Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:38 pm  

bullsonfire wrote:

I bet Rohan Smith is wondering what he's taken on. We're crap and we know we are but more importantly so do the other teams. They know that they have a chance against a limp wristed set of farts.

We very often are crap, to varying degrees, but I really wouldn't mind so much if I didn't know that the players are all capable of playing like they did against Leigh. That's what I find as hard to take as anything.

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:44 pm  

charlie caroli wrote:

I didn't know his middle name began with H ,what is the H for?

It's not H it's F.

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:03 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

We very often are crap, to varying degrees, but I really wouldn't mind so much if I didn't know that the players are all capable of playing like they did against Leigh. That's what I find as hard to take as anything.

Me too, speaking as a Leyther! Why do you have to raise your game whenever you play us?

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:14 pm  

Nothus wrote:

That was the worst performance I've seen from us ever since we were relegated.

Although it wasn't great, I think you're forgetting how utterly terrible we were against Sheffield a couple of months back. To give us a bit of credit I thought the defence held up well for the most part considering how much pressure we were under in the first half. It was just our attack was particularly blunt in the first 40, and not much better in the second.

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:28 pm  

In an era where a full back is essentially a 3rd half back, you lot are effectively playing with 1. James Clare should be the best winger in the competition, he's fast, tall, gangly, his best features suit the wing , not a creative role of full back. Mathers is a full back, not a half, thus a lot of pressure on the young lad, who will be a good player but ain't gonna get you out of the slight rut you are in.

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:33 pm  

Frustrating. Angry and we have one hell of a battle on our hands now. Still think we'll make 4th. Just! Our completion was a complete disgrace in that first half. Forget having no HBs. We could have had Wally Lewis and Andrew John's in that first half and it wouldnt have made a difference if you drop it on the 1st and 2nd tackle.

Addys missed kick though. It was easy and at 14 -14 we can start thinking about drop goal. Simple kick missed AGAIN! Then we're chasing a try in the last 15 mins.
Yes we played dire but still doesn't excuse that kick which would have given us a chance of nicking something from the game. Kicking duties need to change.

Olbison Haggerty and Pitts all had shockers. I think a rest for all 3 is needed. Lumb and O'Brien need to be the interchange hookers. Addys distribution is just too slow.

Thought bringing Thomas off was a mistake. He looked more threatening than Mathers.

Massive week coming up with Workington Oldham and Batley. Batley could kill our season and we have a lovely timed mid-week fixture just before. lovely!

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:04 pm  

Is it possible that with the euphoria of Smith arriving and a decent loss last week we were starting to get too giddy about our prospects.
At a time when Smith will be making a list for targets and assessing current players this might be the best thing for us as long as it is one game. Last week possibly papered over the cracks. Today pulled that paper off and showed the full truth of what is really under it. We keep telling ourselves we have good SL quality players but they perform exactly like poor championship players. Something has to change. Either the players up their game or we actually let many of them go and bring in fresh faces and start again in November. Many of us said that the biggest danger for us in staying in the championship for too long as we will come down to their level and end up being an average championship team. Well, it has happened. We now see playing a mid table team as a big game. Our standards are now on the floor. We are still dreaming SL but actually living mid table Championship.
We can't afford to miss out on the top four in financial terms. I am getting pi$$ed of with one decent game followed by a week of nice comments in the paper and then this to bring us all down to earth.
How does a professional RL team expect to play for a season and half without a scrum half? Ferress and Lowes have a lot to answer for.
I hope Smith gives it another few weeks and then walks into Ferress's office with a list of demands that must be achieved for next season. Losing isn't a problem in sport but what we saw today is embarrassing.

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:10 pm  

There it was Rohan,all you needed to know.Hope your contacts come good,because otherwise you're looking for miracles.

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Sun Jun 05, 2016 11:01 pm  

Didn't think it could gt this bad, especially after last week. Can't be bothered looking back to who said Addy was crap but he probably made the best two clean breaks of the game. Was anybody backing up, no, and this is where we miss a good full back, for all Clares good work he's no Mullaney/Withers, perhaps Moss might be the answer, hope so. as everyone alludes, Rohan your job starts now!!

Re: Bulls vs Dewsbury June 5th : Mon Jun 06, 2016 5:57 am  

Smith has clearly lost the dressing room. Lets hope the players follow suit.