Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 11:45 am  

Everyone will have their own opinion on Handforth but how will having a thread title calling him "absolute crap" help him or the team play better?

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 11:54 am  

Maybe Nat can change the headline if he's found his dummy.

[Nat (Rugby_Aholic)]

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 12:12 pm  

No reason to change it. In my opinion he was absolute crap yesterday. If your pack is getting beaten you get the ball in your hands and run at the line to try and make something happen. Yes everybody has off days but I haven't seen anything from him all season apart from a good few kicks and a lot of arm waving. One play summed him up yesterday; Penky took the ball in close to their line and managed to create a sizeable gap, he then picked out Handforth with the pass, did Handforth go for the gap? No, he dropped it off to Robinson to do instead, by the time he had done that the gap had closed enough for them to tackle him.

He is not an upgrade over Jones or Beswick (on the rare occasion he played HB) and defo not an upgrade over Blacky. The game was there to be won, our entire team failed to do that, but winning close games is in a half backs job description, just how many times did Blacky, Branighan or Holroyd do it for us in the last few years. I hope to be proved wrong, but that will only be done on the field. I shall purchase the Fev DVD to see it that changes my opinion of him!

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 12:27 pm  

save thi sen a fiver Nat.
Handforth did NOT have the awesome game some suggested at Fev. He was ok tand there it ends. The fact that runners from all over the park were strolling up the field without a hand being laid on them was not Handforth's doing. Chucking interceptions for full lengthers was NOT Handforth's doing. Leaving gaps for the fat lads to run into and score like stand offs was not Handforth's doing.
I know I have a downer on Handforth and (unlike the Batley brethren) haven't seen anything since he left us to change my mind. BUT, objectively speaking, Handforth was ok in Fax's romp at our gaff. Nowt more than that.

As you know I don't like making predictions cos it can all so oft bite you on the @r_se. But I know I'm not the only one who feels that the half back at Fax are too inconsistent and may (That's MAY) be costly in the final analysis. We will see!

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 12:28 pm  

So that's a no then. Great boost for his confidence. Great support Nat - well done.

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 12:30 pm  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

Sick of excuses like that; we were in their 20 as many times as they were in ours in the 2nd half. They scored twice and got a penalty. We scored once. That is not the fault of the forwards.

What does last week have to do with today's performance?

Don't understand some of this quote......didn't we score two tries and one conversion in the second half and Batley score one try plus a conversion, two penalties and a drop goal?

[Nat (Rugby_Aholic)]

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 12:32 pm  

littlerich wrote:

So that's a no then. Great boost for his confidence. Great support Nat - well done.

If he needs me to boost his confidence then he has much bigger issues to attend to.

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 12:34 pm  

I don't mind Nat's assessment - he's entitled to his opinion but the title of the thread is uncalled for. How would he like it if he had a bad day at work and his colleagues called him absolute crap? No need for it.

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 12:41 pm  

littlerich wrote:

I don't mind Nat's assessment - he's entitled to his opinion but the title of the thread is uncalled for. How would he like it if he had a bad day at work and his colleagues called him absolute crap? No need for it.

Agree with this. He wasnt even our worse player on the day, in fact i thought he was far from it so to single him out is just plain wrong.

I think its funny that people even bother comparing him to Black, and i guess those that do dont really know that much about Rugby League. Black did nothing yesterday apart from about 5 minutes in the game.

I think people need to get a grip, its a tough league and yes we probably should have won yesterday which after not playing that well shows theres a lot of potential in the team and we wont be the only team to go to Batley and lose this season just the same as any team can go anywhere and pick up wins like we have done at probably the two toughest places to go Sheffield and Fev. We will be there or there abouts.

Re: Handforth - Absolute crap! : Mon May 21, 2012 12:46 pm  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

Agree with this. He wasnt even our worse player on the day, in fact i thought he was far from it so to single him out is just plain wrong.

I think its funny that people even bother comparing him to Black, and i guess those that do dont really know that much about Rugby League. Black did nothing yesterday apart from about 5 minutes in the game.

I think people need to get a grip, its a tough league and yes we probably should have won yesterday which after not playing that well shows theres a lot of potential in the team and we wont be the only team to go to Batley and lose this season just the same as any team can go anywhere and pick up wins like we have done at probably the two toughest places to go Sheffield and Fev. We will be there or there abouts.

I'm trawling through the threads now to find Nat's assessment of Handforth in the game against Dewsbury. I can't seem to find it