Mr Kelly : Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:53 am  

Has kelly lost the dressing room?After last nights display it appears he has trouble finding it.Mr kellys last job was defensive coach to ireland r.u.Maybe he should consider returning to the emerald isle.I for one am fed up of one man,down the middle rugby.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:56 am  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

For those wanting rid of NK, who would you wish to replace him?

TONY BENSON


I rest my case M'Lord.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:57 am  

We won't go down, but we may struggle to make the top 6 if we put more performances in like that.

Our defence is sloppy when defending in our own half but this comes on the back of needless penalties. We need to improve that area of our game and stop giving stupid penatlies away on 4th and 5th tackles and stop giving away careless high tackles away.

We struggle to get field position because we recieve the ball and start our sets on the 10m line and we end up kicking on our own 40 and Fev start their sets on their 30m line.

Our forwards didn't look interested last night - they laboured back meaning backs like Mort, Maden and Stanton were taking our first 3 tackles and that rarely gets you on the front foot.

Our play the balls are slow and we have no pace around the ruck, even when Durbin came on, he didn't attack their line enough. We didn't seem to want to 'take a chance' until the last 10 minutes, we didn't ask enough questions with offloads and 2nd phase play - when we did, we made breaks and found gaps.

We should beat Batley on Monday if we cut out the silly errors.

Oh, and it would be a massive mistake to get rid of Kelly in my opinion.

leigh v relegation : Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:03 am  

Keith Freeda wrote:

TONY BENSON

Well he had his chance with a good squad and if you read the board the Oldham fans use at rlfans.org you might be surprised.


I rest my case M'Lord.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:13 am  

Leyther_till_death wrote:

We won't go down, but we may struggle to make the top 6 if we put more performances in like that.

Our defence is sloppy when defending in our own half but this comes on the back of needless penalties. We need to improve that area of our game and stop giving stupid penatlies away on 4th and 5th tackles and stop giving away careless high tackles away.

We struggle to get field position because we recieve the ball and start our sets on the 10m line and we end up kicking on our own 40 and Fev start their sets on their 30m line.

Our forwards didn't look interested last night - they laboured back meaning backs like Mort, Maden and Stanton were taking our first 3 tackles and that rarely gets you on the front foot.

Our play the balls are slow and we have no pace around the ruck, even when Durbin came on, he didn't attack their line enough. We didn't seem to want to 'take a chance' until the last 10 minutes, we didn't ask enough questions with offloads and 2nd phase play - when we did, we made breaks and found gaps.

We should beat Batley on Monday if we cut out the silly errors.

Oh, and it would be a massive mistake to get rid of Kelly in my opinion.

Durbin doesn't attack the line enough! When he does he or we usually score

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:20 am  

WHERESYERBALL wrote:

Durbin doesn't attack the line enough! When he does he or we usually score

I agree, same with Jock. I think Stanton's non try and Rudd's try came from Jock running from dummy half and taking the ball to the line.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:30 am  

Leyther_till_death wrote:

We won't go down, but we may struggle to make the top 6 if we put more performances in like that.

Our defence is sloppy when defending in our own half but this comes on the back of needless penalties. We need to improve that area of our game and stop giving stupid penatlies away on 4th and 5th tackles and stop giving away careless high tackles away.
We struggle to get field position because we recieve the ball and start our sets on the 10m line and we end up kicking on our own 40 and Fev start their sets on their 30m line.

Our forwards didn't look interested last night - they laboured back meaning backs like Mort, Maden and Stanton were taking our first 3 tackles and that rarely gets you on the front foot.

Our play the balls are slow and we have no pace around the ruck, even when Durbin came on, he didn't attack their line enough. We didn't seem to want to 'take a chance' until the last 10 minutes, we didn't ask enough questions with offloads and 2nd phase play - when we did, we made breaks and found gaps.

We should beat Batley on Monday if we cut out the silly errors.

Oh, and it would be a massive mistake to get rid of Kelly in my opinion.

That for me is the crucial thing. it's not a 1 off, we do it week in, week out. Cost us big style last night - especially in the 1st half which I thought we pretty much dominated.

one of my biggest moans of Kelly are the interchanges, we seemed to be piling them out in the 1st half - surely that must be part of the reason as to why we keep falling apart in the 2nd half of most matches.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:35 am  

Don't think we will go down but Batley is looking like a must win looking at the run of fixtures coming up...

Halifax (h)
Widnes (h)
Featherstone (a)
Gateshead (h)
Whitehaven (a)
Halifax (a)

Think we might be waiting for that first league win at home for a bit longer though.

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:03 am  

Bolton wrote:

Don't think we will go down but Batley is looking like a must win looking at the run of fixtures coming up...

Halifax (h)
Widnes (h)
Featherstone (a)
Gateshead (h)
Whitehaven (a)
Halifax (a)

Think we might be waiting for that first league win at home for a bit longer though.

because Widnes are burning along at the moment, aren't they

: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:09 am  

ColD wrote:

because Widnes are burning along at the moment, aren't they

They're much the same as us at the minute, don't know which side will turn up.