I do have some legitimate criticisms of the HKR game: RS obviously picked too small a side with Donno, Bentley and Goudemand and O’Connor all in the pack together. I said this before the game too but his selection didn’t surprise me.
Ruan played way too few minutes.
I thought Frawley’s kicking game was consistently too short and we failed to trouble their FB all match really.
I didn’t think Mom looked interested on a cold English February night in Hull on a terrible pitch. He needs to get himself more involved.
Lisone had a bad few minutes for sure.
Various other players including Bentley were giving away costly penalties and errors as usual - although as a Bentley critic I have to say he played better overall than I’ve seen for a long time.
Early season clunkiness accepted. m just not seeing green shoots of potential in this team or the way they're coached and will be amazed if we're anywhere close to the top 4/5 by that 8-10 game mark.
We are way too flat in attack when in the oppo 20, no better illustrated than when Edgell knocked on in the last quarter, at the point the ball reaches his hands, Martin, mom and Handley are all a good meter in front of him, even if Edgell had cought it, the move was dead, all 3 had literally taken themselves out of the game.
Early season, but that is Amature stuff, they need to be smarter and/or Smith needs to be identifying it and fixing it.
Can have all the ability in the world, but if your full left edge are getting their timing so wrong, it explains why we look inept in good ball, and why some are frustrated.
On a positive, there were a couple of times i liked the numbers advantage we created on the edges, we just took the wrong option each time.
After re watching, Donaldson cost us big time and you really have to question his value, all well and good being a character around the club, but when you are, small, pretty unathletic and offer Zero ball in hand, you need to be almost perfect in everything else to be of use, he was a long way off Thursday night with more than one stupid involvement.
I suspect Donno will get a ban. Let’s see how injuries and Miller shape up this week because we need an improvement against Cats.
Very frustrating how disrupted we are with injuries still. McDonnell and Holroyd among our best last year and Fus when fit is quality. Hudson we signed injured as a project but again, why didn’t we bring in a prop who could play?
If it was, it wasn’t down to Oledski, Martin, Smith, Ackers or Lisone who were all very good.
Indeed, we made far more many metres in the middle than Salford.
We didn’t against Hull KR (well, we did in the first half ) but then two of our forwards had brain explosions.
That was the worst conditions and game to go down to 12 for half of that second half, that’s what cost us the game, not structure or anything like that.
Our completion rate has also been very high im both games, id hazard a guess that its been higher than at any point in the last two years.
We are way too flat in attack when in the oppo 20, no better illustrated than when Edgell knocked on in the last quarter, at the point the ball reaches his hands, Martin, mom and Handley are all a good meter in front of him, even if Edgell had cought it, the move was dead, all 3 had literally taken themselves out of the game.
Early season, but that is Amature stuff, they need to be smarter and/or Smith needs to be identifying it and fixing it.
Can have all the ability in the world, but if your full left edge are getting their timing so wrong, it explains why we look inept in good ball, and why some are frustrated.
On a positive, there were a couple of times i liked the numbers advantage we created on the edges, we just took the wrong option each time.
After re watching, Donaldson cost us big time and you really have to question his value, all well and good being a character around the club, but when you are, small, pretty unathletic and offer Zero ball in hand, you need to be almost perfect in everything else to be of use, he was a long way off Thursday night with more than one stupid involvement.
If Donaldson does get a ban, and I'm sure he will, it's the perfect opportunity to draw a line in the sand with regards to his selection. Ruan and TNW should be given their chance and stuck with. They are both bigger, more skillful players and the only edge Donno has on them is experience. However if that experience is losing more games than you win that what is the point of it? I'd really like Smith to be a success but if he sticks with picking a player who isn't even average I'll have had enough.
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