Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 12:22 am  

right said father ted wrote:

First person to bite to one of Bruce Forsyths posts wins an all expenses paid romantic meal with him and then back to his for a cuddle.

Hes here all week folks, or maybe all year...........

I like him week in week out he comes on and gives his best to try and get a bite bless him. If I've won the prize then I'd take him for a happy meal that way he gets a free toy to keep him occupied

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 12:34 am  

Bonita Red wrote:

Take Hock,Chase,Meli,Sau,Rapira and Griffin out of any 17 man match day squad and there's bound to be a problem.
Thought Walton had a big game

Rapira and Sau played tonight.Fages was better than Smith tonight and Widnes have players missing too. AhVan, Phelps, O Carroll, Lawton, Cahill and others just cant get into the team.

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 1:13 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

I'm sorry, but having decent depth means having players out and still being able to win games like vs widnes (no disrespect to widnes, but according to those very same "experts" weren't going to get close to even challenging for a top 8 spot.) The only key position you were missing was your standoff (who whilst is very good, shouldn't be the be all and end all) - if meli wasn't injured, he should of been dropped after his saints performance!

You missed hock (I only have the saints game to compare to) and with him and chase you might of looked a bit perkier - BUT they wouldn't of stopped you conceding 30+ points either.

Injuries in game were a bit of a blow for you, as they would any team, but smith was poor (you seriously need to figure out any sort of kicking game) and the rest were okay (some good moments, and 1 very good) I'm not sure there's a lot to suggest if they had remained it would of been a different result (it's not like the widnes tries were "tired" tries, they were well constructed)

This isn't the NRL. Most teams in Super League don't have a huge amount of quality outside of their regular starting 17. Before the season started we were held as some sort of lone example of a team with paper thin depth and people were using it to state that we won't have any success this season. Take 4 or 5 of a normal starting 17 out of a team and they're going to experience problems, especially when two of them are arguably their best players.

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 1:22 am  

the problem with a team containing a rangi chase-esque player is that you tend to base a lot of your plays around him (see: cas for the past 4 years) and as soon as he steps off that field/doesn't play, your game goes to hell. i hope noble isn't expecting him to create everything for you guys..

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 2:25 am  

Lets be honest with ourselves....we are slow... predictable....and if we cant beat widnes we will not have a chance against good teams.. time for change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:21 am  

Too soon to be worrying guys, not had your strongest team out and it was always going to take a while to click properly. Better that way anyway, no good starting like a house on fire then tailing off with no momentum at the end of the season. Hansen was a monster for you tonight and Fages looks quality, great for you that he will be back up when Chase is back. Lucky sods. ha

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 6:24 am  

You'll win the competition because Phil Clarke said so. At least you will do okay financially unlike Nobles ex clubs ! Buy buy buy and you won't fail.

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 6:50 am  

I thought we played okay considering the quality of players missing from our line-up. Certainly an improvement on last week, which is all I was looking for. Fifty percent after four isn't bad at this stage for a new team.

As for the armchair experts from other Clubs who only seem to appear when we lose, they were always going to happen this season. Just remember not to feed them.

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:28 am  

Have faith boys ignore most of the other fans! Its a slow working process can't just put together 14 new players basically and expect to hit the ground running! Last night we matched Widnes i thought they just were a little quicker then us around the ruck this however is a concern!

Re: Widnes on thursday : Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:43 am  

Have I missed Koukash criticising Widnes in some way in the past? Both the fans and club seem completely obsessed with him.

Best team won last night. I'd say that we only played near our potential for about 20 minutes. It's all well and good putting in some spectacular defensive hits, but pointless if the general structure goes to pieces every 10 minutes and a yawning gap opens up.