Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:20 pm  

I haven't seen enough of Rapira to make any kind of judgement on his capabilities, the biggest question is of course can he stay fit.

However! I was looking at our player stats the other day & Rapira's are actually pretty impressive for his limited gametime...They don't tell the whole story of course but gave me a bit of hope for what he could bring to the team if he stays fit.

Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:26 pm  

the red fusilier wrote: Hull squad http://hullfc.com/article/33626/miller- ... hull-squad still no carvell or paea Paea is banned so was never going to be playing, will be back for the cup game. Our pack is ravaged. In pre season our props would have been Watts, Green, Paleaasina and Paea. Green and Watts got injured, so we signed Carvell and promoted Bowden to the starting line up. Then Carvell got injured and Watts came back, Feka missed a couple of games, then Bowden got injured and Paea banned. So we moved Ellis to prop and he got banned. Even Bobby Tyson Wilson (our 7th choice prop) is injured. So now our props are Watts, Feka, Jordan Thompson and probably Jay Pitts. We don't even have the size of Tom Lineham bringing the ball off our line because he's injured too. If we had even close to a full strength pack I would be confident, as it is I'm slightly concerned.

the red fusilier wrote: Hull squad http://hullfc.com/article/33626/miller- ... hull-squad still no carvell or paea Paea is banned so was never going to be playing, will be back for the cup game. Our pack is ravaged. In pre season our props would have been Watts, Green, Paleaasina and Paea. Green and Watts got injured, so we signed Carvell and promoted Bowden to the starting line up. Then Carvell got injured and Watts came back, Feka missed a couple of games, then Bowden got injured and Paea banned. So we moved Ellis to prop and he got banned. Even Bobby Tyson Wilson (our 7th choice prop) is injured. So now our props are Watts, Feka, Jordan Thompson and probably Jay Pitts. We don't even have the size of Tom Lineham bringing the ball off our line because he's injured too. If we had even close to a full strength pack I would be confident, as it is I'm slightly concerned.

Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:08 pm  

Sounds like you've had similar injury crisis to us. We've only got Hock, Griffin, Walton and Manfredi injured now (I think).

Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:04 pm  

John Gilbert Reds wrote:

Sounds like you've had similar injury crisis to us. We've only got Hock, Griffin, Walton and Manfredi injured now (I think).

Every team will get injuries at some point, just unfortunate that we have 5 of out 7 first props and Ellis (who played prop last week) out.

But no excuses if we ambitions to better last season we still need to be winning this game at home and still have a decent side out.

Think both will be good tight games, wouldn't be surprised to see each win a game.

Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:30 am  

Looking forward to seeing the new slimmed down Feka.
Always thought if he slimmed down in a prop appropriate way ( ie maintained muscle mass but lost fat ) then you could see a very effective prop.
Top bloke too !
just hope he's not too effective in the next two games !

Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:08 pm  

when was the last time we beat hull away in the league? 1997? MARK lee playing a blinder at the boulivard on sky?

Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Fri Mar 28, 2014 5:59 pm  

Was watching the havles and outside backs train the other day and Long seemed to be working on them doing something many of us have been calling for for a good while.

We'll see if it is a tactic to be used tonight or if it for down the line when they have worked on it further.

Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Sat Mar 29, 2014 10:38 am  

Why did we wear the grey kit?
I'm sure united were right about wearing grey, our players couldn't pick each other out last night.

Re: 19 man squad vs Hull FC : Sat Mar 29, 2014 11:01 am  

Haven't won while wearing the away kit - but then never won an evening kick off game.
Can't see either changing any time soon;not before next Thursday night anyway.