Re: Keighley (H) : Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:52 pm  

It was a wierd one for me I felt certain players individually played very well the halves seemed fluid and some of the tries were great but respect for ball security and possession was disgraceful tbf.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:04 am  

Was a strange one for me.

I sat after 55 mins thinking how bored I was, how crap the team were playing, wondering if they actually trained together at all, do they smear their fingers with Lurpak before taking the field, why are they prone to the most SPECTACULAR brain farts, why the hell do I bother coming to watch etc...

Left the ground feeling lower than when we were dumped from SL.

Then you see the press conf reaction and wonder what the hell's going on? Work on attack? I don't think we completed more than 2 sets in the first half (though granted I had turned to the phone for entertainment so may have missed one of the other sets completed). It needs more than work...

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:15 am  

To be fair, all the press conferences say the same thing after the game

[Bullseye]

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:46 am  

HalifaxCougar wrote:

Another helping hand for the Newco with the red card. Always an uphill battle after that.

Few points:

As no one replied to the on the day cost I ended up watching the video and in doing so you did your club out of cash.
The guys on the video were more interested in the game at Workington.
The ground looked empty is it time to move to park avenue?

If York win the league is this another Leicester considering your budget will be 10* the rest of the league?

All the best three York wins and Newco bottle the play offs please.

[Bullseye]

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:49 am  

Positives – Thought Egodo was excellent paired with Ryan. Lots of threat when the ball went their way. Some great attacking moments from Keyes and Lilley. Crossley and Peltier immense. Hallas had his best game in a while. Good to see Minchella scoring again. Good to see McNally back.

Negatives – Hopeless at taking the kickoffs with at least 5 being gifted to the opposition. Should have got at least 70 against 12 men that offered next to nothing in attack. Are Gibson and Garside under orders never to pass? Too many unforced errors.

It was an awful spectacle again. Kear's point about the stoppages is well made. It seemed to go on forever and this needs to be addressed.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:18 pm  

On our drop outs we've started having loose laces on the ten yard line or a slight knock which means having to get treatment on the pitch. We're slowing the game down too when it suits.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:47 pm  

A bit of a strange game I thought. We were comfortable from the get go and keighley never looked like they would cause us much trouble. In truth they only give us a game in friendlies when we are not really trying...

The first half we dropped a lot of ball unnecessarily but as kear said we showed up in defence to make up for the errors. Second half we scored some lovely try’s and ran out comfortable winners but the atmosphere and performance for me lacked something. I think that something is that basically we know we are in the playoffs and it’s a waiting game now.

Interesting to hear from Chris what happened with the ‘punch’. The keighley player was determined to start something as shown with the penalty he gave away moments earlier. I watched the scrum down as I thought something else would happen then saw the touch judge run on and Elliot asking if he just saw that, which he obviously did. Did Elliot mention what actually happened? Red signalled a punch but I think most inthe stands missed it

[Bulliac]

Re: Keighley (H) : Tue Sep 04, 2018 6:52 am  

A punch in the scrum? Sounds like we're back to the 1950s.

Re: Keighley (H) : Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:05 am  

Elliot was packing down at blind side prop, maybe that’s another position for him, when the scrum broke Elliot and the Keighley player were still holding each other’s shirts and then he got a punch in the face. Luckily with it been the blind side the linesman had a clear view of it and did his job. When the play stopped I saw Elliot talking to the linesman, I thought he must of done something but he was just asking the linesman if he had seen it. On the way to the game I was telling him not to get involved in anything. My first thought was that he hadn’t bl00dy listened to me but maybe he still does

[Bullseye]

Re: Keighley (H) : Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:30 am  

Obviously your wise words sunk in Rodge.

It was good to see him and Keyes combine well again on the right.