Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:59 am  

In a season like this there will be disruptions and loss of players due to covid unavailability / lack of match fitness catching up with them so I'm less bothered about what it looks like, it's more about hanging in there and picking up wins.

The harsh truth which was apparent even before the season is, despite the overblown bluff that KF puts out and some fans fall for, we are not a well balanced squad that looks like a SL winning squad. There are too many positions where we have question marks and too many players who are biggish names, and who fans think are better than their performances justify.

But last year these problems were here too and we scrapped our way over the line in the Challenge Cup and beat Saints at Wembley. My main hope for us is that we can scrap enough wins to make it to the playoffs and then this year, given all the random luck that will affect this season, it is more likely to be true that "once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen", whereas usually its "once you get to the playoffs, only one of Leeds, Saints or Wigan will be left standing at the end."

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:25 am  

The problem Price has, is that his style of RL leaves absolutely no room for any excuses or sympathy for him if we end up trophyless.

If he does manage a trophy then fans will grit their teeth and accept the awful rugby as being a necessary evil. However, if he doesn't then he has absolutely nothing to fall back on and would be rightfully prone to the axe.

Personally, I think the writing was on the wall throughout the last half of last season,but , as usual, our board always appear to be the last to see what most people can see and is the reason why we are always behind the 8 ball.

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:39 am  

Above 2 posts are spot on, I think to many people have been brainwashed into thinking all is rosey, feel free to knock me down on this but I don’t Kare.

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:50 am  

Price said in his post match interview on Sky that he wanted the team to 'play more footy' and seemed pretty unhappy with our display... Seems he WANTS us to be better with our attack and we simply aren't pulling it off.

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:56 am  

WireWireWire wrote:

Price said in his post match interview on Sky that he wanted the team to 'play more footy' and seemed pretty unhappy with our display... Seems he WANTS us to be better with our attack and we simply aren't pulling it off.

There's talking a good game and then there's playing a good game??....

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:08 am  

Captain Hook wrote:

We are the rugby equivalent of unflavoured porridge. It does a job but there is no joy in it.

Thanks Mr Barrowclough, I'll try and remember to avoid watching the Wire when I finish this stretch. Don'tr forget to shut the door on your way out.

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:46 am  

The Railwayman wrote:

How many times do we have to hear ....."our attack was a bit clunky tonight" ... before the powers that be realise that Price is clueless. We have arguably the best attacking spine in SL and is being wasted. and the rest of the squad is pretty decent as well. . In the next couple of years we may lose Hill, Coops, Ratch, Austin, Widdop, Charnley, and possibly others. For goodness sake 5 drives and a "kick and hope" is hopeless.

Where are the ..... "right then, we are in the opposition 10 what do we do?. Is it code word 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ,or 10 training moves ? . Price has had what 18m to come up with ONE training ground attacking move and I have yet to see it. Every other team seems to be more creative with the ball than us. Why ?.

I agree. The move that HKR scored against us at the start of the game was a cracker. The timing was great.
It is not as if you need lots of different moves. Castleford (few years back) used to use the same few moves with Luke Gale pulling the strings on the left of the field ... and scored loads of tries.
It's all pretty simple. You do wonder a bit what exactly we do in training.

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:55 am  

You only have to compare how Charley played when he first came to us to now. Very few gaps created for the wingers to exploit. Other than ploughing down the middle I have no idea what our system is meant to be. The closer we get to the try line the less likely we are to score. It is as boring as hell.

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:14 pm  

The half backs have taken some stick BUT
Widdop: 1st Try His Kick through 2nd Try Class Finish off left foot 3rd Try Involved until got flattenned
Austin: That was a belter of a drop goal from a long way out to win game.
So pretty effective really.

The left edge Widdop/Currie/King/Lineham ... looking good.
But how our right edge with Austin & BMM isn't looking dangerous is beyond me.

Re: Huddersfield Game : Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:38 pm  

Defensively i think we've massively Improved under price, but he's added nothing to our attack and we've gotten worse since July last year. I'd be happy for Price to keep doing what he's doing defensively but we should bring in a full time attacking coach.
The Railwayman said it perfectly, i haven't seen any set attacking plays in a long time. We seem to score off lucky breaks and lucky bounces rather than plays we have in the book to break a teams defence.
It's weird that we're playing really boring crap rugby yet we keep making finals and won the challenge cup last year. It's utterly bizzarre.