: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:10 pm  

It was one of those games where you could pick so many faults.

We looked clueless in attack. Newton made about 80% of his passes forward and looked lazy.

Menzies made things look extremely easy, but wasn't backed up by any of his team mates when he found the holes.

Scruton looked like he was asking himself what the hell he'd put himself in for, when he laid on the floor with 10 seconds to go.

Platt continues to be poor.

We spent approx 80% of the game camped in the KR half yet only scored 13 points, that's how clueless we were in attack.

Jeffries looked like he'd spat the dummy out because of us going for Greg Bird, he was poor.

We need to buck up or we're in for a hammering against the giants.

As for the KR fans, I'd never heard as much whining with the abuse given to the ref. I think they need to go through the rule book again before spouting off.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:13 pm  

Bully_Boxer wrote:

I thought today we were let down by the half backs and our hookers. I thought Morrison did more creating than either Deacon or Jeffries today.

We had the chance to kill the game with possession but Jeffries came up with a crucial error to allow Hull KR a way back. The kicking game was generally poor, with a poor kick from Deacon being the main cause of conceding the first Hull KR try.

On the plus side I thought Nero, Morrison, Sykes, Menzies, Scruton and Burgess all looked good. Nero especially looked dangerous and caused Hull KR defence to scramble several times, hopefully he will come good this year. We looked pretty fit considering the lack of gametime but our timing was out and far too often our first pass went behind or forward!

Plenty to improve on but I expected it to be a scrappy game given the stop start nature to our season so far.

You just typed nearly everything I was thinking but add Koppy and Cook to the list of players that looked good. Now Solomona and Langley are out, probably for a few weeks if they have dislocated shoulders, then these boys and some of the other younger players in the squad get a great chance to play and show what they can do.

Very rusty and poor execution but equal amounts of this from both teams. It is encouraging just how long we spent in the Hull KR half and how much possession we had but equally as discouraging that we let them score the vital points they did with the few opportunities they had.

I think we need to stand a bit deeper when attacking too as far too many times we are playing the ball flat to players that are standing still and there is no un-obvious dummy runners running at it to confuse defenders and create gaps. Several times Morrison and Menzies did some clever running out wide only for everyone else to be either level with or in front of them so nobody to pass to.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:14 pm  

Same old meaningless pap from MacBanana on Radio Leeds afterwards.......


HEY PETER HOOD GET SOME BALLS AND SACK MACBANANA!

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:16 pm  

redamberandblack wrote:

Same old meaningless pap from MacBanana on Radio Leeds afterwards.......


HEY PETER HOOD GET SOME BALLS AND SACK MACBANANA!

One post and already using the McBanana nickname? Hello again Punisher.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:17 pm  

Block5Bull wrote:

...but some of us are looking at the stars...

None of which are in our back line.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:18 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

Erm.... Whose fault is that?

RFL I think. We had 2 lower league friendlies then a friendly against KR lined up. Reasonable preseason warmup I thought.

Everyone was rusty today. Our defensive systems looked good - although not much pressure put on them. The two tries were individual errors. Not much changed there then.

Attacking wise - Hull KR were very solid, we made rookie errors ie no-one at the ptb, passing the ball onto Scrutons head. Hopefully (please!) match practice will help with this.

Referee (and his assistants) made a lot of mistakes. Some were in our favour and some against and some were totally just wrong.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:18 pm  

No - have just been reading this site for a few months now and think the nickname is apt!

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:22 pm  

redamberandblack wrote:

Same old meaningless pap from MacBanana on Radio Leeds afterwards.......


HEY PETER HOOD GET SOME BALLS AND SACK MACBANANA!

You weren't away for long.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:23 pm  

I shook my head that much today it nearly fell off.

We were crap with a capital C.

I cant do with all this ''oh its only the first game'' bull*hit.....we were lucky not to lose big style.........HKR bombed at least 3 tries.

Try to think on the possitive side............................................Oh I cant!

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:24 pm  

Highlander wrote:

RFL I think. We had 2 lower league friendlies then a friendly against KR lined up. Reasonable preseason warmup I thought.

So the RFL are responsible for who we play friendlies against? Given that I already mentioned that we were unfortunate last week but that is a crap excuse.

The responsibility for us to be prepared for the start of the season lies with ourselves.