agree he does not have much to work with which is the club’s fault but he is incapable of getting the best out of them.

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 9:45 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

The one thing that was clear from tonight is that we are not a team, even if we did offload the ball there was no one in support. I am sorry but the blame lays with the coach, I agree he does not have much to work with which is the club’s fault but he is incapable of getting the best out of them.

Totally agree. This is a team sport, so I see no value in ever blaming an individual player for what is a wider issue. We don't know that he's not got much to work with, there are some fairly good players in the team which he just seems incapable of even getting the basics out of, and to add to that, he doesn't seem to push fitness, have any notable tactics, or any team building skills.

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 9:55 pm  

Well once again that was utterly dire. We offer nothing with the ball, Smiths promising game last week was obviously a flash in the pan as he was back to worse than useless again. Lino is having to play a game that doesn’t suit him and do it by himself, poor lad doesn’t stand a chance. The forwards were weak defensively, some of those attempts were awful. We’ve zero pace in the team, and whilst Dagger saved us more than once he offers nothing as a link man. Hood is about as sharp at dummy half as my old mum and Proctor is possibly the least value for money player in our history. We average 6 points a game. How Applegarth keeps his job i don’t know but it just stinks of the cheap option and accepting our fate and prepping for going with mainly kids next year. Trust me that won’t work in the championship either.

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 10:10 pm  

The reality is we have a team who are athletically inferior to the rest in the competition.

We lack pace, agility and strength.

Every team generally runs the same pattens the good teams execute these patterns quickly and at the line and the creative player more often than not picks the right option runner be it out of the back or pick up the line runner.

We execute slowly and more often than not pick the wrong option….which combined with the lack of athleticism is a sure fire recipe for the position in which we find ourselves.

I cannot remember leaving a game and feeling so deflated and accepting of our fate as I was leaving the ground tonight.

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 10:15 pm  

TimmySmith wrote:

Lino playing very much like a stand off at the moment and forgetting about his job at half back. Personally I think Gale at 7 and Lino at 6 could work but Smith definitely earning the shirt at the moment so Gale/Smith is what he’ll probably go with.

Smith is earning the shirt?? Wow is that’s some sort of
Suck joke? He’s by far the worst half back in the league and the club. I’d rather play my 11 year old at least he wouldn’t be kicking the ball on the second and third tackle nearly every time he gets it!

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 10:18 pm  

TimmySmith wrote:

Lino playing very much like a stand off at the moment and forgetting about his job at half back. Personally I think Gale at 7 and Lino at 6 could work but Smith definitely earning the shirt at the moment so Gale/Smith is what he’ll probably go with.

Lino is playing his natural game, he is a runner not a creative midfield general despite what we were told when he signed.

Gale needs to take up the midfield general role we have not been able to find since the days of Finn and Williams and just let Lino do his thing.

Re: Squad Vs Hull : Thu May 11, 2023 10:23 pm  

Schunter wrote:

Absolutely bored out of my mind for most of that. But I didn't really see anyone who wasn't trying. Proctor was trying it's just he's absolutley knackered after 5 minutes and plays the ball like a 98 year old. What I don't get is hasn't he played most of his career runnning onto the ball wider? if so why are we having him plow it up the middle?
We are clearly inhibited by extrmely low confidence because there were little patches where we played the ball at speed, got the ball wide at speed and actually ran on to the ball at speed. The problem is for the rest of the time everything is so laboured in both attack and defence that the opposition have it way too easy.
We can't change the squad the only thing we can change is the head coach. He's gotta go we still somehow have a tiny glimmer of hope because Cas are also gash, just not as gash as us at this point. Surely we wouldn't want him in charge next year after a season of such failure this, so why wait anyway?
I heard Gale had a groin injury, anyone else hear that?

Gale himself said it's a groin injury. P