: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:47 am  

Lets be honest. Koppy is a long way short of being a good prop and doesnt give any impact. If this spurs him on to better things then it can only be good for us.

: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:55 am  

Terry Monster wrote:

Lets be honest. Koppy is a long way short of being a good prop and doesnt give any impact. If this spurs him on to better things then it can only be good for us.

Which team have you been watching?

Bar Lynchy, Koppy has been one of our best best props this season and has turned into a very decent player from his mediocre previous seasons.

: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:00 pm  

cieranblonde wrote:

Which team have you been watching?

Bar Lynchy, Koppy has been one of our best best props this season and has turned into a very decent player from his mediocre previous seasons.

Whilst he may have improved, very decent player he is not. For a man of his size he should be making way more ground than he does.

: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:02 pm  

cieranblonde wrote:

Which team have you been watching?

Bar Lynchy, Koppy has been one of our best best props this season and has turned into a very decent player from his mediocre previous seasons.

That's going a little far. Kopczak has been ok, but he's not been a patch on Lynch or Scruton and to a lesser extent, Burgess when he's been at prop.

The only thing I will say is that I don't expect him to be at that level right now. As long as he keeps improving and doing fairly well in the meantime, I'm ok with it. He's only young and only just got in the team regularly.

: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:18 pm  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McNamara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McNamara

[Bullseye]

: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:01 pm  

Ancient Provocateur wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McNamara

Whichever genius has written that needs to at least put their entry under the right heading.

: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:19 pm  

What I don't get is why the need to put the 'they were dropped' spin into the mix?

If Jeffries and Semi were injured, then just say so and move on. Kopczak is a slightly different case as he is a young player establishing himself at first team level and was probably due a rest anyway - there's certainly no shame in that, given his improvement this year.

Trying to spin it to make out that they've all been training like demons this week - which would appear to certainly not be the case with Jeffries, as he is likely to be still injured for this weekend - is baffling

Is it to somehow bolster this idea of a united squad, who are all totally 100% behind the coaching team?

: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:05 pm  

dixie wrote:

Seriously, how does Deacon escape the drop?

Burgess has hardly been great.

nathan mcavoy handed him his compromising pictures of the coaching staff when left

Re: McNamara confident Bulls decision will pay dividends : Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:23 pm  

quote="Ewwenorfolk"]http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sportbulls/sportbullsheadlines/4504235.Axed_trio_show_desire_to_bounce_back/ That's unfair on Kopczak imo, who is one of the ones always putting the effort in. How can he criticize Jeffries when Deacon hasn't put in good performance all season? I know it says he has a niggle, but Deacon should be the one who's dropped.[/quote] To be honest i`d dropped the lot of them and start bringing in some of the young ones now, basically we have nothing to lose now. droping deacon and newton is a must from now onwards.

quote="Ewwenorfolk"]http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sportbulls/sportbullsheadlines/4504235.Axed_trio_show_desire_to_bounce_back/ That's unfair on Kopczak imo, who is one of the ones always putting the effort in. How can he criticize Jeffries when Deacon hasn't put in good performance all season? I know it says he has a niggle, but Deacon should be the one who's dropped.[/quote] To be honest i`d dropped the lot of them and start bringing in some of the young ones now, basically we have nothing to lose now. droping deacon and newton is a must from now onwards.

: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:27 pm  

TBH this seems to be all spin from McNamara. He seems to be making statements he thinks the fans want to here. Even tough it appears the three players were all injured.