Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Wed Aug 24, 2016 12:30 am  

Not so cleaver in defence is he..

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Wed Aug 24, 2016 12:38 am  

atomic wrote:

Not so cleaver in defence is he..

Its clever. Unlike you, clearly.

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Wed Aug 24, 2016 2:28 am  

atomic wrote:

Not so cleaver in defence is he..

Tell that to your next opponents HKR, who have a prop out for the rest of the year and he delivered a great crunching tackle on him.

Speaking of next opponents, shouldn't you be hanging around the HKR or even Hudds boards seen as though you play them before you play us. In fact by the time you play us, if you can beat one of those aforementioned teams then our game probably won't mean much as we could both be qualified by the final week.

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:53 am  

Barrie's Glass Eye wrote:

Agree Tad, he can carry a ball but that's about it. Decent offload.

Can he tackle, no not really, can he run lines, no, is he able to put up with the constant beating you get in the pack as it is a completely different type of fitness.

Hall has at most half the skill set I'd want to see from a backrower.

Yep, why take a World class winger and make him a run of the mill back rower?

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Wed Aug 24, 2016 11:55 pm  

If anything the modern game suits finding tall second rowers with a bit of pace and looking to make them wingers, not the other way round.

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:41 pm  

Biff Tannen wrote:

Yep, why take a World class winger and make him a run of the mill back rower?

Not so sure we can call him "world class" anymore. Hard to remember the last "world class" thing he has done.

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:52 pm  

He might not be world class anymore, but I wouldn't take any other SL winger over him. There's a lot play every week who are worse than Hall in the NRL too.

Imo of course.

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:54 pm  

Cyprusexile wrote:

Not so sure we can call him "world class" anymore. Hard to remember the last "world class" thing he has done.

The way he brought the ball back (along with Briscoe) last season was world class.

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:41 pm  

Him wrote:

The way he brought the ball back (along with Briscoe) last season was world class.

That was a year ago - a year is a long time in sport - ask Leeds Rhinos

Re: SLQ RD3 - London A. : Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:47 pm  

DHM wrote:

Thought Moon was anonymous in the halves on Saturday. On a day with swirling high winds the ball should have gone high in the air far more often on 5th tackle but we kicked poorly, Moon in particular looked like a rabbit in the headlights every time he got the ball on the last.
Keinhorst played very well at centre though so might be worth seen my if Moon can settle at 6. I think with a good 7 he might work.

The same issues exist though. Our defence up the middle is great head on but very slow to turn or cover sideways. Big holes. Segeyaro was very quiet and I was not impressed with him Saturday. I do agree with some comments from other clubs posters, a very large percentage of his passes from dummy half were forward - luckily they were all very short pops and not penalised.
We played very, very close to the ruck so not sure what his longer pass is like or how clever he is near the opponents line. His option as a kicker is welcome.
Near the opponents line we look hopeless.

Moon at 6 is a non runner for me - it didn't work in the NRL and it won't work in SL he runs far too diagonally all the time