: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:38 pm
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
Lynch cannot be criticised but seems to be carrying injuries frequently. Still, he's head and shoulders our best at the moment, Menzies excluded.
Agreed, I just hope we can hang onto Lynch, quite a few clubs should be interested in him when his deal runs out.
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
Scruton did well enough against Leeds but other than that has looked only average so far.
Suppose it's easier to look good playing for a good side as he did at Leeds. I reckon he can do better though.
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
Kopczak to me has been second only to Lynch, he has come on a lot, but he's only a youngster still and is learning.
He gets better with every week, but has still a lot to learn. Good to see him getting more gametime recently. I'd liek to see him be a bit more aggressive, he's a big lad and could do more damage if he got more stuck in.
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
Langley is a disappointment. Sure he works hard but he used to regularly break the line, go on runs etc. yet now for some reason he never does. What happened to his potential? He's the right age now, we should be seeing the best of him.
Langley does the donkey work but that's about it. Can't remember the last time he broke a tackle or gave a good pass. At least his technique around the ptb has improved a bit, he seemed to give too many penalties away last year. He needs to up his attacking game IMO because he just doesn't offer anything in that dept.
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
Solomona, well, I am a fan of his creativity and special offloads but thinking about it, Endacott I'm afraid may well have it about right. Certainly, when we're struggling as we have been for form, we need a lawn-sprinkler type of player as much as we need a hole in the head, if there is one thing above all we need now it is ball retention when we do have it. We kill ourselves, and that's a fact.
In recent weeks we've had no problem scoring tries so it's not as if we need the killer offloads. If he can't be disciplined with the ball then he should be left out. The last thing we need as you say is a "lawn sprinkler".
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
In the light of the above, the signing of Menzies, big as it was, gains in importance and significance. If you take his immense contributions to every game out, we would be in dire straits indeed.
Not every player can play top of his form every week, but we are entitled, across the board, to expect much more from our pack men than we seem to be getting.
If Burgess, Scruton and Langley find some form then we're going be fine but those three in particular need to extract the digit.
