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Re: York Away : Sun Feb 18, 2018 9:50 pm  
Massive shoutout to York for the promotion of this game. A lot of clubs including ourselves could take note if this! Fantastic that we helped York break the record home attendance too!
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:55 am  
Exciting game.Our defence needs tightening,we got away with it yesterday.Overall a good effort and it was a good advert for the division.Keyes kicked well under great pressure.
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:43 am  
One aspect that's probably worth noting, after all the pre-season talk about how matches would be a grub-fest, with inexperienced refs failing to protect the players - the ref actually did a really decent job of keeping the game flowing.

There were surprisingly few penalties for such a high intensity game, and very little rough stuff. Both teams deserve credit for that as well, but I though the referee had a very good game as well.

The fact that he had the bottle to award a penalty for offside in the 83rd minute was obviously a bonus 8)
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:03 am  
Agreed the ref had a good game but clearly was helped by the attitude of both teams who both clearly came to play rugby. He missed the odd situation but all in all one of the better performances by an official. The Bulls never say die attitude was for me summed up in the last minute when Sam Hallas(I think) made tremendous yards to block a drop goal attempt which had it been successful would have won the game for York. Instead the ball went upfield and the rest is history.COYB
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:03 am  
My main thought is that we didn't play all that well but won the points, which is, if we are to believe the clichés the sign of a good team. York, coulda shoulda woulda but didn't.

York's offloading game caused us no end of problems, whilst our more conservative playbook, meant we often struggled to make ground on our sets. I guess we knew JK was a 'steady as she goes' coach but sometimes it's necessary to play a bit more 'off the cuff, imo'. Whilst we struggled to stop York moving forward they, safe in them knowldege that we were unlikely to make any fancy off-loads, were free to let their defenders get set in the line defence without worrying. I guess there is a happy medium and York seemed nearer to it than us, to be honest.

I'd like to Moss's touchdown again. Putting the ball down was the last thing he did and his legs were already down nearer the touchline than the ball, against that I thought York were a bit unlucky with the knock on over the line, certainly from my view I'd have given that, though the ref was looking from almost directly opposite and came up with a different view. It's a game of verty small margins at times. Oh, and Joe Keyes was superb, can't wait tom see him and Chissy together.
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:25 am  
I thought the Moss try and the disallowed York try in the first half were both marginal and could’ve gone either way. The one in the second half was 100m away and I haven’t a clue whether it was a try or not. I think York were a bit unlucky and a draw might have been a fairer reflection of the game but it’s been so long since we had a bit of luck I think we’re due a break.

I agree that the York offloads were a problem but our goal line defence was great especially in the run up to halftime when they threw the kitchen sink at us. The highlights for me were Keyes nerveless kicking, the break he made to set up Minchella and the Hallas charge-down. Crossley led the pack very well and I was impressed with Garside’s ability to catch some very tricky drop outs and kick offs.

Going forward I think we can be a lot more slick with our ball movement and it’d be nice to see us try the odd offload too. Chisholm coming back soon should help.

It was great to see the reaction after the win yesterday but that was just game one. There are a lot of tough games ahead against some teams that will try anything to put us off our game. York played the game hard but fair and will be gunning for us in the return. The likes of Doncaster, Keighley, Hunslet and the Cumbrian sides will be very tough.
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:28 am  
Altogether a good result, I don't think we will have a stronger test this year away from home. Okay there were things to put right and most of them have been outlined here. But lets not forget this is very much a new team, once again without our number one half back pairing. Someone mentioned playing off the cuff, well, our off the cuff man is still not out there.

My major concern is that our pack still looks like it can be outmuscled. The little barrel shaped prop ran harder and caused more trouble than any of our forwards (Crossley apart) I think he did at least three stints, and was a handful everytime.

Just glad we got the points as I went more in hope than expectation.
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:40 pm  
As mentioned lack of line speed and offloads caused us the most problems. Personally thought we were under the kosh for 50 mins of the game. Our brightest spells came with the introduction of Pickersgill, Pelts and Vila Halafihi, around 15 mins each side of half time.

Gibson also had a good game. Be good to get Oakes back too because he's a real wingers centre.
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:49 pm  
What an entertaining afternoon that was. Did the better team lose?
Really enjoyed it and of course winning like that made it better.
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Re: York Away : Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:22 pm  
roger daly wrote:
What an entertaining afternoon that was. Did the better team lose?
Really enjoyed it and of course winning like that made it better.


I would say yes.
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