Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:47 pm  

Fat lads love playing against us. Murrell last week, Smith this week. Moving Smith to 9 has killed us off.

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:50 pm  

Another injury. Keelan Foster helped from the field now.

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:55 pm  

Honestly, watching the game, I can see why Magrin has been farmed out. No disrespect to Barrow but Magrin shouldn't be beaten in contact every single time. Every tackle he has made I don't think he's been dominant once.

Young lads have been solid today. Attack needs work but looks like they want to throw it around a bit. Few offloads which is nice to see.

I think Pickersgill/Green have given Kear something to think about for the halves.

Don't think Roche is quite up to speed, give him a pre-season under us and then I'll make my judgements.

Done well to keep it below 30 so far!

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:56 pm  

Also Bustin doesn't look fit to me so maybe explains Kear dropping him.

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:05 pm  

40 unanswered second half points. Dreadful second half performance.

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:10 pm  

dddooommm wrote:

34 unanswered points. Dreadful second half performance.

Bloody hell man it's a team virtually full of kids. Barrow came out with intent and it inevitably became men against boys. Good future for plenty of those young lads though.

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:15 pm  

Blimey, it was like watching Sunday all over again. One up rugby, ineffective kicking, opposition soaked up the pressure in the first half, then screwed us in the second.
Agree about our "experienced" forwards being poor, Bustin needs a dose of army training to bring him up to fitness.

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:22 pm  

A game of 2 halves tonight. Barrow turn on the style in the second half to kill off the young Bulls. I felt it was a fairly even opening 40 mins but we fell away badly during the second half and the more seasoned Barrow players took advantage of some tired defenders.

I thought Brown looked quite handy until he went off injured. Doyle also caused a lot of problems. Tough game for the young lads.

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:41 pm  

A lot of positives to take from that. We showed up well in the first half. Barrow came out with real intent that second half and we just couldn't stop their momentum. Losing 2 players to injury didn't help the young lads either. Most of the squad will have never played at that kind of intensity that Barrow played with in the second.

Green, Scurr, Butterworth, Doyle all look like they have bright futures.

I personally didn't think Bustin looked as bad as others do. He played decent minutes in which being one of the few more experienced players (I say experienced, he's still only 21 FFS) Barrow obviously smothered him straight away. Put a few more experienced heads around him, he'll give us the go forward we're lacking at the moment IMO he's not an 80 minute grafter, he's someone who will punch holes in the defence. We have plenty of grafters at the minute.

Was disappointed with Roche.

Re: 1895 Cup - Barrow : Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:45 pm  

To be fair Roche seemed to be on most of game although I only had one eye on game to be honest