: Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:10 pm  

All this talk about Watson, does anyone know how he is?

: Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:24 pm  

I heard he was alright. He needed a few stiches in a head wound but should be ok for France.

: Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:32 pm  

kirkhall wrote:

All this talk about Watson, does anyone know how he is?

Someone said on another thread he was ready to come back on but we had no subs left.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:39 pm  

I think yesterday showed how important Watson is to our side. We were clueless when he went off. Despite still having the likes of Durbin, Jock, even Marsh or Rourke on the pitch at least one of them should have taken the game by the scruff of the neck but it seemed no one knew were they were playing in relation to 6/7 and 9 so they couldn't.

Hope Watson will be ok and ready for Saturday.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:37 pm  

Leyther_till_death wrote:

I think yesterday showed how important Watson is to our side. We were clueless when he went off. Despite still having the likes of Durbin, Jock, even Marsh or Rourke on the pitch at least one of them should have taken the game by the scruff of the neck but it seemed no one knew were they were playing in relation to 6/7 and 9 so they couldn't.

Hope Watson will be ok and ready for Saturday.

Haven't been a big Watson fan to say the least, but we do look sick without him in attack. Defensively, the guy is incredible, often involved in 3 tackles per set! I think he needs runners and a good no.6.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:07 pm  

I think he needs runners and a good no.6.

May be we should go in for Briers,we need a quality 6 and Briers at this level would be quality.Might get a few extra through the turnstyles,there is a lot of doom and gloom amongst the fans but this team is not far off becoming a good side.We have not had the same side for 2 games running with injuries.Andy Hobson was a big loss yesterday and the ref gave us jack s**t as usual,penalty count was about 9 to 3.Keep the faith

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:28 pm  

mr. chairman wrote:

in todays modern game your play maker should not be involved in as many tackles as you say he is , unless the opposition are targeting him to make him tired

That is the general tactic for most teams nowadays, when we played Widnes we ran at Webster an awful lot. Watson stands his ground in defence and is a very good tackler for his size and definitely tackles above his weight.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:30 pm  

ryan wrote:

May be we should go in for Briers,we need a quality 6 and Briers at this level would be quality.Might get a few extra through the turnstyles,there is a lot of doom and gloom amongst the fans but this team is not far off becoming a good side.We have not had the same side for 2 games running with injuries.Andy Hobson was a big loss yesterday and the ref gave us jack s**t as usual,penalty count was about 9 to 3.Keep the faith

Counted it as 8-5, so it wasn't that bad - well, not 'Laughton-bad' at any rate.

: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:58 pm  

mr. chairman wrote:

in todays modern game your play maker should not be involved in as many tackles as you say he is , unless the opposition are targeting him to make him tired

they dont need to target him keith,he is always first to the tackle in the kick chase,we need a 6 and a centre.then I dont think we are far off a decent team

: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:35 pm  

mr. chairman wrote:

in todays modern game your play maker should not be involved in as many tackles as you say he is , unless the opposition are targeting him to make him tired

No its not that, its just his 'team mates' dont put the same effort in, remember this guy is usually on the pitch for the full eighty minutes! incredible player