: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:06 pm  

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: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:57 am  

joe d saint wrote:

it just shows how much gardener relys on gidley's defence and try assists.
i think all so we sometimes rely on T.P a bit to much.

Of course he relies on Gidley's defence, every winger has to rely on his centre to make sure he's not isolated and left with 3 men to tackle. Ade's one on one defence is pretty good these days, miles better than it used to be, but he has to be in a one on one situation to use it. Leave him isolated and he (like other wingers) can't prevent a try. Defence isn't something you can do on your own

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:08 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

Saints were complacent.

I talked on our board today about how great sides like Saints get complacent once every few months whereas teams like ours get complacent every other week and think we've made our season on the back of a big win against an average side.

Unfortunatley i think we'll feel the backlash of this next weekend.

Indeed - the team turned up twice in the same game thinking that all they had to do was go through the motions. The first half was just pathetic, no excuses, they thought it was won before they kicked off.

Hopefully, Potter will give them a kicking this week. If Eastmond is fit, Long should be dropped. KC needs a rest, it was noticable for the first time ever that we dropped intensity when he was on the field, so Roby should start against Wigan.

Last time we played so badly (Cas away last year) we came back the following week and scored 50odd.

Re: D : Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:38 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Just what the merry hell has happened to our famed 'd'. We've gone from being as tight as Borat's mankini to being as sloppy as the second man in on a night out in Benidorm.

Tonight was appalling throughout, but the defensive patterns were shot to pieces. For the majority Bradford didn't even try anything elaborate, they just retreated back to basics as they fought their own demons, even within tonights game. Despite this they were still able to trot about 50 metres with ease and found it incredibly easy to score close to the line.

Do we put this all down to the lethargy Leeds are going through because it's already obvious the top 2 is sorted or is there something more to it?

i tell ya what!! lets get our squads together and we can put you back on track with ya defence and you could teach us how to attack??

: Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:40 am  

Harry Pinner wrote:

We lost tonight by just not doing the basics right;

- Completion rate was abysmal
- When we did manage to get to the last tackle nobody had a clue what to do (epitomised by going from attacking their line on 5th to handing the ball over inside our own half one tackle later)
- Constant penalties and knock ons in our own half
- Defence totally disorganised

sure you wernt at headingley on friday????

: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:05 pm  

Simple really.

Too many players out/ rested

Wellens, Gardner, Dean, Gilmour, Meli, Pryce, Long, Graham, Cunningham, Hargreaves, Wilkin, Flannery, Clough.
Replacements: Wheeler, Roby, Fa'asavalu, Ashurst.

3 players who barely got a look in in the team last season and no
TP, Gidley and Cayless. Long and KC having their worst games for years. Long kicked 3/6 while bradford 5/6.

We certainly need to resolve the kicking game. 50% success and not finding touch is pretty awful. If Long is not upto kicking we really should be looking at bringing someone in who can (Eastmond/ bring back smith)

: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:33 pm  

We been saying for ages the kicking will cost us a game one day, lets hope we have had that one day now.

: Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:18 pm  

smileysaint wrote:

Simple really.

Too many players out/ rested

Wellens, Gardner, Dean, Gilmour, Meli, Pryce, Long, Graham, Cunningham, Hargreaves, Wilkin, Flannery, Clough.
Replacements: Wheeler, Roby, Fa'asavalu, Ashurst.

3 players who barely got a look in in the team last season and no
TP, Gidley and Cayless. Long and KC having their worst games for years. Long kicked 3/6 while bradford 5/6.

We certainly need to resolve the kicking game. 50% success and not finding touch is pretty awful. If Long is not upto kicking we really should be looking at bringing someone in who can (Eastmond/ bring back smith)

I doubt Cayless would have made a differemce but we missed Gidley and Tony P for sure.