Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:11 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

You was the one was saying we should be patient and give him a chance.

He's played two games in unfamiliar conditions and in a team that's played two halves with twelve men. Let's at least give him until firmer grounds are here.

OK Captain will do
He is not a racehorse who you only run when the ground suits them
from what i have seen he will turn out to be another Kane Evans

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:45 pm  

bonaire wrote:

Especialy Ockunbor
starting to look like another Kane Evans

The early signs don't look that promising but it's a little unfair to write him off after a couple of games. It must be taken into account the big change in culture both on and off the field for NRL players. Better players than him have struggled to make an immediate impact.

What goes against him is even before he arrived are the comments from the majority of Bulldogs fans when he signed for us.

I fear that you may be right but let him get a few games under his belt before we can judge how good a signing he is.

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:24 pm  

We had our 5? Most experienced and highest earners missing Friday.
Truman, Carlos,Houghton,Pele,Ese.
6th player okunbor was taken off 2nd half, not sure what happened to him?
Lane, is struggling but so is most of the the squad.
He wasn’t the only player missing tackles, but they did give it a real dig.

We have by far the worst discipline in SL. Getting these players back and improving discipline.
Then lets see how Lane goes.

The clubs social media & coaching staff are happy enough with lane as they posted his Stats..

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:30 pm  

looks like Houghton is back sunday, really hope Smith keeps Brown at 9 and not moved back to 7


chance that Carlos may play too, but i won't hold my breath!

[Chris71]

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:06 pm  

boardwalkempire4 wrote:

We had our 5? Most experienced and highest earners missing Friday.
Truman, Carlos,Houghton,Pele,Ese.
6th player okunbor was taken off 2nd half, not sure what happened to him?
Lane, is struggling but so is most of the the squad.
He wasn’t the only player missing tackles, but they did give it a real dig.

We have by far the worst discipline in SL. Getting these players back and improving discipline.
Then lets see how Lane goes.

The clubs social media & coaching staff are happy enough with lane as they posted his Stats..

I appreciate what you’re saying in regards to Lane but in all fairness he has performed poorly for the last couple of seasons. It’s that reason that many have are rightly questioning/criticising him. It was even said by a number of us in the off season that he really needed to hit the ground running if he was in the 17 at the start of the season but he simply hasn’t regardless of anyone else’s performances.

As Bonaire has said many times our discipline has been and continues to be poor, Lane falls into the category of being one of our worst offenders.

Someone mentioned the word scapegoat but that is not something you can really say about Jordan as most comments whilst being critical are based on evidence over the past couple of seasons.
He is no longer a youngster and is now a more senior and experienced figure but for me we haven’t seen anything near the potential he showed when he broke into the first team.

As has been said I think it just shows the incompetence in terms of the contracts handed out in terms of length etc based on no more than average performances.

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:33 pm  

Expectations have got that low in parts of our fan base now that 'having a dig' is all that matters, you need to have a dig and also have ability... depressing times.

[Chris71]

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:42 pm  

Steve0 wrote:

Expectations have got that low in parts of our fan base now that 'having a dig' is all that matters, you need to have a dig and also have ability... depressing times.

Indeed

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:20 pm  

Have the Reserves got a game this weekend, as Roman Dawson has put a "Times Ticking" post on Instagram....unless he's playing against london??

[Mild Rover]

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:12 pm  

Hasbag wrote:

Thanks for reminding me I once thought he would go on to be captain

Easily done. Pessimism has protected me from it for a while but I was enthused by the signings of Willie Mason and Mike Ratu, which exploded and fizzled out, respectively. Mason was high risk but I still wonder… what if there hadn’t been that constitutional crisis in Tonga?

Who knows, Lane’s form might improve and he might find himself part of a stronger Hull team, next year.

Or even if he gets a few weeks out of the team so fans see it isn’t all his fault.

Re: London at home : Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:14 pm  

We all agree lane needs to be moved on. . But he's being picked and doing as much as he can. Of cause having a dig isn't all that matters. But whatever ability you have it's the first thing you need to do on a field. The kid isn't good enough at the top level . But has anybody on here played the game at a decent level?. Because if you have you will know players like him are always valued. It's ok watching it from the stands or in your armchair but it's a hard f ucking game believe me. Maybe why I'm always a more positive poster as I take my hat of to anybody who runs into that pitch