Average Performance : Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:22 pm  

We missed Fletcher and Kohe Love on one side and it showed, i thought Smith was excellent at hooker and Anthony Thackeray had a very good game. The rest showed some good touches at times and then we had poor old Scott Yates who had a shocker.


Wildbore is a fantastic attacking player but he is one selfish git, Duffy works his backside of but isnt really a loose forward but what can we do with the current injuries. Flynn was again good (why doesnt he back himself going around the fullback when he makes a break?)


Plenty of improvement left and we need some bodies back and oh boy do we need a big man up front but we say that most weeks.


Oh and Wildbore to start at fullback for Halifax.

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:29 pm  

1 Whitehaven 3 3 0 0 132 70 0 9
2 Widnes 3 2 0 1 112 44 1 7
3 Barrow 3 2 0 1 96 54 1 7
4 Halifax 2 2 0 0 50 38 0 6
5 Sheffield 3 1 0 2 60 63 2 5
6 Batley 3 1 1 1 62 82 0 5
7 Leigh 2 1 0 1 51 56 1 4
8 Featherstone 2 1 0 1 60 60 0 3
9 Gateshead 3 0 1 2 52 98 0 2
10 Toulouse 3 0 0 3 38 128 1 1
11 Doncaster 1 0 0 1 14 34 0 0

Re: Average Performance : Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:44 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

We missed Fletcher and Kohe Love on one side and it showed, i thought Smith was excellent at hooker and Anthony Thackeray had a very good game. The rest showed some good touches at times and then we had poor old Scott Yates who had a shocker.


Wildbore is a fantastic attacking player but he is one selfish git, Duffy works his backside of but isnt really a loose forward but what can we do with the current injuries. Flynn was again good (why doesnt he back himself going around the fullback when he makes a break?)


Plenty of improvement left and we need some bodies back and oh boy do we need a big man up front but we say that most weeks.


Oh and Wildbore to start at fullback for Halifax.

Average performance ???

Me thinks the Tetleys is kicking in
IMO it was a shocking performance and lacked heart in the first half.

We looked clueless first 50 mins too predictable and big Paddy fills me full of confidence when he collects the ball near our line .

Has he got some sort of a nervous twitch and has to pass the ball and invite the opposition to get it ??

Good player Wildbore but tries to impress too quickly with his game.

Far too light in the pack , Yates absolute nightmare of a game.
We looked nackered and nervous 1st 40 mins few daft mistakes and a bit too much 1 man rugby and bunching in parts.

Sorry to say but I`m baffled over the sudden drop in form .

Get rid of Cullen only joking by the way

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:52 pm  

If anyone thought that tonight was going to be an easy game then they are mistaken. I wouldnt say it was garbage, Yates let 2 of the sheffield scores in through his own stupid mistakes.



We still have plenty to work on but for me i did see some positives (one was challenging for high kicks)

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:57 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

If anyone thought that tonight was going to be an easy game then they are mistaken. I wouldnt say it was garbage, Yates let 2 of the sheffield scores in through his own stupid mistakes.



We still have plenty to work on but for me i did see some positives (one was challenging for high kicks)

What were the others V man ??

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:00 pm  

the ref does not understand the concept of the ball going back and the high shot on ostick was awful, but the ref played on.

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:03 pm  

one positive was we got 3 points and played badly.

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:04 pm  

buryhim11 wrote:

What were the others V man ??

Smith ran more from dummy half than he has all season.

Thackeray also had a good game (IMO) (Cullen starting him at 6)

our defence structure in terms of numbers in the tackle has improved (although one on one we are poor)


Im not making out it was a good performance im more picking bits out that i thought we improved on. With the pack the way it is currently and out first choice centre out it was always going to be a tough night.

: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:20 pm  

As ever I agree with Vikingman, word perfect.

: Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:49 am  

Gregory Peck wrote:

As ever I agree with Vikingman, word perfect.

Get a room

I think Smith had no option but to have a few runs from the play the ball due to our forwards leaving most of the gaining yards to Gaskell but it was a average performance from the pack.

I just hope all the pieces of the puzzle fit together soon and momentum will drive us forward resulting in clean crisp performance week in week out.

I`m sounding like Cullen