Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 2:00 pm  

For all Olpherts blunders he usually makes metres going forward and has a try in him too. Tindall just does not look up to scratch for a good SL club

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 2:36 pm  

RAPIDO wrote:

My beef is he is not a patch on the winger we let go.

Briscoe?

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 2:50 pm  

I'm actually not too disheartened by that loss, as if Newman makes that pass, we win the game and it's a completely different feeling. We showed great intensity in the first half, but dropped when Holroyd was off the pitch.

Losing to a top four team within four points it's acceptable providing we can build from there.

From the second half the week before, you can see where Smith wants them to play. Still need to be more direct in my view, but the better weather seems to be helping us. If we had more pace at FB or halfback, we'd begin to look even better.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 2:54 pm  

christopher wrote:

Ironically I thought we were the best we have been in 2005 when we didn’t win anything (bar WCC) we were absolutely awesome that year.

2004 we were very good.

2005 we were practically untouchable and blew teams away left right and centre and yet we won nowt.

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 3:10 pm  

leedsbarmyarmy wrote:

Briscoe?

Yes. Every time the ball was kicked to one of our wingers I was nervous I never got that feeling with Briscoe.

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 3:13 pm  

we won nothing in 05 because smith flogged tge squad in training every day. couple of players told me they had nothing left come the GF.

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 4:06 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

we won nothing in 05 because smith flogged tge squad in training every day. couple of players told me they had nothing left come the GF.

Was that the year the three teams that did win something all broke the cap ?. Or am I misremembering ?

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 4:46 pm  

RAPIDO wrote:

Yes. Every time the ball was kicked to one of our wingers I was nervous I never got that feeling with Briscoe.

Briscoe was just as bad under the high ball and was prone to an error too, remember when he dropped it on his own line against Cats, last min in the play offs?

He was on a downward curve for a few years and seemed to have no confidence in himself, he seems to be playing this year tho by looks of it

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 5:06 pm  

briscoe was a good servant to leeds but the time had come to replace him.


but not with olpherts

Re: CC Wigan at Home : Mon May 22, 2023 7:01 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

briscoe was a good servant to leeds but the time had come to replace him.


but not with olpherts

Correct ,
It is a waste of salary cap and he will not be on peanuts