Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:12 pm  

Joe burgess basically admitted he didn’t ground it. Oh well unlucky again and yes missed conversions cost us in the end. Improvement but not a great season unless you get to the big dance.

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:12 pm  

KR deserved that win, got no issues with it.
Tai, i like him defensively 90% of the time and he hit's like a truck. But in attack he's just miles off unfortunately. They out powered us and can't really say much more.
All in all i've loved this season, best season we've had for a long time in terms of how we've played and effort etc.
I think we need a specialist centre, 2nd row, quality half and another big bulldozer of a prop. Bullock isn't gonna come in and fill that void for the next 2 years.
On to next season now, New signings, new kit and the firework display to look forward too, 2nd year of Burgess bring it on COYW

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:14 pm  

Some strange decisions off Sam
We lost the game first half
Out muscled first half pack not big enough
Thewlis is not good enough sorry
To miss that first kick criminal cost us
And a bad decision on their second try
Why Vaughan not on earlier he only one who went forward ??
Glad c back of
Bateman taking up some one else’s shirt
And Drinkwater to
Much better season all imagined so massive steps forward
What might have been ….

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:15 pm  

It was not Josh Thewlis fault that we lost that, it's a crying shame that people are blaming that loss on him.

We played for 40 minutes only and wtf was the decision to bench Vaughan for over half the match??

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:18 pm  

Blaming Thewlis is mental, he had a great game and saved us on countless occasions when their entire game plan in attack was based on trying to pressure him.

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:21 pm  

Or thane wrote:

KR deserved that win, got no issues with it.
Tai, i like him defensively 90% of the time and he hit's like a truck. But in attack he's just miles off unfortunately. They out powered us and can't really say much more.
All in all i've loved this season, best season we've had for a long time in terms of how we've played and effort etc.
I think we need a specialist centre, 2nd row, quality half and another big bulldozer of a prop. Bullock isn't gonna come in and fill that void for the next 2 years.
On to next season now, New signings, new kit and the firework display to look forward too, 2nd year of Burgess bring it on COYW

Agree on the signings. Pack needs some more umph and imagine if we had a right wing attack... Tai showed his limitations today. That pass to thewlis was on for a good centre.

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:24 pm  

just_browny wrote:

Blaming Thewlis is mental, he had a great game and saved us on countless occasions when their entire game plan in attack was based on trying to pressure him.

No blame from me but he will be dissapointed with his kicking. One was straightforward and it cost us.

We lost that game in the middle. They smashed us.

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:25 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

Kick the goals we win the game. 1 was not difficult, the other on the touchline but we saw one nailed like that last week when it mattered.

It was in our hands.

Anyway a much better season than I was expecting.

My feelings exactly.
Goalkicking is vital, but our first half was quite frankly, average. A pathetic refereeing "decision" has cost us, but we should overcome that.

Ashton was superb tonight, and I'm gutted he won't be at the GF.

Tai, I'm sorry, but bar a few "big hits" is basically Championship level.
Drinkwater...don't let the door catch your bum on the way out.

Burgess....total respect. He's transformed this side from where we were, with that waste of atoms, Powell.

Onwards and upwards Wire.
Get the young lad Hayes back fit, and I'm VERY confident for next year

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:38 pm  

just_browny wrote:

Blaming Thewlis is mental, he had a great game and saved us on countless occasions when their entire game plan in attack was based on trying to pressure him.

I'm not blaming Thewlis
Goalkicking is a specialist job
It's something he can do, but it's only to a certain standard. We've had plenty of those kind of kickers.
For every Hesford, Woods, Davies, we've also had Rudd, Hicks, Westwood.

Although, that first miss of Thewlis was pretty poor

Re: Tonight’s match v HKR : Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:43 pm  

I'm not blaming Thewlis because it isn't his fault we haven't got anyone better at goal kicking than him in the team, but in games like that you need someone with the precision that Ratchford has had in the last few years and we had before him with Brett Hodgson. The likes of Sinfield and Pat Richards had it in the big games and we need someone who can do it.

That try before half time absolutely robbed us no matter what anyone says though. Yes, they had been a lot better than us at that point in the game, but we had held them to four points and that's a lot more surmountable than ten points, as the second half proved. Disgraceful decision.

I hope Mikey Lewis gets a Luke Gale 2017 level showing up in the final. Wigan all the way for me now.