sam reay : Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:18 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

Seems your reliant on a Widnes lad, young Jamie has always had talent and is a far better player than Watson who should be on the bench.

Oh for a moment I thought you had been watching Leigh games.

Watson tackles well distributes and although I,m not a fan of his place kicking, makes us play better when he,s on the field.

Durbin is an exciting prospect, however, that nomark, over the hill, , past his sell by whatsisname injury prone freeloading player who really should head home before he gets his next injury couldn,t lace the boots of any true RL professional.

What is his name ? Total Krap Lulu.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:34 am  

TV BOY wrote:

Tell you what, the way he plays and runs, he reminds me of a cross between Kenny Green and Phil Johnson.

....but twice as fast

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:45 am  

It was mentioned about Mort being 'dropped' today. He was part of an 18 man squad who missed the starting line up.

I reckon Neil Kelly wanted as much experience today at Full back as possible and so chose to stick our most experienced player there.

IIRC there was one move by haven when they broke down the East side towards the North and Donlan was faced with a 2 v 1. He held his nerve and did not commit to the man with the ball (normally being the golden rule for the full back) but bided his time and the haven player passed to his winger and Donlan nailed him good and proper (hope you can verify this Fred from your filming).This was just one of a couple of try saving tackles that Stuart made today.

Now I am not suggesting young Morty would not have made those tackles and I am indeed a big fan of his and believe he his our best kicker, however, Stuarts experinece saved our bacon today and I think his overall contribution to the victory has been somewhat overlooked.

Morty will get his chance another day as he still gains the experience he needs to add to the undoubted talent he possesses

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:17 am  

I have to agree with Leyther forever I think today we learned that we must play Stu Donlan at fullback.
He must give the team so much confidence in knowing that they have his experience behind them. A number of times today as has been said he made some try saving tackles along with coming into the line on attack.
His composure also when he went thru and turned to pass to Ridyard (ithink) showed his experience.
His only blemish was near the end but that came from a bad call to let the ball go out and he still managed to clean it up.

[Dick Jones]

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:53 am  

CANT understand why Durbin was relegated to sub and took off after he scored when he was on the field.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:06 pm  

The Leyther wrote:

I have to totally disagree with you Nozzy. IMO he was one of the poorer players on the pitch and everytime Haven attacked down his side they looked dangerous. He got switched after 10 minutes because two breaks had gone down his side and then they scored their first try as he rushed out the line. However, second half was better from him, he took the ball well from dummy half and made good yards.

agree totally his defence whilst at centre was shocking in the first 20. it was only down to poor whitehaven finishing we did not concede 3 tries.
agreed that he improved in the second half on the wing but i would not say he had a great game.
he looks very slow to me

IMO hobson head and shoulders above anybody else

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:22 pm  

Dick Jones wrote:

CANT understand why Durbin was relegated to sub and took off after he scored when he was on the field.

someone said on here somewhere he was injured didnt they?

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:16 pm  

Dick Jones wrote:

CANT understand why Durbin was relegated to sub and took off after he scored when he was on the field.

A hand injury someone said in a earlier post.

We have two very good hookers in Jock and Durbin and they will be an integral part this season.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:22 pm  

The Leyther wrote:

A hand injury someone said in a earlier post.

We have two very good halfbacks in Jock and Durbin and they will be an integral part this season.

stressful day??

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:24 pm  

actually they are halfbacks albeit acting ones thats probably why it gets hard sometimes to explain ou wonderfull sport 'the hooker goes to acting halfback and...' 'ACTS'?