[Chris71]

Re: Toulose next : Tue Apr 26, 2022 2:13 pm  

the cal train wrote:

Do what we did against Catalan and we’ll be fine. Get our forwards running hard and straight, kick for territory, and points will come. Without recognised halves we have to win by brute force.

Exactly this, run at them hard down the middle and kick in behind them and chase them down and make them have to work hard to make way out their own 10 or 20. We won’t have much flair with no Gale, Reynolds or McNamara but work hard with and more without the ball and we should be more than good enough to grind out a result.

Re: Toulose next : Tue Apr 26, 2022 2:17 pm  

I think it's a good game for Hookem to come in should we need him. Same for Walker or Barron. It's a shame Severs is hurt as we probably could do with spelling our backrowers a bit.

Week off afterwards though so the players can be asked to dig a bit deeper if required.

Re: Toulose next : Tue Apr 26, 2022 3:21 pm  

I felt when lovaduo was with McNamara in the halves he took on a more senior role and looked impressive but the last couple of games with gale v Warrington and Reynolds v Catalan he hasn't really done much in terms of taking the line on he has played really safe so for me get hookem with him and let joey play his natural attacking game and we should have enough

Re: Toulose next : Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:45 pm  

Woods1969 wrote:

I felt when lovaduo was with McNamara in the halves he took on a more senior role and looked impressive but the last couple of games with gale v Warrington and Reynolds v Catalan he hasn't really done much in terms of taking the line on he has played really safe so for me get hookem with him and let joey play his natural attacking game and we should have enough

Spot on but i think the whole team has been instructed to play basic rugby for the time being to try and cut out the errors and indiscipline.
Certainly worked against Catalan and we used our forwards well .
Think we can expect to see some Radford era displays going forward and using our forward power until we find a half back combination that works.
Now Taylor is back one change i would make is play Ligi Sao again in the second row so we can interchange Sao,Mau, and Lane otherwise we will burn them out.

Re: Toulose next : Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:27 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Spot on but i think the whole team has been instructed to play basic rugby for the time being to try and cut out the errors and indiscipline.
Certainly worked against Catalan and we used our forwards well .
Think we can expect to see some Radford era displays going forward and using our forward power until we find a half back combination that works.
Now Taylor is back one change i would make is play Ligi Sao again in the second row so we can interchange Sao,Mau, and Lane otherwise we will burn them out.

As much as I agree with you about rotating the back row, Ligi should stay at prop. He's lead our pack tremendously. For me he's one of the form props in SL right now.

Scott should be back soon. As will Griffin, its these 2 I'd look to shift into the 2nd row when they are back.

On the Radford era comments, we'd be dumb not to use the pack to our benefit. At times we do seem more patient under BH, when we go set for set against teams we look good. We always seemed to have an error or 5 in us under Radford.

If I'm being critical We've maybe got to be a bit more clinical, but it's finding that balance. I'd rather us play conservative and win like we did on Sunday than overplay and lose.

Re: Toulose next : Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:41 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Spot on but i think the whole team has been instructed to play basic rugby for the time being to try and cut out the errors and indiscipline.
Certainly worked against Catalan and we used our forwards well .
Think we can expect to see some Radford era displays going forward and using our forward power until we find a half back combination that works.
Now Taylor is back one change i would make is play Ligi Sao again in the second row so we can interchange Sao,Mau, and Lane otherwise we will burn them out.

Since scrums finally became an irrelevance over 30 years ago, I no longer see the difference between a Prop and a Second Row.

To me all props/second rows are interchangeable. Typically, they all make a drive in a set of six and all are involved in tackling.

It’s like what Billy Connelly says about Mexican Food, you can order whatever you like off the menu, but ultimately it’s just folded differently and tastes the same.

Re: Toulose next : Tue Apr 26, 2022 8:28 pm  

Hookem has to start for me - keep Connor at 1, Shaul on the wing and Houghton at 9. We're playing well now we're back to basics and any disruption would run the risk of undoing any of the good work. This needs to be a game where we keep it simple, play out the sets and hopefully the game takes care of itself.

Re: Toulose next : Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:09 pm  

Cardiff_05 wrote:

Hookem has to start for me - keep Connor at 1, Shaul on the wing and Houghton at 9. We're playing well now we're back to basics and any disruption would run the risk of undoing any of the good work. This needs to be a game where we keep it simple, play out the sets and hopefully the game takes care of itself.

I agree. We played well last Sunday. We should make minimal changes. Hookem and Wynne in. The rest stay unchanged.

Re: Toulose next : Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:43 am  

Rugby Raider wrote:

Since scrums finally became an irrelevance over 30 years ago, I no longer see the difference between a Prop and a Second Row.

To me all props/second rows are interchangeable. Typically, they all make a drive in a set of six and all are involved in tackling.

It’s like what Billy Connelly says about Mexican Food, you can order whatever you like off the menu, but ultimately it’s just folded differently and tastes the same.

Well every top level coach disagrees with you. Back row and front row remain different positions.

And Billy Connolly knows nothing about Mexican food.

Re: Toulose next : Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:57 am  

If Ligi has a minor AC joint issue he should be good to play. Payne Haas suffered a similar injury and isn't expecting to miss any games. The link explains it better The guy is well worth a follow if you've got twitter https://twitter.com/nrlphysio/status/15 ... _bX3g&s=19

If Ligi has a minor AC joint issue he should be good to play. Payne Haas suffered a similar injury and isn't expecting to miss any games. The link explains it better The guy is well worth a follow if you've got twitter https://twitter.com/nrlphysio/status/15 ... _bX3g&s=19